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Microsoft adds runtime intelligence, anti-tampering features to VS 2010

By David Worthington

October 27, 2008 — Developers who create applications using Visual Studio 2010 will have more control and visibility into what happens after their software ships.

At today's session of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions will jointly announce new code instrumentation capabilities for Visual Studio 2010. All editions of the development suite, with the exception of the freeware Express entry, will ship with Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE).

Dotfuscator has shipped with Visual Studio since 2003 to protect source code from being reverse-engineered. But the new version goes quite a bit further by instrumenting .NET applications for tracking feature use, enabling time limits on application use, and detecting and defending against tampering. It can also stream alerts and runtime data to Web-based services.

Developers can deploy tamper-detection logic that forces the application to terminate as a consequence of unsanctioned use, said Sebastian Holst, chief marketing officer for PreEmptive. Likewise, a built-in expiration date can be enforced. PreEmptive sells a Dotfuscator solution that provides for custom defensive actions and a tampering-notification service.

Dotfuscator CE can track usage information and stream it to an endpoint uniform resource identifier for any cloud service, said Holst. A free runtime intelligence service is available but is not suitable for service-level agreements, he added.

The information can be used for customer experience improvement programs and business performance metrics. Runtime environment statistics can be streamed into customer relationship management services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server extensions and Microsoft Operations Manager packs for increased management of internal systems, according to the company.

Dotfuscator is fully integrated with Visual Studio, where its presence “democratizes” code instrumentation, said Holst. While companies like Microsoft have instrumented their applications to improve quality for some time, it is a difficult undertaking for the typical developer and thus is not a common practice, he said.

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