Microsoft Corp. and PreEmptive Solutions Inc., the leader in obfuscation, size reduction and optimization development tools, today announced the continued integration of the PreEmptive Dotfuscator® Community Edition into Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005. By providing obfuscation tools in the box, PreEmptive and Microsoft will provide developers writing code that will run on the Microsoft .NET Framework with an extra layer of protection against reverse-engineering, or decompilation. This integration enables organizations to make code-level security part of their overall software development life cycle. The Dotfuscator Community Edition will be distributed with the beta and commercial releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, significantly widening its community of users. Dotfuscator is available both in the box with Visual Studio 2005 and from the MSDN® Web site for download by MSDN subscribers.