One of the fundamental problems when developing .NET applications is that the code is very easy to decompile revealing valuable intellectual property. Dotfuscator helps solve this problem by helping developers make their code difficult to understand when decompiled.

Their Dotfuscator product does for .NET programs what their 2002 Software Development Productivity Award winner, DashO-Pro does for Java: Change identifiers, encrypt strings, ensnarl the flow of control and generally obscure the binaries until, while still running perfectly, they decompile into a mess the Devil himself couldn't untangle.

Obfuscation found a place in many development toolkits with the advent of Java... Now a leading Java obfuscation house is extending its work into the .NET realm. Cleveland-based PreEmptive Solutions, along with Microsoft Corp., has announced the integration of PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Community Edition .NET obfuscator into the next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET, code-named Everett.

A free community edition of PreEmptive's Dotfuscator product will be included within Microsoft's Visual Studio "Everett". This free version does not include the encryption or size reduction features of the commercial professional edition.

A stripped-down version of PreEmptive's software, Dotfuscator, which improves the security of software code, will be included in the next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, a program used to write .Net-based applications. An announcement of the partnership is expected today, Nov. 11, said PreEmptive president and CEO Gabriel Torok. Microsoft also will demonstrate its program with PreEmptive's software later this week in Las Vegas at Comdex, the country's premiere information technology trade show.

Web services may be offering a new methodology for security, but the code you use to build these services may be the most vulnerable part of the application, especially if you're using Visual Studio .Net. Web services created with Microsoft Corp.'s development platform can easily be decompiled, revealing their source code and thus jeopardizing intellectual property as well as the program's security and licensing restrictions.

PreEmptive Solutions Helps Developers Maintain the Privacy of Algorithms and Information, Provides Size Reduction and Performance Boost. If a program is worth writing, it's worth stealing. Perhaps thieves only want to reverse-engineer the algorithm so they can copy an interesting feature of the product, or maybe they want to steal the entire product by circumventing licensing or copy protection measures in the code. No matter the scenario, your valuable work and intellectual property is being taken. Dotfuscator Professional Edition from PreEmptive Solutions helps plug that hole.

The hot topic in the .NET space is protecting code. Preemptive knows how to do that - they were doing it long before .NET was public.

PreEmptive Solutions has released DashO Embedded Edition, a set of tools that permit device designers to minimize the footprint of their Java 2 Micro Edition applications, thereby reducing device resource requirements while increasing application security.