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Since its inception in 1991 as one of the first third party Visual Basic component vendors, Desaware has lead the way in developing innovative software products to assist developers in their programming efforts. Based on experience going back to the days of Windows 1.0, we understand the critical features needed by developers, sometimes presenting a solution before developers are even aware of the problem (as in the case of VersionStamper - a tool which solves the "DLL Hell" distribution problems).

Desaware's products deploy advanced technology to reduce our customers' costs. Our customers have told us that VersionStamper has paid for itself within days of their product's deployment. Our NT Service Toolkit reduced the cost of developing NT services from weeks and months of time by high end C++ programmers to hours of time by Visual Basic developers - with no compromise in capability. Our SpyWorks package does the same, allowing VB and .NET developers easy access to lower level features in Windows.

Our new StateCoder product for .NET dramatically improves the reliability of applications, components and services that make use of the multithreading and asynchronous features of .NET. Forthcoming .NET products will continue in this tradition.

Our customer base ranges from independent contractors to Fortune 50 companies, all of whom have found that by using our products they can dramatically reduce time to market and provide more features to their customers than would otherwise be possible.

21. Introduction to NT/2000 Security Programming with Visual Basic - eBook - First Edition

Publisher: Desaware Product Type: Book/Documentation

NT Security is a subject that is intimidating, to say the least. But if you dig past the confusing acronyms, you’ll find that it’s actually very easy to understand. This article, based on the author’s well received talks at VSLive, will help you get started on the right foot with NT security, and give you the foundation of knowledge you’ll need to understand even the most obscure security concepts. It will also introduce you to techniques for adding security based features to your applications (with an emphasis on Visual Basic applications). View More
22. Visual Basic.NET or C#? Which to Choose? - eBook - Third Edition

Publisher: Desaware Product Type: Book/Documentation

Visual Basic.NET or C#? Which to Choose? In this new E-book by best-selling author Dan Appleman, you will find an in-depth comparison of the two languages. In a feature by feature, head to head contest, Appleman pulls no punches in calling the winner in each case. View More
23. Obfuscating .NET - eBook - First Edition

Publisher: Desaware Product Type: Book/Documentation

Did you know that you ship your complete source code any time you distribute a .NET assembly? One of the consequences of the architecture of .NET is that a great deal of information about an assembly is kept with the assembly in a part of the file called the Manifest. Obfuscating .NET is an eBook that explains the information that makes it remarkably easy to not just recompile the assembly, but to decompile it, make modifications, then recompile it. While such reverse engineering has always been possible, it is extraordinarily easy with .NET - a situation that is a significant problem to anyone distributing .NET applications or components who is concerned about protecting their intellectual property. View More