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Great news for small startup companies. Microsoft has launched a program called WebSiteSpark for individual developers and small web startup companies (less than 10 employees). Following are software licenses which will be given for 3 years for free 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Expression Blend, Sketchflow, and Web) 2 licenses of Expression Web 3 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of your servers) More of information at: http://www.microsoft.com/web/WebSiteSpark

If you are writing windows application in .Net you should know that your code is not secure. Using free and popular tools like .NET Reflector anyone can easy understand any part of your code. Do you still have something to do with it? Not too much. Here is articles that have good overview of problems described before: http://www.improve.dk/articles/dotnet/securing-dotnet-code/ http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/obfuscation.html http://www.howtoselectguides.com/dotnet/obfuscators/ Does .Net applications is insecure