SmartAssembly - 5.0
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Learning SmartAssembly - 5.0
Getting started
SmartAssembly is an obfuscation and error reporting tool, designed to help every .NET developer produce better software. If you have invested time in your work, you want to protect your investment and improve the quality of your software. You can use SmartAssembly to strengthen your application and handle your error reports.
SmartAssembly obfuscates your .NET code, optimizes your .NET assemblies for better deployment, minimizes the distribution size of your code, increases performance, and adds powerful error-tracking and debugging capabilities to your valued application.
You can use SmartAssembly to:
- Merge and embed dependencies
- Prune code
- Obfuscate code
- Create proxies for calls that are made outside of your assembly
- Encode strings
- Report errors
- Compress and encrypt resources
- Optimize your software
- Generate debugging information
- Decode stack traces
How does SmartAssembly work?
Once your application is compiled and ready to ship, run SmartAssembly.
SmartAssembly analyzes your application and its dependencies, guiding you through the options of the project. Based on its analysis and the options you have chosen, SmartAssembly creates a new application that has been modified to include the changes you have made. It is a quick and easy process, which immediately generates an improved application ready to deploy.
Technical notes
As long as your Assembly is 100% managed, SmartAssembly can work with any kind of Application (Windows Forms Applications, Console Applications, and DLL Libraries) created with any version of the .NET Framework (from 1.0 through 4.0).
Getting more information
- What's new in this version of SmartAssembly?
- Find out about activating SmartAssembly.
- How can I check for updates to SmartAssembly?
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Installing and configuring SmartAssemblySmartAssembly
- 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
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- 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
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- Red Gate product acknowledgements
- Activating your products
- Activating your products
- Red Gate bundle history
- Check for updates
- Troubleshooting Check for Updates errors
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- 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
