Dotfuscator 4.6.5000 ships, includes VS 2010 RTM support and offline Runtime Intelligence

Today we shipped Dotfuscator, version 4.6.5000.  This release fully supports Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 RTM versions as well as beta support for the Silverlight 4 RC release.

In addition to supporting the latest and greatest frameworks for both obfuscation and instrumentation, this release also includes a new feature that has a top spot in our customer request list.  Up until now applications instrumented with Runtime Intelligence were unable to react to scenarios where your customers have only occasional network access so some of the application analytics data was not gathered.  By default, any applications instrumented with Dotfuscator 4.6.5000 or higher will store usage data in Isolated Storage when the application cannot send data to the configured Runtime Intelligence endpoint.  When connectivity to the endpoint is restored all the saved usage data is sent to the endpoint for storage and reporting.  In the event that the Runtime Intelligence endpoint is not accessible for an extended period of time, or that the application is used so heavily that the allocated space is filled, the injected code will remove older unsent usage data to make room for newer data.  You also have the option to revert to the previous behavior of dropping usage data when the network is inaccessible by simply changing the setting for the offline behavior as well as writing your own custom network detection code.  Additionally, you can set up your application to react to changes in connectivity either with a default implementation of shutting down the application when connectivity is lost or by having the injected code set the value of a field or property, or invoke a method of your choosing.

We also improved our support of ClickOnce application processing and fixed some bugs.  As always, changes are detailed on our change log .

There are many more changes coming to Dotfuscator, DashO and Runtime Intelligence in the near future.  Keep tuned for more exciting news as it unfurls.

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