Postbuilding .NET applications? Pros? Cons?

[Marcel]

My collegues and I are considering to start working with .NET (again), but
we do not want people to learn all about the structure and secrets of our
application by reading the intermediate language (with ildasm.exe). We do
not like to use obfuscation because that messes up stacktraces in case of
error logging. It seems there are some applications that postbuild .NET
applications, including the neccessairy .NET Framework classes within the
executable and building it to traditional machine code.

Does anyone out there know applications like that (name, url?), and perhaps
share experiences with me?

Thanks, Marcel.

 

[RobinS]

I believe someone answered this in the other group where you posted it.

Robin S.

 

[PS]

My collegues and I are considering to start working with .NET (again), but
we do not want people to learn all about the structure and secrets of our
application by reading the intermediate language (with ildasm.exe). We do
not like to use obfuscation because that messes up stacktraces in case of
error logging. It seems there are some applications that postbuild .NET
applications, including the neccessairy .NET Framework classes within the
executable and building it to traditional machine code.

Does anyone out there know applications like that (name, url?), and
perhaps
share experiences with me?

www.eziriz.com, www.remotesoft.com, www.thinstall.com, www.xenocode.com

There are probably others as well. Any product adds an additional point of
failure and I have used a couple of these products and did have some
problems which required tech support from the vendor. I have also used
obfuscation products but these generally provide the ability to translate
the obfuscated stack trace back to "plain" text.

Not all products need to embed the framework into the executable to avoid
the prying eyes of a tool like Reflector
(http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/).

PS

 

[saenzcorp]

www.eziriz.com,www.remotesoft.com,www.thinstall.com,www.xenocode.com

There are probably others as well. Any product adds an additional point of
failure and I have used a couple of these products and did have some
problems which required tech support from the vendor. I have also used
obfuscation products but these generally provide the ability to translate
the obfuscated stack trace back to "plain" text.

Not all products need to embed the framework into the executable to avoid
the prying eyes of a tool like Reflector
(http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/).

PS

Read this:
http://groups.google.com/group/Reviews4All/t/59dc5a98995a713