Does Dotfuscator CE work with CF 2

[RxRick]

Does Dotfuscator Communit Edition work with CF 2.0? If so, what is
the secret to getting it to work? My VB.NET compiled app works fine.
But after I obfuscate, all I get is an 2 second hourglass on the
device, then nothing. Thanks for any insight you have.

 

[Guest]

It should work with CF2 as long as you are using the version that comes with
VS2005. I have never got it work work even the latest versions tough.

I recomend looking at other products...

Have you tried Mangler once recommended to me:
http://www.dotnetthis.com/Samples/Mangler.htm

Also see if this link helps, contains lots of usful information and many
alternative products:
http://www.howtoselectguides.com/dotnet/obfuscators/

Simon.

 

[Guest]

I've had poor luck with it, plus it's too hamstrung (unable to use it on
signed assemblies at all). We use Xenocode internally.

 

[RxRick]

Thanks. I messed up then, because I installed their "highly
recommended" update.

 

[Arnie]

This is something from a colleage of mine who works with obfuscation ...
evidently it is a known issue w/ dotfuscator and signed assemblies so there
is a documented process to unsign/obfuscate/ and then re-sign.

-arnie

....

Dotfuscator does "unsign" the assembly by default. You can tell it where to
find the key and tell it to auto-re-strongname after it's done but I found
that it didn't always find the key. So we manually re-strong name
everything after obfuscation, via a command in hte BuildConfig script.

This is fairly well documented in Dotfuscator - how to tell it to
auto-re-strongname...

 

[LogicNP]

[SIZE=+1]As an alternative, consider Crypto Obfuscator which supports all versions of the Compact Framework and has many settings for protection and obfuscation of CF assemblies.
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