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How to specify Dotfuscator's "inclusion/exclusion lists" on the command line?

I am calling Dotfuscator in the Post-build event and want it to encrypt string literals in my assembly. Unfortunately, it can only be done by specifying a so-called String encryption inclusion list. Is there a way to provide it via the command-line interface? I could do it in the Dotfuscator's config file, but that would require the hard-coding of a path, which I prefer to avoid. The Dotfuscator executable's location is on the PATH environment variable.

I would have used MSBuild's MSBuildThisFileDirectory property to locate the config file relative to this path, but it is not supported in .NET 3.5...

Solution

  • Adding the following sectio to Dotfuscator's config.xml fixed the problem:

    <renaming>
  <excludelist>
    <type name=".*" regex="true" excludetype="true">
      <customattribute name=".*Generated.*" regex="true"/>
    </type>
  </excludelist>
</renaming>