The software giant plans to announce on Monday that a plug-in created by security firm Sanctum, scheduled for release in March, will be the first to easily integrate with Microsoft's development platform Visual Studio .Net. The tool, AppScan Developer Edition 1.5, can be run on Web applications in real time to catch common programming flaws.
"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."
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