Dotfuscator for Silverlight Application

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Visual Studio version = Visual studio 2010 premium

as we all know silverlight application generate .XAP file if we change extension to .ZIP we can get all dlls which is use in Application and Application Dll also if we use reflector and disassemble the dlls file user can get the code . i want to protect this kind of stuf.

can we put Dotfuscator in between the process of build and generate xap file

Build (generate dlls) -> Dotfuscator -> generating XAP file

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silverlight-5.0dotfuscator

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The best way to obfuscate Silverlight applications is to build the XAP package and then run Dotfuscator on the XAP file itself(ie, use the stand-alone GUI and add the XAP file to a new project). Note that this requires Dotfuscator Professional Edition.