Project fails to perform obfuscation and merging when SmartAssembly is run via Visual Studio

rick105

We have around 10 executables that we are obfuscating during the Visual Studio build process all but one succeeds resulting in .NET 8.0 dlls that have their dependencies either merged or embedded into the resulting dll. The one that is not working appears to run just fine through Visual Studio and does not produce any kind of error message. When I look at the obfuscated dll after completion using ILSpy it has not been obfuscated nor have any of the dependencies been merged or embedded. The resulting dll produced by SmartAssembly is just a copy of the non-obfuscated dll that was used as the source assembly, they are the exact same size. If I obfuscate using the SmartAssembly UI, then SA produces an obfuscated dll with all dependencies either merged or embedded into it as expected. I have log files from both runs and ILSpy output images from both runs that I would be more that happy to send you. I can also send the SA and C# project files. We have been using SA for years for and have just converted out .NET apps from Framework 4.8 to .NET 8.0. Never had this issue in the past. Like I said the other apps in out suite obfuscate just fine. All the apps have the same code in their project files for performing the obfuscation step.