C# packer

[Muji-FightR]

THX dude for your response!
But the website you told me wants to have a login name and password
Isn't it public ?

[Quall999]

The creator's site:
http://www.scottlu.com/Content/Projects.html

[Muji-FightR]

It doesn't even start !
I downloaded it from that link but it won't open !
So i ran it in a Win95 compatible mode ("Kompatibitätsmodus" in German) and it finally starts but it sais not compatible with Win98 & 95 ???!!!
I made it Win2000 compatible but it doesn't start !
What shall i do ?

i tried plenty of packers (ASPack, UXPacker, Petite, 20to4, ...) but none of them works...
Petite said "Cannot pack this exe file", ASPack has packed it but the result was a damaged .exe fiel which didn't work...
Please help me !

muJi

[caki]

Ehh man, try dling from somewhere else, cuz cexe works fine for me. I'd upload it somewhere for ya but im not at home right now

[Muji-FightR]

The question is: Does it also work with c# files ?
It will probably work for C, C++, VB, ... but i don't know if it will compress C# coded exe files... ?

[DABhand]

What you fail to realise is this.


No matter what language a program file was before, it is compiled into machine code the computer understands.

So any packing/wrapper will work.

You may have used the wrong syntax to pack the file.

[caki]

Actually DABhand,

With C# and VB.net files the code is compiled into Microsoft Intermediate Language. Then, once you run the exe a Just in Time compiler will compile the
Microsoft Intermediate Language code into native code and then execute it. Also, I think that the Just In Time compiler also checks the PE header to see if it has been changed, because if you change the PE header, the exe wont run. Since most exe packers change the PE header, the exe will not be able to run because the JIT detects these changes and wont run. CEXE packed exes, however, when unpacked do not have any changes in the PE header, thereby allowing the packed VB.net exe or C# exe to run.