Introduction to .NET Cracking

WDSM32 was one of the most popular tools for cracking in the past, after you decide to crack something you disassembled its code in WDSM32 to search for strings like "Registration successful" or "Invalid serial number !" and then you try to nop or inverse the right bytes to get the job done..

Unfortunately this tool is now history, since all the .net programs are interpreted and not compiled, you can no longer use the old techniques to or tools to crack something written with this new technology. All .net applications require the .net runtime [.NET Framework] to be installed on your machine in order to be able to run them, unlike for instance Delphi executables which you can run without any runtime needed to be installed on your pc, the .net runtime works like java virtual machine which is needed to run java executables on your PC.