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

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