Microsoft Unified Communications Web API announcements
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Documentation for the Unified Communications Web API (UCWA), a web API that is part of the new Lync 2013 release, is available at http://ucwa.lync.com/documentation/what-is-lync-ucwa-api.
You can go through the fully interactive demo and sandbox by just visiting http://ucwa.lync.com
Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development announcements
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- Benefits of getting desktop apps certified for Windows 8
- Learn how to use the Windows App Certification Kit
- How to list a desktop app in the Windows Store
- App submission checklist
- What’s new in the SDK
- The Compatibility Cookbook: Tips on getting your app compatible for Windows 8
- Compatibility Center Update the compatibility status of your app or add apps
For questions about certification policies, contact the Certification Support Team
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Windows 7 Application Remediation Services are now available to assist software developers and corporate customers with application compatibility issues. Microsoft wants to ensure customers resolve application compatibility issues related to code remediation or general compatibility with Windows 7. If you are a software developer, Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) ISV, or corporate customer who is deploying software on Windows 7, you may take advantage of this program in the following ways:
1. Online support and resources at:
a. MSDN
b. TechNet
c. MPN ISV Online Technical Communities (MPN partners provided a response within 8 business hours from Microsoft)
d. https://www.isvappcompat.com/
2. Premier customers may request a Windows 7 Application Compatibility for Enterprises Workshop through their Technical Account Manager. Premier Field Engineers are also available for on-site identification and remediation of issues through Application Compatibility services. In some countries, the workshop is being made available for open enrollment events as well.
3. Use your Premier, or Professional Support agreements (or Pay Per Incident) to open paid service requests with Microsoft Support. Our support teams will assist you through shim development, debugging code or leveraging XP mode to resolve application compatibility issues. You may open a service request by using the following resources: Phone (800) 936-4900 - Premier Support, Professional or MSDN Support.
4. In addition, MPN Partners can leverage Technical Sales Assistance, Technical Advisory Services, and Break-Fix Support benefits by contacting the Global Partner Support team. To do so learn more at MPN Partner Technical Support Benefits and MPN ISV Online Technical Communities
BizTalk Server General announcements
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Sample based on integration with SalesForce using SOAP is available in code gallery through this link.
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This article is intended to be a knowledge base of all Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions documented, by community members, in all stages/components of BizTalk: different stages of development, deployment, adapters, runtime, setup and configuration… Read more here
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You will find many BizTalk Server related article on TechNet Wiki. Best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
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Through the internet you can find numerous tools that can help you for instance in automating deployment, analyze your BizTalk environment or identify performance issues. You will find these tools on Operating System, Codeplex or Microsoft Download Center. Read more here.
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Live Connect announcements
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The Microsoft account team will need to make a change that will affect the way that registered applications process tickets. All you have to do is upgrade to the latest SDK and the ticket handling will automatically be updated. For more information please see this page : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=242807.The change is scheduled to take place on Monday 5thMay, so please make sure that you update before then – users may experience problems with repeated sign-in when requesting consent for your application if you don’t.
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Live SDK v5.4 is now available for download. New additions to this version of the SDK include:
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Windows Store HTML and XAML applications. Version 5.4 of the Live
SDK was updated for compatibility with Windows 8.1 Preview and Visual Studio
2013 Preview, including new behavior specific to Windows 8.1 Preview: For a
user not connected with a Microsoft account, invoking WL.login in JavaScript or
LiveAuthClient.LoginAsync will trigger the process to connect the user with a
Microsoft account. Also specific to 8.1 Preview, for users who are not
connected with a Microsoft account, calling methods on LiveConnectClient to
access user data will result in a reject response.
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Windows Phone 8. This update contains several fixes for the new
WP8 SDK, including a fix for a login session cache issue that could prevent a
user from logging in with a different account after logging out. Additionally
resolved in this update is a caching issue in LiveConnectClient.UploadAsync
that could lead to additional app memory consumption and less accurate progress
event data when uploading large files. As a result, larger files can be
uploaded on lower-memory devices than was possible in the past.
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.NET client and ASP.NET apps. The Live SDK v5.4 Nuget package has
been updated with support for .NET 4.
- Live SDK for iOS apps. Several UI issues related to login in the iOS 6 SDK have been resolved.
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Windows Store HTML and XAML applications. Version 5.4 of the Live
SDK was updated for compatibility with Windows 8.1 Preview and Visual Studio
2013 Preview, including new behavior specific to Windows 8.1 Preview: For a
user not connected with a Microsoft account, invoking WL.login in JavaScript or
LiveAuthClient.LoginAsync will trigger the process to connect the user with a
Microsoft account. Also specific to 8.1 Preview, for users who are not
connected with a Microsoft account, calling methods on LiveConnectClient to
access user data will result in a reject response.
