What needs explaining, Reflector isn't open source, Lutz decided to obfuscate to protect his IP. Fair game.
Kev
2008-08-15 14:04:06
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I'm curious what product he uses to obfuscate Reflector. Or maybe it's his custom solution - he obviously knows tons about IL.
kokos
2008-08-15 14:24:13
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Are you allowed to reflect it according to the EULA (if any) ? I would guess not, and not surprised that you can't.
Peteter
2008-08-15 15:03:04
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It's always been the case that its been obfuscated. It was one of the first things I tried with it years ago ;).
Campbell
2008-08-15 15:35:47
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I'll accept Keith's answer, but he's 180 degrees off. Its ironic that the tool used to peer at the source of assemblies is obfuscated.
Also, I'm suprised how serious some of you are. Lighten up! What are you, cobol programmers?
<-- (edit: Maybe some of you are!)
Will
2008-08-15 16:55:53
I'm laughing so hard right now...
Maxim Zaslavsky
2009-10-28 04:26:56
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It may have been obfuscated by tools such as Xenocode or Dotfuscator. Or as someone said, Lutz may know a lot about IL.
Vincent
2008-08-16 02:48:30
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I think you have your answer right here: Reflector sold to Red Gate
Yaakov Ellis
2008-08-20 19:13:25
no, actually Reflector was obfuscated like that from the beginning. It has nothing to do with red gate.
Marek
2009-12-16 15:26:02
Well, it might: Lutz Loeder might have thought since the beginning he would try to make some money off Reflector, and therefore kept the code secret.
Qwertie
2010-05-21 21:23:53
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Of course, I did. For example to find out that .NET Reflector is obfuscated with Dotfuscator.
Christian
2010-02-03 13:51:16
Interesting. I wonder if this is RedGate's doing. I mean, Dotfuscator. I don't remember seeing this way back in the olden days when I first reflected reflector.
Will
2010-02-03 14:44:53
@Will: I just checked out Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector 5.0.25.0 (still available from Softpedia) from the beginning for 2007, and it was already obfuscated with Dotfuscator.It's especially interesting that RedGate's still using Dotfuscator for .NET Reflector, although they have their own .NET obfuscator {smartassembly} (http://www.smartassembly.com/).
Christian
2010-02-03 15:18:22