Fishery

If your clients have high-speed Internet access, another option available is to make them Web services. Clients can access the assembly’s functionality, but they can’t get the physical assembly itself. Also, if a bug did occur in your assembly, fixing the offending code means that all clients get the fix at one time.

Of course, there may be situations where this is not feasible. For example, if you were writing a high-performance graphics engine to compete with DirectX, you probably don’t want the method invocations to occur over HTTP. However, if you know that you must protect your resources, then keeping them off the client’s machine may the safest way to do so.