Dotfuscator Reviews & Product Details

I really like to use this tool, it's easy to use, with many options to protect the source code, and a very good speed of processing.

I used it for about 5 years withouth any problem on deployment environments.

This tool really helped us to avoid the intellectual property stealing from some customers who rented the solution developed but required to install it on their own servers due security concerns.

Tech support is always kind and helpful, when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have things to add to this list, once I undestood how the software works and how the final results are generated, all my issues with it where fully solved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dotfuscator does what it says: It protects your .NET applications.

There are many features. We just use the basic code obfuscation and this works great.

Their support is very helpful if you encounter any issues or need help.

As it is more or less an industry standard product, you can find plenty of tutorials and help online. Also the documentation is very good.

Honestly, once put in place and set up, you could almost forget about it. Which is a good thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All the obvious drawbacks of obfuscation apply:

- Renaming and string encryption will take more time the bigger your .NET application gets. Luckily newer versions can be run in parallel on all of your assemblies so this speeds things up greatly.

- The obfuscated assembly that you deploy to customers won't necessarily be the same that your developers are working with. Though it happened rarely, we encountered bugs due to renaming (obfuscation) that no developer saw before a release version was built and tested.

- Production stack traces will show obfuscated code. But de-obfuscating stack traces is an integrated tool so it's not that big of a deal.

Pricing is higher than we'd like, but it's a quality product for development of professional .NET software and you get what you pay for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My initial implementation of Dotfuscator was an attempt at obfuscation without any changes to the source code. I used the Dotfuscator config editor to create the config files using the default obfuscation configuration and added those to my source. Then by utilizing the private NuGet package on Microsoft's hosted build agents for Azure DevOps, I used the Dotfuscator CLI pipeline task to perform obfuscation on-demand during deployment. It took me only a matter of hours to put things together, and after obfuscating my assemblies using Dotfuscator, 100% of my integration tests passed on the first run. Due to this success, we are pursuing the obfuscation of our mobile code using Xamarin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Be cautious when adopting the latest version, as you may need to check compatibility between the product offerings. I was told that I could just swap in a new released version without requiring any changes to my configuration or pipeline. However, the update to 6.0.1 included breaking changes to the Visual Studio Marketplace CLi pipeline task I was using. I was forced to continue using the old version of the NuGet package (4.43.3) until the pipeline task is updated and released for compatibility with the new version of the private NuGet package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I consider that the most useful is the way of writing the code that apps can be made, that the code can be protected, it protects all the main families of mobile devices, from Android and iOS to Universal Windows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have little to use it and at the moment I have had no problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We were able to protect xamarin-based mobile application easily.

Compared to other products its easier to configure specially for xamarin technology and can be simply integrated into CI build pipelines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't have any cons to share till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love the string encryption and removal features. It is great to know that my apps are protected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a bit tricky to automate between machines because of different file paths, but this won't be a problem if you have good communication with your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Normally it's difficult to trust promises made by a sales representative. They usually promise great service, great product, great features, and tons of value. To my surprise, it was all true with Dotfucator. I could not be happier with the product and the excellent support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price is higher than I would like to pay, but I can see the value for high quality product and service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fine tuning of which assemblies to group together as friend assemblies - Easier for our internal testing.

The mac build agent is a HUGE plus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing GUI configurator on Mac.

We are running all CI/CD on mac hardware, and also developing our CI/CD pipelines on Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy and user friendly. Does what it promises and integrates well. Obfuscation/encryption are more than just jumbling names. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The licensing structure was a bit hard to understand at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Control flow obfuscation is really good, really scramble the code and works out of the box. Command line tool easy to use. Obfuscation attributes easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really slow to obfuscate, but it's the case for all obfuscator I tried. Cannot include only 1 namespace to obfuscate, only possible to exclude (or didn't find how). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.