Microsoft released some updates to its secure development tools. Microsoft did some very nice work with these tools. While these tools are not necessarily limited to .Net, I highly recommend that .Net developers take a look at them. http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/getstarted/tools.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sdl/archive/2011/01/17/announcing-attack-surface-analyzer.aspx

Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with Google Code Search.Obviously, it only searches "publicly accessible source code" but there is plenty of that available. Specifically, you can search within archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories. There are advanced restrict functions that [...]

This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET™ 2003. Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security enhancements made in many areas of the product. A comprehensive list of hotfixes requested by customers since the release of Visual Studio® .NET™ 2003 and included in this Service Pack can be found by [...]

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The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. – Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.– Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.– Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.– View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such [...]