Free / Low Cost Obfuscator?

[GroZZleR]

Hey all,

I'm a small-time developer, not a huge studio. I simply can't afford
more than $100 dollars to purchase an obfuscator.

I don't own Visual Studio, I own the C# stand-alone package. This
means I don't get the dotObfuscator Community Edition (and I can't seem
to find a place to download it either).

Are there any low cost or free obfuscators for C# / .NET assemblies? I
use a lot of DLL class libraries in my code (it's a very abstract
pluggable architecture) so I need to preserve some names for my public
interfaces and such.

Thanks for your suggestions.

 

[Rob]

Here are 2 that might interest you:

http://www.dotnetspider.com/tools/ShowTool.aspx?ToolId=29

http://www.dotnetspider.com/tools/ShowTool.aspx?ToolId=28

Both of these are free, how well they work I could not tell you. But have a
look and see.

Rob

 

[Johann Blake]

A $99 version call Xemo is available. I use it and like it.

Best Regards
Johann Blake

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

As with most tools you get what you pay for. I know you say it's out of your
buget range but I highly reccommend Xenocode. It's not exorbitantly
expensive and does a pretty good job.

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[LogicNP]

Crypto Obfuscator is low priced and works well and provides good protection. It also allows you to preserve names of the public API.