C# Code Minification Tools and Techniques

Question

I realize this is a rather odd request, but I was wondering if anyone was aware of some minification/obfuscation tools that work on C# source code (not a compiled assembly). I am trying to reduce the character count of an already written application to meet a character limit and I can't seem to find any tools that will help me achieve this task.

Main features I am interested in:

• Strip Whitespace
• Shorten Variable Names

It doesn't have to be a full on obfuscator, just something that will reduce the character count of a block of code quickly and conveniently.

This is not intended to have any practical or real world application, it's for a competition.

Answer 1

I think this is a pretty much a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/350705/do-you-have-any-tips-for-c-minification

Answer 2

I am not aware of any such tool, but it would not be too hard to do some variable renaming using the built in refactor tools in Visual Studio.

For the whitespace, a regex find-replace, to replace any multiple spaces (:Wh+ in VS replace) with a single space.