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IronWrapping Your Products

The easiest way to IronWrap a new application is to start the New Project Wizard in the License Manager and follow the steps. In the simplest case, it will take you only a few minutes to prepare, define, wrap and deploy a new package using IronWrap.

When you choose to IronWrap your product, you will define a number of settings to assist the IronWrapper in creating your protected product. These settings include things such as:

  1. License Model - which is a pre-defined logical behaviour pattern.
  2. User Interface settings - which allow you to control a multi-language distribution, and the actual UI presented to the user.
  3. Protection settings - which allows you to define a collection of protection settings for your program. For example, this includes settings such as encryption algorithm, compression, Advanced Defense System strength and many more.
  4. CodeRivets™ settings - which allow you to optionally include CodeRivets directly inside your programs code to add yet another layer of defense to protected sections of your code. These sub-sections have to be unlocked by a code exchange in order to execute.
  5. Embedded Files - which allows you to embed binary files and/or read-only data files of any kind into the IronWrapped application. These files are transparently virtualized for your application so that to the application it is exactly as if they were on disk in the expected location (even though they are not). This can add a significant protection element to the strength of your defenses.
  6. Signing - which allows integrated signing of the output using a standard digital signature. The IronWrap system can even be set to dynamically self-check to ensure the wrapped application has not been tampered with.
  7. Host Settings - which of course allows you to define the root installation directory of the program you are protecting as well as the host itself.

Once you have configured these options just hit the "Compile" button and let the IronWrap system do the rest.

IronWrap features only come with the IronWrap Edition of  SoftwareShield. Our Free Software Evaluation includes IronWrap for you to try.