What is DF Stack?
Dotfuscator Stack Trace is a program that lets you decode call stacks reports of programs that were obfuscated with Preemptive Dotfuscator tool.
When you obfuscate a program you change the name of all the objects and methods of your code. This is great to protect your intellectual property, but in exchange when a client reports you a typical error with the call stack that caused the error, this stack is also coded in the same way, so to fix the error you need something to decode it and get the “real” stack.
How does it work?
DotfuscatorStackTrace uses the Dotfuscator map file created when you obfuscated your program to decode the stacks easily. You just select the map file, paste the obfuscated stack and click on “Decode” to get the stack translated.
Is this feature already supported by Preemptive Dotfuscator tool?
Dotfuscator Community Edition (the Edition included with Microsoft Visual Studio) does not support this essential feature. You need to buy Dotfuscator Professional Edition to be able to translate stack traces; Profesional Edition includes many other additional and great features, but it costs $1.890. So if the Dotfuscator Community Edition is ok for you but you need to decode stack traces you can buy DotfuscatorStackTrace for only $20.
If I already have Dotfuscator Professional Edition, do I still need DotfuscatorStackTrace?
DotfuscatorStackTrace has some additional features over the stack translation tool included in Dotfuscator Professional Edition:
- Better accuracy decoding stacks: many times Dotfuscator Professional Edition is unsure about the translation and presents several translation alternatives while DotfuscatorStackTrace finds the exact stack.
- With DotfuscatorStackTrace you can view and translate several stacks in tabs
- Better user interface (Save, Load stack traces, context menu, splitter orientation, …)
- Smaller and lighter
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