Unsupported .NET Constructs

You can protect and implement licensing for any kind of .Net assembly. However, methods with the following constructs cannot be transformed in Code Protector:

• Autoproperty Initializers (in C# 6)
• Exception Filters (in C# 6)
• Generic methods or methods on generic types (see Generics support in Software Potential) for more details of Generics support).
• Implicit and explicit cast operators
• Init Property Initializers (in C#9)
• Methods with async / await keywords
• Methods with out or ref parameters.
• Methods that invoke other methods with out or ref parameters.
• Methods that modify a method parameter, even if the parameter is defined as a “by value”.
• Methods with too many local variables or parameters (> 254).
• Methods that contain calls to
  • Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
  • Reflection.MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod(), or
  • Reflection.Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().
• Methods that attempt to obtain a mutual-exclusion lock before executing a statement or code block, using either the lock keyword or the Monitor.Enter()/Monitor.Exit()pattern
• Non-static methods of a structure.
• Top level Statements (in C#9) - cannot protect a top level statement but can call protected code from top level statement.
• Unsafe code – For example, in C#, methods that contain the keyword unsafe typically cannot be transformed.