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Last year, we announced that support for Messenger will end in 2013. Apps that already use Extensible Messages and Presence Protocol (XMPP) will continue to be supported until October 2013. We strongly discourage any new implementations relying on XMPP. Instead, we encourage you to learn more about our APIs for SkyDrive, Hotmail and Skype at http://dev.live.com.
The documentation for XMPP and messaging has been removed from the Windows Dev Center and archived. This info will not be updated and might contain links to content that no longer exists. But you can still find the XMPP topics here if you need them:
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Live SDK v5.3 is now available for download here. New additions to this version of the SDK include:
- New .NET SDKs for client and server. Since we first introduced the Live SDK, we have seen a lot of developers ask for a .NET library that would work for classic desktop apps and ASP.NET applications. With this release you can now create applications that target traditional desktop scenarios and as well as server side scenarios. With the client .NET SDK, you can create WPF, Windows Form or console applications that let your users use their SkyDrive data. With the ASP.NET SDK, you can create websites and web server components that talk to the Live Connect API service. Using the SDK also makes it easy for you to incorporate Microsoft account into your identity system or even just use Microsoft account as your primary identity system. Be sure to check out our Build talk “Powering your apps with Microsoft accounts” below to learn more about it.
- Windows Phone 8 SDK. The WP 8 SDK takes advantage of some of the new features that Windows Phone 8 has to offer and provided you with an easy to use programming model by supporting the new Task<T> async pattern and dynamic keyword. With this you can easily move your code between your Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 application.
- Open source projects for Windows and Windows Phone SDKs. Starting from v5.3, all Live SDK client components written in C#, Objective C and Java are released as open source projects. This makes it much easier for developers to resolve problems quickly and build solutions that are tailored to their scenarios. Be sure to check out our gibhub depot for new additions of the Windows and Windows Phone SDK source code.
- New samples and starter guides. New samples for Windows and Windows Phone are added as part of the open source Windows SDK projects. We also have an updated starter guide for Windows Phone 8 and a new one for Windows 8 and Asp.Net.
SkyDrive REST API enhancements - we have added the ability to search for files in a user’s SkyDrive by using a partial file name. You can do this by simply making an HTTP GET call with the search parameter 'q'. Here is an example:
GET http://apis.live.net/V5.0/me/skydrive/search?q=expenses
The response contains the list of files that have “expenses” in the file name.
Windows 8 Sign-in control deprecation - Starting with Live SDK v5.3, the sign-in control is deprecated from the Windows 8 C# and Windows 8 JavaScript SDKs. Instead, apps should follow our guidelines for implementing the sign in experience for Windows Store apps using HTML/Javascript and Windows Store apps using XAML.
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When we shipped the Live Connect API service 5.0 April last year, we included the functionality to allow an app to provision applications on behaves of other developers. This functionality is enabled if the app has permission to use the wl.application and the wl.application_create scope. Application information can be access through the https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me/applications path. After observing the usage pattern of this API for more than a year, we have concluded that this API does not fit into the user model and the design goals of the Live Connect API, whose primary objective is to provide developer access to user’s data stored in Windows services, not a platform to auto provision applications. With that, we’re now announcing the plan to decommission any APIs that are related to application provisioning through the Live Connect API service, which include all calls to the https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me/applications path and its sub-paths. These APIs will stop working in March 2013.
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We would like to inform you of about the changes to the OAuth 2.0 SDK. We have transitioned the OAuth endpoints to https://login.live.com. This change is to move our OAuth 2.0 authentication service to be on the same backend as our primary login infrastructure. It will give increased scalability and reliability to our OAuth interface and also add some security features like invalidating refresh tokens if the users are detected as compromised or has changed their password.
The https://oauth.live.com endpoints will continue to function but with slightly increased latency so we recommend you begin using the new URL’s.
The new endpoints are:
- authorization: https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf
- token: https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf
- desktop: https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf
The old end points are:
- authorization: https://oauth.live.com/authorize
- token: https://oauth.live.com/token
- desktop: https://oauth.live.com/desktop
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This forum is monitored by Live Connect Support and Product Group team.
Hours of Operation: 8:00AM – 5:00PM US Pacific Time (Monday – Friday)
We do not provide any support over the weekend (Saturday-Sunday).
Thanks!!!
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Check out our open source depot on github: https://github.com/liveservices/
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With the release of v5.0 of the Messenger Connect API, the previous version is now deprecated. As mentioned in the v5.0 announcement blog post, the latest version of the Messenger Connect API is the result of taking into account a lot of the input from developers about how to simplify the API and address key limitations we had in the previous version.
