SmartAssemblySmartAssembly

Redgate SoftwareCode Protection Tools
Version 8.4.x (Nov 19, 2025)(1)

Protect your .NET applications with robust code obfuscation and error reporting.

  • Secure .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET Standard assemblies from reverse-engineering.
  • Automatically collect and categorize error reports to expedite bug fixing.
  • Merge and compress dependencies to simplify deployment and reduce size.
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.NET obfuscator and automated error reporting.
SmartAssembly is a .NET obfuscation component designed to safeguard your intellectual property by making reverse-engineering and modification difficult. It also automates error reporting to capture detailed crash information, enhancing your ability to maintain and improve applications. Additionally, SmartAssembly streamlines deployment by merging and compressing dependencies into the main assembly.

Code Obfuscation

SmartAssembly uses a range of obfuscation techniques, such as name mangling, control flow obfuscation, and string encoding, to make your .NET assemblies difficult to reverse engineer or modify, helping to protect your source code and intellectual property.

Comprehensive Obfuscation Features

It offers additional protections such as references dynamic proxy, method parent obfuscation, resources compression and encryption, and strong name signing with tamper protection to enhance security and reduce application size.

Automated Error Reporting

Built-in automated exception handling silently collects detailed crash reports with full stack traces and diagnostic data, enabling rapid identification and prioritization of issues during both pre-release and post-release phases.

Error Report Customization and Management

You can customize error report dialogs, attach files such as logs or screenshots, collect end-user contact information, and categorize reports for efficient bug triage and improved customer communication.

Dependency Merging and Embedding

It merges multiple DLL dependencies into a single main assembly and can compress and embed dependencies as resources, simplifying deployment and reducing the application footprint without sacrificing functionality.

Debugging Support

SmartAssembly generates debug symbols (.pdb files) and can decode obfuscated stack traces, allowing developers to debug obfuscated assemblies effectively in their integrated development environment.

Integration and Build Process Automation

The component integrates seamlessly with MS Build and command-line interfaces, supporting various .NET versions including .NET Core and .NET Standard, facilitating automated build and obfuscation workflows.

Supported Technologies

Protection extends across a wide range of .NET application types, including WinForms, ASP.NET, and XNA, making it suitable for diverse project requirements and target environments.

Product Compatibility

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Operating System

  • Windows Desktop
  • Windows Server

Windows Desktop Version

  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7

Windows Server Version

  • Windows Server 2025
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008