The fine print… Visual Studio 2015 users who register Dotfuscator CE (already inside Visual Studio 2015) will receive immediate access to the recent white paper, Application Protection. Why bother? AND receive a credit to open one (1) support ticket with PreEmptive’s product support team any time in (you guessed it) 2015.
So, you think you might want to protect your applications against reverse engineering and tampering sometime in the not-too-distant future? Perhaps inject feature monitoring? Register your copy of Dotfuscator CE NOW to:
a) “bank” a credit to open a support ticket at no cost to you and
b) to download a white paper that just might give you the insight you need to answer whether your app needs protection (and no, the answer is not always yes).
What’s the catch? Other than the requirement that you register with your company’s domain email—and that the support credit be used before the end of 2015—there are no catches.
How do you register? Open up Visual Studio 2015 (any version other than Express) and open Dotfuscator from the tools menu. Once in Dotfuscator CE, click the “Register now” link on the first screen (as illustrated below).
Fill out the form (be sure to use a valid business email address), and you’ll be sent a link. Your support ticket credit will be secured.
Who would use Dotfuscator CE to obfuscate their applications? We don’t know! (Unless you register – but we still don’t see what you’re doing) We collect some anonymous usage information, assuming you first opt-in (distinct from the product registration)—but even then, we collect no PII (your registration on our website does NOT change this). For insight into how Dotfuscator CE is used in VS 2015, check my earlier post, Visual Studio 2015 Dotfuscator CE Adoption: the first 500 users.
Are these users doing anything serious with Dotfuscator CE? We can’t be sure, but what I CAN tell you is that among the first 1,000 unique users of Dotfuscator CE 2015, users were obfuscating applications with as many as 44 unique assemblies and 3,145 classes—and these Dotfuscator CE 2015 users’ applications were targeting .NET Assembly Runtime Versions 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, and (of course) 4.5.
What are you waiting for? Register for Dotfuscator CE 2015. We haven’t decided when we’ll discontinue this offer of free support (seriously), so don’t wait until it’s too late.