Interesting bit of news in the .NET code protection niche: http://www.pr-inside.com/red-gate-acquires-smartassembly-r1463604.htm
Thoughts? On Aug 13, 6:56 pm, Cerebrus <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used it... specifically the v. 3.0 Community edition which is > provided with VS 2005. > > Personally, I found that in order to tame it down to a free "Community > Edition", they disabled the most important features, thus rendering > the whole Obfuscation thing toothless. The lack of these features > makes the process of obfuscation a joke because the CE only does basic > renaming of types. > > Some features which I felt were sorely missed were : > > a) Generics support > b) String encryption > c) Integration with VS. > > Additionally, they make sure to provide the full fledged UI (while > disabled) which can make it confusing for a newbie until he/she "gets > it". I've used a lot of Shareware in my time and the conventional way > is to provide a different UI for trial versions. Either way, it should > be clear that "this feature is only available in the xx version." > > Due to these reasons, I haven't really "used" it... just experimented > a bit with it back in 2006. > > On Aug 13, 1:44 pm, BK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Have any of you tried the community version of dotfuscator that comes > > with VS? > > > Likes, dislikes? > > > Any recommendations on a code protection/obfuscation tool? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > -BK
