Abstract: The DotNetToJScript (DTJS) project, released in 2017, established an impressive technique for reflectively loading .NET shellcode using Windows scripting languages like JScript and VBScript.

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

A new FileFix attack allows executing malicious scripts while bypassing the Mark of the Web (MoTW) protection in Windows by exploiting how browsers handle saved HTML webpages. The technique, was ...

.NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's 2024 Build developer conference, it provides a set of ...

The .NET Community Toolkit is Microsoft's latest dev tooling to get native ahead-of-time compilation, continuing a years-long push for that capability across the board. Native AOT (sometimes NativeAOT ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

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Event ID 1026 indicates that the problem lies with the application itself and Runtime error 1026 associated with .NET Framework mainly occurs when the framework fails ...

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.NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

Microsoft risks burning all of its good open source work Microsoft risks burning all of its good open source work is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

Microsoft has updated the security baseline for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (formerly Office 365 Professional Plus) to include protection from JScript code execution attacks and unsigned macros.