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 ...

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Microsoft this week shipped one last minor update for .NET 7, which is no longer supported as of May 14. Because of the company's scheme of annually alternating .NET releases between Long Term Support ...

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 ...

When launching an installed app, we face an error – To run this application, you must install .NET Core – which stops us from launching that particular app. The ...

20 years of .NET: Microsoft’s Scott Hunter on the developer platform’s “amazing journey” Your email has been sent It’s 20 years since Microsoft delivered the first full release of .NET and its suite ...

.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 ...