You need to obfuscate your .NET code because IL (.NET Intermediate Language) code contains all of the information, apart from comments, that is in .NET executable (*.exe or *.dll) files. Using a decompiler a belligerent competitor can easily reverse engineer your .NET apps. To resist this threat, it is possible to obfuscate your assemblies before distributing your software.
Skater Freeware Light Edition is free version of well-known Skater .NET Obfuscator, a .NET code protection tool. You can use Skater .NET Obfuscator Light Edition, free of charge, to protect your .NET applications for both personal and commercial purposes.
The obfuscation process bereaves all unnecessary information used by debuggers from your .NET classes. Also, class, interface, field and method identifiers are renamed to make them meaningless.
By using Skater .NET Obfuscator the obfuscation cannot be reversed.
Skater .NET Obfuscator has dual representation as a GUI interface and as a command-line tool as well. Obfuscation prevents .NET assembly source code recompilation without changing its functionality. Obfuscation deals by hooding the main points of your .NET code.
Skater .NET Obfuscator is designed to be seamlessly integrated into your build process that is why it has the command-line interface. This is done in the reliable and repeatable fashion when the obfuscation tool depends on a graphical user interface for operation.
Main features of Skater .NET Obfuscator:
Prohibits reverse engineering;
Obfuscated application usually is not recompilable;
Processes any .NET application, executable or assembly;
Encrypts string constants;
Compatible with any .NET framework (1.0 to 4.5);
Control flow obfuscation stops decompilers and deobfuscators;
Scrambles class names, method names, field names etc.;
Provides .NET Licensing features;
Implements assemblies linkage; linker unites .NET assemblies into a single dll or exe