Plugin

[Ben1628]

Are we able to obsfuscate plugins that are called by the main exe?

What do we need to do to make sure the interface is visible to the main exe?

While we're on this subject, is there anyway we can embed or merge the plugin using smartassembly. Currently, the main exe is loading the dll from a directory, we would like to change it so it is loading it from the embed assembly instead.

[Paul.Martin]

You can obfuscate any pure .NET assembly, you just need to create a new SmartAssembly project for the plugin assembly and build it with the protection you want to apply.

If your plugin is a library (.dll) then SmartAssembly will leave all public interfaces, types and methods visible.
If your plugin is an executable (.exe) then SmartAssembly will obfuscate (effectively hiding) everything by default.
You can override the default behavior by using the <ExcludePublicMembers> attribute in the SmartAssembly project file (*.saproj). This enables you to treat EXE files in a similar way to DLL files.

To exclude public members from obfuscation, specify a value of '1' for the project file:

[Paul.Martin]