Lutz Roeder's Reflector Is Magic

'blameMike' on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:09:45 GMT, sez:

When I first ran it against my company's flagship product, my response was quite similar to your colleague's.

That's when I gave obfuscation a serious look.

'secretGeek' on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:33:54 GMT, sez:

too right Mike. my colleague then started looking into obfuscation as well.

we decided that for a lot of the bespoke work we do, obfuscation isn't required.

a shrink-wrapped product is a different kettle of fish, of course.

but even then (as others keep saying) your only real defence is that big puffy cloud of nonsense known as the legal system. or barry to his mates.

for really special secretive algorithms, the best option is to host them on your own servers and let the apps call them via web services/remoting/rpc. but this is not all that convenient ya'know.

obfuscation is powerful stuff, but nothing compared to a truly messy developer.

cheers
lb

'Ryan Farley' on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:43:06 GMT, sez:

No doubt, reflector is "da bomb". Can hardly go a day without loading it up!

-Ryan

'tool' on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:21:23 GMT, sez:

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Others:

NDepend
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log4net
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NAnt
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WAST
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/itsolutions/intranet/downloads/webstres.mspx

Windows Application Verifier
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/appcompatibility/appverifier.mspx

'Angus Logan' on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:59:37 GMT, sez:

As I am said colleague, please don't bleep my swear words!

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