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If you've been in the .Net Dev space for any time, you've probably heard of Dotfuscator. But what you might not know are the people behind it. I've been dealing with a number of them, from Sales to Support, and every single time I come away happy. They are not a company that takes their money and runs, instead continue to look for ways to help use it, use it better and improve their communication (and of course, their products!). Even when you submit what you think is a bug, and instead, it's that you are doing it wrong (not that that ever happened to me ;), they are professional and above all, friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I guess the "downside" of Dotfuscator is the number of options and configuration settings available. It's almost too good in that respect. That said, I wouldn't change the number of options, but maybe put a Dotfuscator for Dummies wizard in front for the first times... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dotfuscator is an amazing 'multi-purpose' piece of genius (e.g., includes software protection and hardening services for developers, architects, and testers), so it's hard to choose what I like best. However, our team's most pressing need was directly related to securing devices to detect if our application is running on a rooted Android device. If so, terminate and/or respond to sessions on these devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We didn't hear about it sooner! A lot of time and effort would have been saved had we moved quicker to secure this product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fairly new to development, but we love the offline functionality above all. It's great in a web-based world to have seamless transitions into an offline machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've not encountered a dislike yet as we're just getting started, which is a great thing when a new user and a new product combine forces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 without 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 to 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 understood how the software works and how the final results are generated, all my issues with it were 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.

Secure obfuscation of JavaScript source code and provides much flexibility for specific features and constraints when obfuscating code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation could be somewhat better and is sometimes vague on the individual features of specific obfuscation settings 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 aspect is the way of writing the code that allows apps to be made, ensuring the code can be protected. It safeguards all the main families of mobile devices, from Android and iOS to Universal Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used it little and so far I have had no problems. 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.