.NET-Obfuscator VS CoreWCF

I've tested a few from this list: https://github.com/NotPrab/.NET-Obfuscator

Have a look here, https://github.com/NotPrab/.NET-Obfuscator . We use Pre-emptive Dotfuscator, they have a community edition which is really good. I honestly don't understand the reason for most of the answers to your question. If you feel obfuscation will add value to your project for you, then use whatever you want. Not every project sits behind a web server.

Beyond that, there are also obfuscation utilities that can obfuscate your published code. (The public API surface remains intact to maintain compatibility, but everything under that becomes obfuscated.) There are many options to help protect your code: https://github.com/NotPrab/.NET-Obfuscator Dive in and see if any floats your boat.

The term you're looking for is obfuscation. This seems like a good roundup: https://github.com/NotPrab/.NET-Obfuscator

CoreWCF might be of some use.

You can open a discussion in the CoreWCF repo:

In the later versions you could avoid almost all the XML mess by configuring all of the settings in code. The experience is pretty close to gRPC imo, one plus point is you don't need to learn how to write proto classes. Though you could use protobuf-net for a similar experience. I'm kinda hopeful with CoreWCF, they aim to support more transports (including event gRPC) in the future along with queues other than MSMQ and slowly evolve from being too SOAP specific. There's a lot of potential still for WCF to be a transport agnostic framework that ecompass a lot of transports.

On our end, it's WCF for some servers that haven't been upgraded over. Though it seems we have a path forward for that now with CoreWCF that we're working towards.

There's ongoing work on adding generic queue support. The first two concrete implementations should be MSMQ and RabbitMq from what I recall, though MSMQ will be windows only. But the nice thing about the work is it also opens up other types of message queues for WCF (e.g. Azure Service Bus, RabbitMq, Amazon SQS etc...).

It's seems there's already design work started for a generic queue concept here. I'm pretty interested to see how it goes as well as that'll be a big part for CoreWcf to move forward as a viable choice for greenfield projects and not just a way to migrate existing Wcf projects to Core.

The ongoing .net core port called CoreWcf plans to realize that goal as a future feature on it's roadmap. Where there's plans on adding new transports that didn't exist on .net framework wcf like Grpc, Azure Service bus, Amazon SQS, rabbitmq etc...

If you hit any difficulties or have any problems, feel free to jump on the gitter channel. Details for that are in the repo contributing guide.