PreEmtive Solutions announced that it now has support for the Windows Phone 7 variant of Silverlight for its Dotfuscator product. Dotfuscator will obfuscate ones XAP file by renaming the elements within it. While this doesn't make the assembly impossible to reverse engineer it does make the process more difficult. For some one attempting to reverse engineer your code their decompilation tools will still work but will produce something with less meaningful names. There is a cognitive component to reverse engineering and obfuscation interferes with that component of the process. More information on the product can be found on PreEmptive's site.
Original Story: WmPowerUser.com
Tags: Windows Phone