I have personal experience with PreEmptive Solutions DotFuscator. With a price tag of around $2,000, it costs more than many of its competitors, however, it is top of the line when it comes to obfuscation. There are many advantages to obfuscation from a performance standpoint, the main one being that with obfuscation renaming you usually get a smaller file size and functions are addressed faster by the runtime due to smaller method names. Of course if you use string encryption/decryption, it may balance out the performance gain. Most professional obfuscation software will integrate into the Visual Studio build process so that you never have to leave the IDE (unless you want to). Obfuscation will prevent the large majority from attempting to tamper/reverse-engineer your code. It is not a fool-proof way of stopping it though. My opinion is that as long as you sell more of your product than the cost of obfuscation software, then it's worth the cost. It will stop the majority of those attempting to invade your code.

- Pero Matic -

It's available the link is just not yet posted. You can download the final release of firefox 3 right now right here: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US[^]

- Pero Matic -

Pretty sure. Your "deleted" article has 6 screen shots and a lot of oriental symbols, correct?

- Pero Matic -

Chris, I am still able to see that gentleman's article. I am having a similar issue with my own article.

- Pero Matic -

Thank you very much :)

- Pero Matic -

Do you know where can I find that email address?

- Pero Matic -

I am still able to access the code through the link even though it was deleted :confused: I guess I will make sure to write the article first and then upload it :)

- Pero Matic -

Yea I'm kinda wondering about that myself. I noticed the article was deleted but people can still download my code. I guess I need to re-upload it along with the article :doh:

- Pero Matic -

Thank you for your response Fernando. I do not think that is the case though. The issue I am experiencing is that I do not have the option to edit or delete an article available on the "My Articles" page. I am unable to make any type of modifications to my existing article. I do not see an option to edit or delete the article at all. It seems bizarre to not allow an author to make modifications to his own articles no matter what state of review the article is in.

- Pero Matic -

I just submitted my first article to the code project. I uploaded the code but have not written the article yet, so only the template is displayed for the article. It can be found here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WF/DateSite.aspx[^] At this point in time I am unable to edit or hide or remove the article. This concerns me in that I am receiving very low ratings for an article I did not intend to submit and do not have the ability to make modifications to. Is this indeed a bug or am I missing something? thanks in advance

- Pero Matic -

I am wondering how to do this as well. Using the CodeProject help, it states that there is a link in the "My Articles" section that allows you to perform such actions, however, I do not see it.