Agile.NET

Agile.NET is a tool designed to help you protect your code against anyone who may want to copy it partially or fully. The tool can mask method names, implementation, user string, resources or library calls without affecting the behavior of the app in any way.

The idea behind the utility is to rename all metadata constructs along with the methods of implementation and string values of the assembly. The result is an unreadable char scheme that transforms them to unprintable Unicode chars. Even with complex decompiling methods, it is going to be difficult to understand the source code.

More often than not, during the obfuscation operation, you can encounter some issues when you use the reflection API. You will be happy to learn that the app supports the standard declarative obfuscation attributes of Microsoft and hence, you can still define the class and methods that you want hidden. Even though the source code is unrecognizable, the assembly continues to function the same.

It is worth mentioning that the tool works with all .NET technologies available, from WinRT to XAML, WPF, XNA and Click One. Consequentially, you should not have any problems with compatibility regardless of the framework you are employing.

Moreover, according to the developer, the tool can seamlessly integrate MSBuild and NAnt and hence, you should not have any issues obfuscating the code that is used solely as part of an entire range of complex build scenarios.

Agile.NET is a comprehensive, yet easy to use utility that provides you with a secure way to protect your code. Even though the behavior of the code remains unchanged, it is hard to understand as it has been processed into a virtual opcode that can only be read by a secure virtual machine.