The v4.1 API will continue to function and will be supported for one year after the release of the v5.0 API. New applications are strongly encouraged to use the v5.0 Messenger Connect instead of the deprecated v4.1 API. It is also recommended that when you upgrade or modify existing applications avoid using and remove usage of the v4.1 APIs.
Below is a list of v4.1 features that will no longer be supported in new applications with the release of v5.0 of the Messenger Connect API
- The v4.1 API provides the ability to publish activities using activity streams to a user’s Messenger Social feed. We received significant feedback from developers and end users that this functionality is not complete because it doesn’t set the Messenger status field and is thus not visible in the user contact list nor in mobile or previous versions of the Messenger client. In addition, we’ve gotten complaints about the complexity of the data formats required to publish status updates. For this reason, we have updated the activity object available in v5.0 to address these shortcomings. For this reason we are not supporting any new applications using the v4.1 activity publishing APIs although this will continue to function in existing applications. Any new applications that try to use this functionality from the v4.1 APIs will receive a 1073 error.
In summary, the v4.1 Messenger Connect APIs are deprecated and ceased working on August 14, 2012.
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The final version of the Live SDK v5.2 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone is now available for download here. There are several versions of the Live SDK, depending on your target development platform:- Live SDK for Windows and Windows Phone: use this edition if you're developing apps for Windows 8 or apps for Windows Phone 7.0 or 7.5. Download here.
- Live SDK for Android: use this edition if you're developing apps for Google Android mobile technology platform devices, like those running Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and Ice Cream Sandwich. Download here.
- Live SDK for iOS: use this edition if you're developing apps for the iOS operating system for Apple devices, like iPad, iTouch, and iPod. Download here.
We’ve also added the following new features in the REST API as highlighted in this SkyDrive blog post.
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If you're developing apps for other platforms, you don't need to download the Live SDK; you can reference our updated Representational State Transfer (REST) API directly, as follows:
- For websites that use JavaScript, learn more.
- For Windows desktop apps, and for mobile apps for other than Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, learn more.
If you have any questions about these downloads or about the Live SDKs in general, post them in this forum. We have team members here that are ready to help you.
If you're new to Live Connect, learn how to get started; configure your app; work with our code examples; do cool things with Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger; play with our APIs without writing any code; and explore our end-to-end code samples.
Windows Embedded Compact Managed Application Development announcements
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Welcome to this new forum.
Here you will be given the opportunity to interact with a great community of developers and discuss about Managed development for devices running Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded CE, Windows CE operating systems.
While the forum is new, the technologies discussed here can be as diverse as the latest and greatest version of the .Net Compact Framework, running on the latest version of Windows CE (a.k.a. Windows Embedded Compact 7) or older version of the .Net Compact framework that you might stil be using daily.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE native applications development and another one for CE platform development, so if your question is more related to building a CE OS or a driver, go here, and if your question is about native application development on CE, go here.
I am sure you will bookmark this place really rapidly.
-Olivier
Windows Embedded Compact Managed Application Development announcements
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Welcome to this new forum.
Here you will be given the opportunity to interact with a great community of developers and discuss about Managed development for devices running Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded CE, Windows CE operating systems.
While the forum is new, the technologies discussed here can be as diverse as the latest and greatest version of the .Net Compact Framework, running on the latest version of Windows CE (a.k.a. Windows Embedded Compact 7) or older version of the .Net Compact framework that you might stil be using daily.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE native applications development and another one for CE platform development, so if your question is more related to building a CE OS or a driver, go here, and if your question is about native application development on CE, go here.
I am sure you will bookmark this place really rapidly.
-Olivier
Standard 7: Embedded Enabling Features (EEFs) announcements
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Many of you have asked about contacting product support for questions that remain unanswered in the forums. The link below should help contact product support for Windows Embedded.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/about/support.mspx
Microsoft Robotics - Community announcements
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RDS 4 & Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 + Windows 8 Release Preview + Visual Studio 2012
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Three new technologies that impact RDS4 have been released recently:
- Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.5
- Windows 8 Release Preview
- Visual Studio 2012 RC
All of these have been tested with RDS 4 and there are a few issues to be aware of when using them with RDS 4.
Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.5
Version 1.5 is 100% compatible with RDS 4 on Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010. The built-in services as well as the user-built samples will continue to work as they have before. The new features such as Near Mode, Seated Mode, and Facial Tracking will not automatically be exposed, but the sample code for the RDS4 Kinect service is provided and can be used as an example of how to add the new features. If someone out there in the RDS community creates an updated service that exposes new features, we invite you to share it with the RDS community by posting a link in the RDS Community Forum http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/roboticscommunity/threads.
