This past Monday we released a significant update of Dotfuscator. After introducing BAML support in 4.7.1000, we are proud to announce that starting with version 4.8.1000 you can now also obfuscate embedded XAML resources, allowing significant improvement in protecting Silverlight applications.

I recently worked with a UNIX security expert setting up a small pile of servers. We hired him to handle the total system security of the servers as those servers would be charged with storing highly sensitive customer data. In fact, the vendor for this data had very strict requirements as to how we were allowed to store this data. The requirements (something similar to PCI Level I) were dictated in a 40 page document where one of the rules literally required a monitored camera to be shining directly on the primary database server at all times.

This is the first in a series of what I hope to be informative postings around the theme of “Dotfuscator Tips, Tricks, and HOWTOs”.  Today's topic, if you missed the title, is MSBuild integration. Dotfuscator Pro ships with an MSBuild task that is by default installed into the MSBuildExtensionsPath directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\MSBuild) under “PreEmptiveDotfuscator4.0”. In this directory, you will also find PreEmptive.Dotfuscator.Targets, the file that contains a common definition for the “Dotfuscate” target.