Tools

RADAR is a memory leak detection technology built into Windows 7 and integrated with Watson (error reporting) and AutoBug (automatic bug filing). It allows Microsoft product teams and third parties to discover and fix memory leaks early in the product cycle and after release. Since RADAR runs…

CHESS is an automated tool from Microsoft Research for finding errors in multithreaded software by systematic exploration of thread schedules. It finds errors, such as data-races, deadlocks, hangs, and data-corruption induced access violations, that are extremely hard to find with…

InnerWorkings is an independent software company whose mission is to help developers learn to write better code faster on the .NET framework. Developers learn by solving real coding challenges and getting instant feedback on their solutions in Visual Studio.  An online platform supports the…

PreEmptive Solutions produces the Dotfuscator and DashO instrumentation and obfuscation product families and the Runtime Intelligence application analytics service. With more than 3,000 corporate clients, 40,000 registered installations in 100+ countries and inclusion with Microsoft’s…

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team recently released two new security tools, BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fuzzer, to help you write more secure code. Jeremy Dallman, Michael Howard, and Ivan Medvedev created these tools so we decided to pay them a visit to…

Mark Wilson-Thomas joins John to announce the launch of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! Mark shows off several impressive, new features in the Visual Studio 2010 designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF development. Some key new features that are covered include:…

Anil Revuru (RV) from Microsoft Information Security, gives a demonstration of the new version of CAT.NET (Code Analysis Tool for .NET) version 2.0.  It is a static analysis tool that uses the Phoenix Compiler and its data flow graph. Anil walks us through the dataflow rules and how it…

Maqbool Malik and Anil Revuru (RV), from Microsoft Information Security, talk about the newly designed version of CAT.NET which will be part of the Assessment & Protection (A&P) suite.CAT.NET is a static analysis tool on Visual Studio that helps find vulnerabilities like…

Anil Revuru (RV), from Microsoft Information Security, walks us through the expansion of what used to be the Anti-XSS Library. This enhanced version of the library will introduce mitigation to other attacks like: SQL Injection Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Setting…

Anil Revuru (RV), from Microsoft Information Security, walks us through a configuration verification tool that will be part of a suite of tools that will help you assess your code as well as protect it. For more info watch the Assessment & Protection (A&P) Suite video.WACA is…