Windows 8 Release Preview
RDS 4 has been tested on Windows 8 Release Preview and while all the services can be built and run for Windows 8, there are a couple issues to be aware of:
- When building some of the samples, you may see a the following warning: “warning MSB3270: There was a mismatch between the processor architecture of the project being built…”. This is an innocuous warning. You can eliminate the warning for any service by editing the project file and explicitly setting the target architecture.
- The setup and building of some samples may report errors indicating that Silverlight 4 Toolkit is required. The Silverlight 4 Toolkit will not install on Windows 8. The workaround is to install the Silverlight 5 Toolkit from here: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/78435
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
The Express version of Visual Studio 2012 will only open Windows 8 Metro Style app projects. You can build the RDS samples from the command-line using the DSS Command Prompt, but you will not be able to open the projects.
- The Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate is a free download. It will eventually expire, but it is the best choice to try Visual Studio 2012 with RDS 4 at this time. Complete Beta Readme can be found here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=237568
- Installing VS 2012 upgrades the .NET runtime to 4.5. The pre-built Kinect RDS4 service samples will no longer run because they specifically targeted .NET 4.0, however the source code for the Kinect samples is included and they can be built with VS 2012 RC and these user-built versions will work.
- Samples built by the user are referred to as “User” version of the services and if they have partner requirements on other samples they will expect the “User” versions of partners as well.
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Announcing Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4
Today (8th March) we’re announcing the general availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 (RDS 4). The package can be downloaded for free. It was just over five months ago that we announced the availability of RDS 4 Beta and since then, the Microsoft Robotics team has been hard at work putting the final touches on RDS 4 to give developers access to the software they need to build robotics applications.
Since the Beta, our number one focus has been on improving the overall quality and stability of RDS 4. We’ve fixed a number of important issues in the product as well as made improvements to existing samples. Additionally, we updated RDS 4 to work with the release version of the Kinect for Windows SDK.
It is our goal to deliver a great product that meets the needs of the developer and hobbyist communities. We are already seeing RDS 4 being utilized to develop some interesting applications. Speaking of which, last fall, we announced the Robotics @ Home competition, and are thrilled with the submissions we’ve received. Today, we’re excited to reveal the competition’s 10 finalists. Visit the Robotics @ Home Finalists page to read more about the finalists, including how they think robotics will change the world and what they would do with the prize winnings. We look forward to announcing the grand prize winner in May of this year.
We have tested RDS 4 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Visual Studio 11 Beta. However, these are beta products so RDS 4 is not officially supported for use with them, but we know it works.
Also, our team has been using RDS 4 for a while now and we’ve come up with a few cool and unique applications. Check out the video of the Follow Me robot, created by our team.
From all of us on the Microsoft Robotics team, we’d like to thank you for your continued support and your feedback on RDS 4, which helped get us to where we are today. As always, you can use the Robotics Forums to send us any additional questions and suggestions.
NOTE: Please install Visual Studio 2010 and the Kinect for Windows SDK V1 before you install RDS 4.
Microsoft Robotics - Community announcements
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Three new technologies that impact RDS4 have been released recently:
- Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.5
- Windows 8 Release Preview
- Visual Studio 2012 RC
All of these have been tested with RDS 4 and there are a few issues to be aware of when using them with RDS 4.
Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.5
Version 1.5 is 100% compatible with RDS 4 on Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010. The built-in services as well as the user-built samples will continue to work as they have before. The new features such as Near Mode, Seated Mode, and Facial Tracking will not automatically be exposed, but the sample code for the RDS4 Kinect service is provided and can be used as an example of how to add the new features. If someone out there in the RDS community creates an updated service that exposes new features, we invite you to share it with the RDS community by posting a link in the RDS Community Forum http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/roboticscommunity/threads.
Windows 8 Release Preview
RDS 4 has been tested on Windows 8 Release Preview and while all the services can be built and run for Windows 8, there are a couple issues to be aware of:
- When building some of the samples, you may see a the following warning: “warning MSB3270: There was a mismatch between the processor architecture of the project being built…”. This is an innocuous warning. You can eliminate the warning for any service by editing the project file and explicitly setting the target architecture.
- The setup and building of some samples may report errors indicating that Silverlight 4 Toolkit is required. The Silverlight 4 Toolkit will not install on Windows 8. The workaround is to install the Silverlight 5 Toolkit from here: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/78435
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
The Express version of Visual Studio 2012 will only open Windows 8 Metro Style app projects. You can build the RDS samples from the command-line using the DSS Command Prompt, but you will not be able to open the projects.
- The Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate is a free download. It will eventually expire, but it is the best choice to try Visual Studio 2012 with RDS 4 at this time. Complete Beta Readme can be found here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=237568
- Installing VS 2012 upgrades the .NET runtime to 4.5. The pre-built Kinect RDS4 service samples will no longer run because they specifically targeted .NET 4.0, however the source code for the Kinect samples is included and they can be built with VS 2012 RC and these user-built versions will work.
