This article demonstrates how to use Dotfuscator which is shipped freely with Visual Studio 2010 to protect. If you are using this tool for the first time, you will be presented with a License agreement. After accepting the license agreement, you can also register this product to get access to free updates and online support.
On the Dotfuscator UI, right click on the project and click ‘Add Assemblies’ and add an assembly of the project you have created
Once the obfuscation process is completed, you can examine the obfuscated assembly using ILDASM. ILDASM is a disassembler utility which comes with the .NET Framework SDK and allows you to decompile .NET assemblies into IL Assembly Language statements. To start ILDASM, go to Visual Studio Command Prompt and type ildasm. Then select the assembly to browse. Here’s a comparison of the same assembly, before obfuscation and after obfuscation
Observe how the method and property names are obfuscated. The obfuscated version makes it difficult to understand what a method or property is doing. You can even open a method to view the IL code. Here’s a comparison of the IL before and after the obfuscation:
