December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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16.4 Preventing Reverse-Engineering of Your Code with Dotfuscator
Your code is a valuable asset that you’ll want to protect if competitive advantage, trade secrets, and intellectual property (IP) rights mean anything to you. Unless you take steps to prevent them, disassemblers can quickly reverse-engineer your compiled binaries back to source code, meaning your code can be compromised. Fortunately, Microsoft recognizes this problem and bundles a free (though basic) tool with Visual Studio to introduce you to the solution to this issue. That tool is Dotfuscator Community Edition, from PreEmptive Solutions.
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Tool | Dotfuscator Community Edition |
Version covered | 3.0.2005.16132 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Performs basic obfuscation on .NET assemblies |
License type | Freeware |
Online resources | FAQs, knowledge base |
Supported Frameworks | .NET 1.1, 2.0 |
Related tools in this book | ILDASM, Reflector |
Getting Started
Dotfuscator Community Edition is included with Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. Upgrades offering numerous additional features are available; see the web site for details.
Using Dotfuscator
Your compiled .NET assemblies aren’t really compiled, in the traditional sense, to machine language. Instead, they persist in Microsoft Intermediate Language until the JIT compiler compiles ...
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