Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Visual Studio includes two command-line shells for developers, a command prompt and an instance of PowerShell, as follows: -**Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt**: A standard command prompt with ...

Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

A Key storage Provider (KSP) library is important in signing ClickOnce manifest with Visual Studio when you require a greater level of key protection and a state of the art cryptography. I have ...

Bypass and Autopilot both suppress manual approval prompts. Autopilot is also designed to answer blocking questions automatically. In testing, that was the clearest visible difference between the two ...

A new pair of malicious Visual Studio Code extensions capable of harvesting screenshots, browser sessions and stored credentials has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. The extensions, ...

REST based Client library and PowerShell module for managing Service Fabric clusters and applications. We recommend installing Visual Studio 2022 which will set you up with all the .NET build tools ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in ...

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ...

Security researchers at Trend Micro and ReversingLabs have uncovered two fresh campaigns targeting red teams, novice cybercriminals, and developer environments via trojanized open source hacking tools ...

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero. Microsoft VSCode is a ...