SmartAssembly - 6.7
Using SmartAssembly with Silverlight
The process for using SmartAssembly with Silverlight applications is similar to the process for other types of application but you should be aware of the following point:
Silverlight .xap files are actually ZIP archives containing a manifest file (.xaml) and the required code, which is compiled as .dll files.
When you choose a .xap file in the project settings window, SmartAssembly reads the XAML file, and locates the DLL that is designated as the EntryPointAssembly.
SmartAssembly treats that DLL as the main assembly. You can prune code from it, merge and embed dependencies and add error reporting code to it, in the usual way.
When you build the assembly, however, SmartAssembly will build the complete .xap file.
Some of SmartAssembly's features will not work with Silverlight applications due to technical limitations in Silverlight. The features which will not work are:
- tamper protection
- references dynamic proxy
- compression and encryption of resources
- strings encoding with improved protection
- prevent disassembly of the resulting IL
- reducing the amount of allocated memory
- feature usage reporting
Because Silverlight applications are compiled into DLLs, public members are automatically excluded from obfuscation.
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System requirements
Working with projects
Setting project options
Using SmartAssembly for obfuscationUsing SmartAssembly for error reportingUsing SmartAssembly for feature usage reportingUsing custom attributes
Configuring SmartAssemblyBuilding assemblies with SmartAssemblyAcknowledgements
SmartAssembly
- Using Smartassembly to obfuscate a windows service
- Obfuscation not renaming identically-named methods in different classes
- Serialization exceptions occurring in obfuscated assemblies
- SmartAssembly skipping obfuscation of some classes in your assembly
- SmartAssembly is not merging or embedding all assembly dependencies
- Can I customize the path to the MDB database?
- System.InvalidOperationException when attempting to connect to local SmartAssembly database
- Protecting website code using SmartAssembly
- Visual Studio Deployment Projects including unprotected builds
- SmartAssembly MSBUILD tasks failing because of difference in log4net assembly
- SmartAssembly Error Reporting: This application has submitted too many reports
- The assembly is being merged, but the dependent assembly isn't
- ERR 2002: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction
- The error report is not associated with a valid project ID - SmartAssembly
- Application built with an evaluation edition of SmartAssembly
- How end users can change their participation in Feature Usage Reporting
- Log file for SmartAssembly
- Moving SmartAssembly to another computer
- 'Using JET databases is not possible in 64-bit applications' error when using MSBuild or TFS
- SmartAssembly stack trace is invalid when Method Parent Obfuscation is enabled
- Upgrading SmartAssembly version 4.x to version 5
- Upgrading SmartAssembly Standard to Professional
- Problems building WPF applications with SmartAssembly 6.7
all products
- Some Red Gate products identified as containing a trojan by Anti-Virus software
- Activation may fail with Unknown Error -1
- Product uses web help although a CHM file is available locally
- Argument exception resulting from missing environment variable
- Check for updates may fail when used through proxies
- 'Unidentified Publisher' error when repairing or uninstalling
- Licensing activates product as standard edition
- Moving Red Gate software products to another machine
- Red Gate tools log locations
- The application UI opening slowly when there is no internet access
SmartAssembly
all products
- Red Gate product acknowledgements
- Activating your products
- Activating your products
- Red Gate bundle history
- Check for updates
- Troubleshooting Check for Updates errors
- Current versions
- Deactivating your products
- Installing Red Gate products from the .msi file
- Requesting additional activations
- Serial numbers for bundles
- Reactivating using a different serial number
- Extending your trial
- Finding your serial numbers
- Moving a serial number from one computer to another
- No response received for manual activation
- Licensing and activation resources
- Licensing and activation resources
- Troubleshooting licensing and activation errors
- Licensing and activation FAQs
- Red Gate tools log file locations
- Download old versions of products
- Download product prerequisites & utilities
- Support & upgrades
- Upgrading your software
- Upgrading FAQs
