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

Obfuscate It: Thwart Reverse Engineering of Your Visual Basic .NET or C# Code -- MSDN Magazine, November 2003: "One of the advantages of the .NET architecture is that assemblies built with it contain lots of useful information that can be recovered using ILDASM, the intermediate language disassembler. A side effect, though, is that someone with access to your binaries can recover a good approximation of the original source code. Here the authors present program obfuscation as a way to deter reverse engineering. In addition, they discuss the different types of obfuscation technologies available and demonstrate the new obfuscation tool that is included in Visual Studio .NET 2003."