SmartAssembly

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by Yeorwned.com | Thu 3:04 PM

Every obfuscation software suite I have tried has failed to work with WPF/BAML applications without spending some time to make exclusions. Smartassembly performs these tasks right out of the box! The evaluation edition worked extremely well and was quite fast. There is not any annoying popups built into the products created by the evaluation while the trial has not expired, which other more expensive products inserted, breaking my application.

The interface is extremely clean and simplified when you just want to get something tested in a timely manner. While you cannot easily configure the protection using the interface to a low level degree, there is an API which you can use with your compiler to flag different functions as a type to do such a task.

The product also supports encryption of resource files, which many other products completely ignore as strings inside a resource file are constant and thus ignored. The product also features enhanced error reporting but I did not evaluate such during my evaluation.

by MikeRow | August 24 2009

Excellent technical support and guidance for tuning to specific program requirements. Highly recommended.

by pathurun | August 20 2009

It is the best one out there. I have tried using a few but i was surprised at the support and not satisfied with the products also. The support by {sa} team is also excellent. If you are serious about obfuscation then you gotta get {sa}.
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by Sundar - Binarymission | August 04 2009

This is one of the best obfuscator tools i have ever used.

The product does exactly what it claims to do in their product page. The features are superb, especially the resource encoding of WPF XAML/BAML, and the injection of incorrect metadata.
As far as i know, there is absolutely no other tool that does this in the market, for the kind of price this product sells for.

Above all, their support is very very impressive, which is the most important aspect to consider when you buy software.

Well done, {SmartAssembly} team. Nice work, and keep it up.

Cheers

Sundar

by Bart-Rennes | April 27 2009

Product works fine and is easy to use. Before to order i tested the support request and got a response in less than 1 hour! Great just what i was looking.

by kalitte | April 20 2009

If you need an obsfucator, {SmartAssembly} is great. Usage is simple and you can integrate it with the build process. We just use it and it is doing its job.

by Abadisoft | April 06 2009

Really i found full protection of my software with {smartassembly}

by Pavel Urbančík | April 03 2009

Like all "protections" of this kind, it fails miserably, it is only matter of minutes to strip it from any assembly.

by Unknown1123 | April 01 2009

Excellent product, excellent price, and believe it or not, excellent support!

by Merich10 | March 16 2009

We tried nearly every .NET obfuscation product that we could get our hands on (all those that offered trial periods, anyway) and SmartAssembly was the *only* one that didn't break the software product we used it on. This is true despite the rather complex layering our product's various components. Support has also been exceptional, both before and after our purchase. Highly recommended!

by claytonjames | March 09 2009

We tested a variety of obfuscation tools before purchasing smartassembly. The user interface is easy to use and the support we received has been excellent. smartassembly uses a number of techniques to make your code more secure and allowed us to customise our obfuscation to suit our products.

by Unknown4123 | March 08 2009

SmartAssembly does a fantastic job of securing our products and optimizing them for better assemblies. Their error reporting service allows for speedy pin-pointing of bugs which means faster patching to meet out customer's needs. SmartAssmebly is highly recommended!

by l3igmike | March 02 2009

We've been using this product for over a year and it has been great. It has a user friendly interface; An easy to use command line tool; And, the support is above par. Anyone looking to find a solution to better protect their intellectual property should seriously consider this product.

by sarcdeveloper | February 10 2009

{smartassembly} is a great solution for both securing and optimizing your .Net Framework assemblies.

by waynewalter | January 17 2009

After the review at http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/smartassembly/ and remarks by pro "crackers" on reverse engineering sites, we tried {smartassembly}. It turns out that it really exceeds the reviews. Our specific challenge was obfuscating only one assembly out of several in the project which are open source. This particular assembly was challenging because it has an external API and also calls out to custom assemblies. {smartassembly} was fully automated at discovering what to obfuscate and what to leave cleartext. The resulting executable passed all the automated test suite and generate clearly illegible code in a Reflector. When you turn on certain features, some reflectors can't even disassemble the DLL. For the questions submitted, the support staff answered immediately. You really must try out {smartassembly} vs. the others.

by Yury_A | January 12 2009

We just recently switched from DotFuscator Community Edition to {SA}. So far I'm very pleased with the product. The support is great also. I had to wait for 3 days for a reply from Preemptive, but it took only 30 minutes to receive a helpful reply from the SA support team.

by John Lueders | December 29 2008

SmartAssembly is the only obfuscation program that worked for our .Net 2.0 application. (We tried CodeVeil, Spices, Dotfuscation, and Skater.) Starting off, the interface is intuitive. It is also very flexible allowing us to do custom 'pruning' of some of our exposed classes that we need to appear in property grids. Also, with their latest version 3.2, the program is not readable by Red Gate's .NET Reflector by checking 'I want to add incorrect metadata stream' in section 7 'Other Protections'. Excellent program and very fast response time with emails. This program is highly recommended for anyone who wants to successfully obfuscate their .Net application(s).

by lkaliakatsos | December 24 2008

We just finished the alpha release of our new software. This new software, currently named Plex.Earth, consists of a windows program (AutoCAD plug-in which interacts with Google Earth) connected to a web application for calculations execution.

The above features demanded an extensive research for the best obfuscation and software optimization program available, which could handle easily and securely both the windows program, the interactions with 3rd party libraries and, of course, the web application.

{smartassembly} was the one that accomplished the task at the maximum of quality/our efforts to reverse engineer our work lost in space, at the minimum of time/straightforward user interface and best learning curve, at the best of price/simply divide the price with the above.

by Mongoose1 | December 18 2008

Are you in need of obfuscation? Do you need to hide 3rd party dll's from your competitors? Do you need to prevent Red Gate's .Net Reflector, IL Disassembler and many others from seeing your companies code? Then look nowhere else. This does it all.

{smartassembly} has 2 ways to handle assemblies; merging and packing. Pack the dll's into your exe and it makes for easy distribution.

by TomSam | December 17 2008

If you are searching a tool which makes your .Net assembly unreadable then you should definetively look at Smartassembly. They don't have only just a good product. The support is more than excellent.

by nader alkhatib | December 01 2008

Smart Assembly Rocks.
2 Years and Counting of Using Samrt Assembly obfuscation, you will be amazed and excited for the power of qulaity and ease of use. Try it, it worths. click here http://www.smartassembly.com/
1- Strength of obfuscation 5/5
2- Ease of use 5/5
3- Save Settings 5/5
4- Speed 5/5
5- Exception Web Service 5/5
6- Overall feature set 5/5

by JDBarclay | November 17 2008

This is a very practical and easy to use software, while doing a great obfuscation and optimization job. I have used it to secure and optimize my .Net Compact Framework assemblies. 100% recommended!

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