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Stop VBA Code Theft — Compile and Protect Your Excel VBA Code - Tutorial
13:09Step-by-step tutorial showing how to compile your VBA code into a secure, encrypted DLL using VBA Padlock. Learn to remove your source code from the Office file entirely, generate the VBA Bridge, create wrapper code, publish the final DLL, and distribute your protected Excel workbook.
Chapters
- 0:00 Why VBA password protection is broken
- 1:45 Step-by-step tutorial begins
- 1:53 Opening the source Excel file
- 2:48 Launching VBA Padlock Studio
- 3:12 Entering project information
- 3:36 Pasting VBA code into the compiler
- 3:57 Compiling the code
- 4:11 Viewing the generated DLL files
- 4:47 Creating the VBA Bridge
- 5:44 What is the VBA Bridge?
- 6:17 Injecting the bridge into Excel
- 6:49 Testing the protected code
- 8:06 Compiling real Excel code (Application object)
- 9:22 Hot reloading — instant updates
- 9:40 Generating wrapper code automatically
- 10:33 Verifying everything works
- 10:57 Publishing the final DLL
- 11:27 Distributing as a ZIP archive
- 12:29 End-user test — the macro works!
- 12:55 VBA project is locked — code is protected
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