What do you call an obfuscator that isn't an obfuscator?
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SmartAssembly, formerly {smartassembly}, version 5 is now available as an Early Access Build. You can get it here:
http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewforum.php?f=116
We're having second thoughts about the name change though. It isn't that we like the curly brackets, far from it. The trouble is that the first rule of product naming is to name a product by what it does. SmartAssembly may make an assembly smarter, but that's not something people really google for.
The trouble is, I can't think of a better name for it.
That's because SmartAssembly really does two completely separate things:
- Obfuscates
- Sets up your assembly for the awesome exception reports which get sent to you whenever your application crashes. You may have been (un?)lucky enough to see one in reflector if you use it.
This is what those exception reports look like when they arrive back with the developer:
Look at all those local variables! If you ask me, this is much cooler than the obfuscation.
So obviously we don't want to call it just "Red Gate Obfuscator" or something, because it doesn't do justice to the exception reporting.
What would you call it?
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