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Karen - 30 Jul 2004 08:06 GMT

Can we encode the VBScript in Outlook forms so that people cannot read the
source code?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 30 Jul 2004 13:56 GMT

No. If you want to protect functionality, a form isn't the place to do it.
You might consider building some of your functionality into a COM add-in.

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> Can we encode the VBScript in Outlook forms so that people cannot read the
> source code?

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Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 30 Jul 2004 14:36 GMT

No, the best you can do is set a password on the form but that's not very
secure and can easily be cracked in code using the Outlook object model.

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> Can we encode the VBScript in Outlook forms so that people cannot read the
> source code?

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Trevor Lowing - 31 Jul 2004 02:24 GMT

No, but you can obfuscate the code to make it a pain in the but to
understand:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=vb+obfuscation&spell=1

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=vbscript+obfu
scation

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> Can we encode the VBScript in Outlook forms so that people cannot read the
> source code?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 31 Jul 2004 04:30 GMT

Just curious: Did you have any problems after using an obfuscator with
Outlook form VBScript code?

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> No, but you can obfuscate the code to make it a pain in the but to
> understand:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=vb+obfuscation&spell=1

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=vbscript+obfu
scation

> > Can we encode the VBScript in Outlook forms so that people cannot read the
> > source code?

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Karen - 02 Aug 2004 04:07 GMT

Thank you very much!

> No, but you can obfuscate the code to make it a pain in the but to
> understand:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=vb+obfuscation&spell=1

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=vbscript+obfu
scation

> > Can we encode the VBScript in Outlook forms so that people cannot read the
> > source code?

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