News and Events Press Releases Comprehensive Support for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
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Dotfuscator Professional Edition Protects and Enhances Microsoft .NET Compact Framework-based applications for mobile devices; Transforms Microsoft .NET Compact Framework applications into the smallest, fastest MSIL executables available
New Orleans, LA - MDC 2003 Booth 315 - March 19, 2003 PreEmptive Solutions, a leading provider of advanced obfuscation tools giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction, today announced comprehensive support for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework with Dotfuscator Professional Edition. Dotfuscator examines an application and determines what classes, methods, and fields are required for a given application to run. The resulting applications contain only the classes, methods, and variables your application needs to run. This size reduction is particularly valuable when developing applications for mobile devices with limited memory space. "PreEmptive's Dotfuscator is a critical component of our .NET Compact Framework development strategy," said Gent Hito, president & CEO of /n software inc, a leading provider of Internet components for Windows CE and other platforms. "It not only provides first class protection for our intellectual property, but most importantly, it delivers significant reductions in the memory footprint of our components, a must in embedded development where memory, power consumption, and cost are closely interrelated." Although some aspects of Dotfuscator Professional Edition's algorithms could be considered compression, most of Dotfuscator's abilities are better described as size reduction. Dotfuscator removes unneeded elements from assemblies. This includes classes, methods, instance variables, design time metadata, and actual MSIL. In addition, renaming to small names also reduces size significantly. The combination of all these factors makes Dotfuscator a benchmark for Microsoft .NET-based application size reduction. Many of the elements within Dotfuscator take unprecedented steps towards faster, smaller, and harder-to-decompile Microsoft .NET-based applications. Dotfuscator will continue to mature with even more transforms to extend its current abilities. It combines a mix of well-known and novel algorithms that enable customers to produce the best Microsoft .NET applications possible. "The ability to optimize applications for mobile devices with limited resources is paramount for developers," said David Rasmussen, lead product manager for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "The .NET Compact Framework was designed to provide everything developers need to build mobile applications and nothing they don't. Microsoft is pleased to see PreEmptive provide this valuable tool to the developer community to help them protect their IP and substantially reduce their application size." Dotfuscator Professional Edition 1.2 benefits include superior intellectual property protection, decreased application size, and better program performance. Dotfuscator Professional is designed to stop even the best of decompilers from producing useful output. Dotfuscator Professional Edition includes advanced features that provide strong code protection and size reduction for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET applications. All of these are important to the Microsoft .NET developer, but decreased application size is crucial in the mobile device arena. "If you are delivering .NET applications targeted for mobile devices where application size is a concern, then you should be using Dotfuscator Professional Edition," says Bill Leach, CTO of PreEmptive Solutions. "Dotfuscator works by removing unnecessary constructs from your application and shrinking all that is left, producing a compact and efficient executable. Wouldn't you rather be using the space to add more features?" Availability:
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