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# nbox | ||
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NBox is the utility which can help to simplify deployment of your Application, minimize load time when it starts at | ||
executing, minimize the cumulative size of Application and hide your Application code from quick decompilation | ||
by tools like Reflector. | ||
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You can merge several dependency assemblies into a one executable file. Result assembly will be 100% managed. | ||
Also you can embed any file into result assembly. It can be a native module (dll), or configuration files | ||
(config, xml), or any file that you need. This content of result assembly will be extracted on loading time into | ||
directory that you can specify. | ||
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You can select the kind of register your dependency. There are three ways to do it : | ||
* File (assembly will attempt to load dependency from separate packed file, usually placed near than result assembly) | ||
* Resource (assembly will be loaded from resources) | ||
* Overlay (in build time the packed dependency assembly will be appended to the end of result assembly file) | ||
* App.config file. If you have a configuration file, you can specify it explicitly. And NBox will unpack and configure your application during starting | ||
even if executable file will be renamed. | ||
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You can straightforward automate the build process because there are no command line arguments set, | ||
there are only NBox.exe and your configuration file. | ||
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NBox is compatible with many obfuscation tools like {smartassembly}. If you use tools like that, you can make the 2-level obfuscation : before NBoxing and | ||
after them. Result assembly will be 100% managed, compressed and obfuscated. | ||
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NBox uses LZMA algorithm applied in popular archive manager 7-zip (http://7-zip.org) so it produces the | ||
minimal size of output assemblies and provides high decompression speed at run time. |