Microsoft gives coders a bug-catcher
Microsoft will be announcing on Monday, a plugin by security firm Sanctum which can be easily integrated with Visual Studio.Net and will help catch common programming flaws in real time.
"The cool thing with the integration with Visual Studio is that, because it's there in your face, you run it early and you run it often," said Michael Howard, senior program manager for Microsoft and the author of the company's textbook on secure programming. "You can find issues before they get far down the development path, before they become expensive to remove."