Hide variables from other programmers

[Bigbass]

How do I prevent other programmers from viewing the values of class variables I have written?

I would like other programmers to use a string property like MyPWD, but not allow them to see the value of MyPWD when they debug.

 

[Bigbass]

I forgot to mention I'm using .NET

 

[Mastakilla]

you might want to use write only properties then.


example:

public MySecretClass

private _myPassword as string
Public WriteOnly Property MyPWD As String
   Set (Value as string)
      myPassword = value   'plus add some of your validation   code
   End Set
End Property

End Class

[\code]


Hope this helps, somehow.
Cheers

 

[Bigbass]

Thanks for the code, but not quite what I'm looking for.

Say myObject.mypwd is a string with a value. I want them to be able to assign value of that string to another string, but now allow them to see the value of the string.

I think I'm asking for something that can't be done.

 

[jbenson001]

I think I'm asking for something that can't be done.

Yep, pretty much. You can use version control to control who can edit certain pages, but if they have access to the page, you can't hide varialbes, controls, etc from the developer.

JIm

 

[chiph]

If you're using .NET v2.0 (VS.NET 2005), you can use the SecureString class, which encrypts the string as soon as you assign to it. If you put this into a property which only has a setter operation, this might be good enough for you.

You might also want to investigate code obfusticators, which manipulate your MSIL bytes to make decompilation more difficult.

Chip H.


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