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Obfuscation of Your .NET Application Code

Developers find themselves in a situation in which they have to secure code through Obfuscation — a term that is defined as "technique to complicate code so that they are hard to be reverse-engineered". Although .Net assemblies are the easiest to be hacked, on a lighter note, someone also said: "The only things that hackers […]

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Jun 1, 2011
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Developers find themselves in
a situation in which they have to secure code through Obfuscation — a term
that is defined as "technique to complicate code so that they are hard to
be reverse-engineered". Although .Net
assemblies are the easiest to be hacked, on a lighter note, someone also said: "The
only things that hackers don’t get are the comments!"

Start the obfuscator service and add assemblies that you need to obfuscate

Visual basic developer
center
also hosts a series of videos in this regard.

Thanks for reading!

References:

Obfuscated code

Thwart Reverse Engineering of Your Visual Basic .NET or C# Code

Dotfuscator Software Services in Visual Studio 2010

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