- Samples built by the user are referred to as “User” version of the services and if they have partner requirements on other samples they will expect the “User” versions of partners as well.
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Announcing Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4
Today (8th March) we’re announcing the general availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 (RDS 4). The package can be downloaded for free. It was just over five months ago that we announced the availability of RDS 4 Beta and since then, the Microsoft Robotics team has been hard at work putting the final touches on RDS 4 to give developers access to the software they need to build robotics applications.
Since the Beta, our number one focus has been on improving the overall quality and stability of RDS 4. We’ve fixed a number of important issues in the product as well as made improvements to existing samples. Additionally, we updated RDS 4 to work with the release version of the Kinect for Windows SDK.
It is our goal to deliver a great product that meets the needs of the developer and hobbyist communities. We are already seeing RDS 4 being utilized to develop some interesting applications. Speaking of which, last fall, we announced the Robotics @ Home competition, and are thrilled with the submissions we’ve received. Today, we’re excited to reveal the competition’s 10 finalists. Visit the Robotics @ Home Finalists page to read more about the finalists, including how they think robotics will change the world and what they would do with the prize winnings. We look forward to announcing the grand prize winner in May of this year.
We have tested RDS 4 on Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Visual Studio 11 Beta. However, these are beta products so RDS 4 is not officially supported for use with them, but we know it works.
Also, our team has been using RDS 4 for a while now and we’ve come up with a few cool and unique applications. Check out the video of the Follow Me robot, created by our team.
From all of us on the Microsoft Robotics team, we’d like to thank you for your continued support and your feedback on RDS 4, which helped get us to where we are today. As always, you can use the Robotics Forums to send us any additional questions and suggestions.
NOTE: Please install Visual Studio 2010 and the Kinect for Windows SDK V1 before you install RDS 4.
Orchard –Discussions announcements
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Orchard –Discussions announcements
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WebsitePanel - Discussions announcements
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Dear friends,
Welcome to WebsitePanel community forums! These forums provide you an opportunity to join WebsitePanel users and share knowledge, get questions answered and learn from other WebsitePanel cutomers. Start by posting WebsitePanel related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to WebsitePanel, please feel free to post in our forums.
-Feodor Fitsner
WebsitePanel - Discussions announcements
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Dear friends,
Welcome to WebsitePanel community forums! These forums provide you an opportunity to join WebsitePanel users and share knowledge, get questions answered and learn from other WebsitePanel cutomers. Start by posting WebsitePanel related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to WebsitePanel, please feel free to post in our forums.
-Feodor Fitsner
Register and Manage Account announcements
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Over the last month, we’ve brought the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store together into a single marketing and operations team to deliver a better experience for developers, end users and partners. Our focus remains to improve the way we help you reach new users and better monetize your apps, all while reducing friction and cost. Today we are making a set of changes that will simplify doing business with us.
I’m pleased to announce a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers, available at a lower cost. As a result of these changes, Windows Store developers are now also Windows Phone developers, and Windows Phone developers are also Windows Store developers. Welcome all!
Here’s what you can expect:
- Registered Windows Store developers can now submit apps to the Windows Phone Store, using the same Microsoft account.
- Registered Windows Phone developers can now submit apps to the Windows Store at no additional cost, using the same Microsoft account.
- New developers can register and existing developers can renew their account using the same Microsoft account. Developers will enter registration information just once and pay a single lower price of $19 for an Individual and $99 for a Company account, providing access to publish
apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users. - Developers already registered with both Windows Store and Windows Phone using the same Microsoft account will receive a code via email this month, valid for a free one-year
renewal when their existing registration is up for renewal. - Students continue to be supported through the DreamSpark program.
You will continue to use the separate Windows Store and Windows Phone Dev Center Dashboards to submit and manage your apps. You can expect some differences in the steps you take to renew your account. The most notable for some of our Windows Phone developers is the addition of a credit card to validate all new account and renewals. You can read more about today’s changes on the Windows and Windows Phone Dev Centers.
Publish your app for both Windows Store and Windows Phone and earn prizes
With the holiday selling season approaching, this is an ideal time to tune-up and publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone to help increase your downloads and revenue. Last year holiday sales of paid apps grew 40% over baseline, and we expect an even more robust Holiday 2013 due to an even larger base of Windows and Windows Phone users with more ways to pay for apps.
As an added incentive, we’ve partnered with Nokia via the DVLUP community to give you an easy way to learn more and complete challenges as you develop for both the Windows Store and Windows Phone. Along the way, you’ll earn points that can then be redeemed for great prizes (for example, Nokia Lumia phones and more). DVLUP is currently open to developers in more than 20 countries. To participate, register for the DVLUP program and take advantage of the two new challenges available today:
Publish a new app for Windows Phone 8, or port an existing Windows Store app
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Bring your Windows Phone app to Windows 8.1I’m hopeful that the steps we’ve taken will encourage you to publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users around the world. I’ll share more in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned.
Quoted from Todd Brix on the 'Windows Phone Developer Blog'( http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/11/06/unifying-developer-registration-windows-and-windows-phone.aspx)
Script Junkie Discussion announcements
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We'd like to welcome you to the Script Junkie forum. Here you'll find a fantastic place to engage with others who have a passion for JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the emerging standards that are changing the face of web development. We urge you to share the web development experiences and techniques that have made your projects fun and exciting.
Also, please let us know your feelings about the SJ content so that authors can get the feedback they need to continuously enhance their works. We want to know what works and what topics you'd like to see in the future and this forum is a great place to share your ideas.
It's our hope that the SJ forum breeds many incredibly useful discussions and provides a hub for developers to work together to build amazing applications.
- The Script Junkie Team
Script Junkie Discussion announcements
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We'd like to welcome you to the Script Junkie forum. Here you'll find a fantastic place to engage with others who have a passion for JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the emerging standards that are changing the face of web development. We urge you to share the web development experiences and techniques that have made your projects fun and exciting.
Also, please let us know your feelings about the SJ content so that authors can get the feedback they need to continuously enhance their works. We want to know what works and what topics you'd like to see in the future and this forum is a great place to share your ideas.
It's our hope that the SJ forum breeds many incredibly useful discussions and provides a hub for developers to work together to build amazing applications.
- The Script Junkie Team
Microsoft Translator Developer & Web Master Support announcements
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For IT-type content (software, hardware...) API user can use the "TECH" domain to get better results with their translations.
To use the TECH domains, the developer needs to invoke in the API by using the category=tech parameter.
Not all the languages supported by Microsoft Translator general domain (list of the 45+ supported languages for the general domain can be found here: www.microsofttranslator.com/help). You can use the GetLangaugesForTranslate() method to query the complete language set. (also listed below for convenience). For the languages not listed the translation result will be the same between category=general and category=tech.
Here is the list of languages supported by this domain:
- cs
- da
- de
- el
- es
- fi
- fr
- he
- hi
- hu
- it
- ja
- ko
- nl
- no
- pl
- pt-br
- pt-pt
- ru
- sv
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When you try to translate a large Word document by using Microsoft Translator, you might get 404 error. This is a known issue and we're working on this. If you need to translate a large Word document, we suggest you to split the large document into smaller documents. We will post a note at the forum when this issue gets fixed.
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Microsoft Translator developer offerings provide developers a wide spectrum of translation and language APIs for integration into their applications and services.The AJAX interface provides your web applications with JavaScript based access to translation services.The SOAP interface provides a strongly typed, web service standards based programming model supporting rich development environments such as the .NET framework.The HTTP interface provides a high degree of interoperability for any network enabled application and supports a broad range of development environments.Comprehensive reference for Microsoft Translator APIs on MSDN.Windows Azure Marketplace gives you a convenient way to sign up for the Microsoft Translator API. The set of offers includes an option for FREE use of the API. You can try out the functionality of the Translator API without having to write any code, right there on the Windows Azure Marketplace.
News, Feedback & Support
Microsoft Translator Developer & Web Master Support announcements
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For IT-type content (software, hardware...) API user can use the "TECH" domain to get better results with their translations.
To use the TECH domains, the developer needs to invoke in the API by using the category=tech parameter.
Not all the languages supported by Microsoft Translator general domain (list of the 45+ supported languages for the general domain can be found here: www.microsofttranslator.com/help). You can use the GetLangaugesForTranslate() method to query the complete language set. (also listed below for convenience). For the languages not listed the translation result will be the same between category=general and category=tech.
Here is the list of languages supported by this domain:
- cs
- da
- de
- el
- es
- fi
- fr
- he
- hi
- hu
- it
- ja
- ko
- nl
- no
- pl
- pt-br
- pt-pt
- ru
- sv
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When you try to translate a large Word document by using Microsoft Translator, you might get 404 error. This is a known issue and we're working on this. If you need to translate a large Word document, we suggest you to split the large document into smaller documents. We will post a note at the forum when this issue gets fixed.
Thanks. Microsoft Translator Team -
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Microsoft Translator developer offerings provide developers a wide spectrum of translation and language APIs for integration into their applications and services.The AJAX interface provides your web applications with JavaScript based access to translation services.The SOAP interface provides a strongly typed, web service standards based programming model supporting rich development environments such as the .NET framework.The HTTP interface provides a high degree of interoperability for any network enabled application and supports a broad range of development environments.Comprehensive reference for Microsoft Translator APIs on MSDN.Windows Azure Marketplace gives you a convenient way to sign up for the Microsoft Translator API. The set of offers includes an option for FREE use of the API. You can try out the functionality of the Translator API without having to write any code, right there on the Windows Azure Marketplace.
News, Feedback & Support
Visual Studio Setup and Installation announcements
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 have been released to the web for MSDN subscribers, as well as trial versions for all our customers.
More information about the many features in VS2012 can be found at the links below.
If you have any problems installing Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, please download and run the log collection utility. When that completes, upload %TEMP%\vslogs.cab to an Internet share like http://skydrive.com, which gives you 7GB of free cloud storage using the same Microsoft account you use for these forums. Then share the URL here in this forum with a description of your problem.
WebsitePanel - Support announcements
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With the introduction of our new website, we have introduced a new integrated forum which will replace MSDN. You can visit the new forums at this location.
http://www.websitepanel.net/support/
You can also contact the WebsitePanel team here with any questions or concern.
http://www.websitepanel.net/contact/
Thank you for your continued support.
WebsitePanel - Support announcements
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With the introduction of our new website, we have introduced a new integrated forum which will replace MSDN. You can visit the new forums at this location.
http://www.websitepanel.net/support/
You can also contact the WebsitePanel team here with any questions or concern.
http://www.websitepanel.net/contact/
Thank you for your continued support.
Windows Embedded Compact Native Application Development announcements
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Welcome almighty native CE developers!
This new forum is dedicated to all topics related to native applications development on Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded CE and Windows CE, whether you are using the latest Visual Studio 2008 or the older eVC++, this forum is all yours! If you are coming from Newsgroup, I really think you will love the forums format.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE managed applications development and another one for CE platform development, so if your question is more related to building a CE OS or a driver, go here, and if your question is about managed application development on CE, go here.
I look forward to read your first questions and to see our community jumping in.
-Olivier
Windows Embedded Compact Native Application Development announcements
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Welcome almighty native CE developers!
This new forum is dedicated to all topics related to native applications development on Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded CE and Windows CE, whether you are using the latest Visual Studio 2008 or the older eVC++, this forum is all yours! If you are coming from Newsgroup, I really think you will love the forums format.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE managed applications development and another one for CE platform development, so if your question is more related to building a CE OS or a driver, go here, and if your question is about managed application development on CE, go here.
I look forward to read your first questions and to see our community jumping in.
-Olivier
Microsoft Unified Communications Web API announcements
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Documentation for the Unified Communications Web API (UCWA), a web API that is part of the new Lync 2013 release, is available at http://ucwa.lync.com/documentation/what-is-lync-ucwa-api.
You can go through the fully interactive demo and sandbox by just visiting http://ucwa.lync.com
Microsoft Unified Communications Web API announcements
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Documentation for the Unified Communications Web API (UCWA), a web API that is part of the new Lync 2013 release, is available at http://ucwa.lync.com/documentation/what-is-lync-ucwa-api.
You can go through the fully interactive demo and sandbox by just visiting http://ucwa.lync.com
Internet Explorer Web Development announcements
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Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.
Thanks,
Microsoft Community team
Internet Explorer Web Development announcements
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Please be aware that Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Preview is now available. Please feel free to post questions or discussions related to IE 11 Preview in this forum.
Thanks,
Microsoft Community team
Microsoft Robotics - Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Microsoft Robotics - Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Bing Maps: Map Control and Web services Development announcements
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Today we announced the new Bing Maps developer forums. Rather than having a single forum for Bing Maps we have created 5 seperate froums grouping liked API's. In addition we have also created a Bing Maps category in the MSDN forums which you can access here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/bingmaps
· Bing Maps Silverlight/WPF Controls
· Bing Maps REST/SOAP/SDS Services
· Bing Maps Windows 8 Controls
The original announcement can be found here: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/03/16/the-bing-maps-forums.aspx
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Since its release earlier this year, we have seen interest in, and usage of, our Bing Maps Spatial Data Services (SDS) grow rapidly.
The result is that at times of peak load the number of evaluation accounts using the service is pre-empting other requests. Today we have made a change to the SDS service that will prioritize requests from Enterprise Accounts. You can check the status of your Account to see if you have an Enterprise Account by logging into the account on the Bing Maps Account Center.
We regret that this means that you will no longer be able to submit new jobs to SDS from non-Enterprise Accounts until you request and are given access to SDS as detailed below. To be clear, data already uploaded to the SDS service can still be queried; it is only when you try to update those data sets, create new ones, or download them that you will receive an error.
If you would like to request access to SDS for a non-Enterprise Account application, you can do so by emailing MAPLIC@microsoft.com with your Account ID and (for publically accessible sites) top level domains. Be sure to send this request from the email account on record in the Bing Maps Account Center. (Replies will only be sent to these accounts so please check your SPAM filters and the usual things that might complicate communication.)
Please also note that if you are using the SDS service from an Enterprise Account, then you should not need to take any action related to production accounts. Your application should not require any changes. If you experience any issues please let us know via your enterprise support contact.
As we continue to enhance the SDS system this process will be improved and made more efficient. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Chris Pendleton
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Released today, the Bing Maps v7 Interactive SDK demonstrates the code required to perform common tasks on the Bing Maps v7 control - how to add shapes to the map, working with tile layers, adding events to the map, together with new features such as getting the user's location and registering custom modules.
You can access the interactive SDK here: http://www.bingmapsportal.com/ISDK/AjaxV7
If you have any questions about the examples used in the iSDK, please start a new thread onthe forum
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On the 2nd November 2010, Microsoft announced that they have discontinued investment in the Bing Maps 3D control Active-X plug-in.
When the next update to www.bing.com/maps is launched, the option to view 3D Maps will be removed.
Current users of 3D Maps can expect the following:
1. Permalinks and the desktop shortcut to 3D Maps will be redirected to Bing Maps with the nearest match to the experience they had in 3D. In most cases this will result only in a loss of the ability to navigate in full 3D.
2. After opening collections with 3D models, the 3D models will be represented as pushpins only. The models will not be accessible from collections.
3. Permalinks to tours will now open the collection manager with a message indicating discontinued support of the feature. Unfortunately there will no longer be an option to view the tour.
The 3D API used by developers to implement 3D mode in their own Bing Maps (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb429547.aspx) will continue to be supported until December 2011.
You can view the announcement by Brian Hendricks, Bing Maps Product Manager, at: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/11/02/changes-to-bird-s-eye-and-3d-maps.aspx
Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development announcements
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- Benefits of getting desktop apps certified for Windows 8
- Learn how to use the Windows App Certification Kit
- How to list a desktop app in the Windows Store
- App submission checklist
- What’s new in the SDK
- The Compatibility Cookbook: Tips on getting your app compatible for Windows 8
- Compatibility Center Update the compatibility status of your app or add apps
For questions about certification policies, contact the Certification Support Team
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Windows 7 Application Remediation Services are now available to assist software developers and corporate customers with application compatibility issues. Microsoft wants to ensure customers resolve application compatibility issues related to code remediation or general compatibility with Windows 7. If you are a software developer, Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) ISV, or corporate customer who is deploying software on Windows 7, you may take advantage of this program in the following ways:
1. Online support and resources at:
a. MSDN
b. TechNet
c. MPN ISV Online Technical Communities (MPN partners provided a response within 8 business hours from Microsoft)
d. https://www.isvappcompat.com/
2. Premier customers may request a Windows 7 Application Compatibility for Enterprises Workshop through their Technical Account Manager. Premier Field Engineers are also available for on-site identification and remediation of issues through Application Compatibility services. In some countries, the workshop is being made available for open enrollment events as well.
3. Use your Premier, or Professional Support agreements (or Pay Per Incident) to open paid service requests with Microsoft Support. Our support teams will assist you through shim development, debugging code or leveraging XP mode to resolve application compatibility issues. You may open a service request by using the following resources: Phone (800) 936-4900 - Premier Support, Professional or MSDN Support.
4. In addition, MPN Partners can leverage Technical Sales Assistance, Technical Advisory Services, and Break-Fix Support benefits by contacting the Global Partner Support team. To do so learn more at MPN Partner Technical Support Benefits and MPN ISV Online Technical Communities
Code Contracts announcements
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Better inference of object invariants for the static checker!
Some bug fixes!
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
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New checks, improved performances for the static checker
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
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Dear CC users,
we are glad to announce the birth of a new blog on CodeContracts, static analysis etc: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/francesco/
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It has taken a long time, we know, but we have finally released the contract editor extensions for VS2012 and an update to VS2010.
The new version is much more stable and less CPU consuming than previously and hopefully much more useful as a result.
For VS2012: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/02de7066-b6ca-42b3-8b3c-2562c7fa024f
For VS2010: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/85f0aa38-a8a8-4811-8b86-e7f0b8d8c71b
If you haven't tried it yet, then please do and let us know what you think!
To review, the extensions should show you method contracts in the following situations:
- While you are typing a call to a method: the signature helper window should show you each overload's contract in the same window as the signature and exception information.
- Hovering over an existing method call: the quick info window should show you the method's contract in addition to its summary information.
- Method override and interface implementation definitions: hover over the method name in the signature to see the tooltip of the contracts inherited (or defined in the method).
- