C# Winform Application Publish with Obfuscation

Question

I just finished to build Winform application and i want to send it to couple of people for testing.

I'm using CefSharp in my application and i want to publish it with ClickOnce but i want to make it harder or impossible to de-compile, From what i understand the best option is to do code Obfuscation.

I saw that there is existing tool in VS2013 - DotFuscator. This tool is enough? there is any other suggestion to keep my code safe as possible?

Notice that there is a list of .net obfuscators on stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/60054/1480104 — Artem Razin, Feb 20 '19 at 07:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '19 at 21:00

Every protection can be hacked, so there is no universal answer if some tool is good enough protection for your project, it depends how much time and money you expect someone to invest in hacking the app. Saying that, DotFuscator in VS2013 offers just a basic level of protection (which is kind of expected as it has the paid version too with more features).

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C# Winform Application Publish with Obfuscation

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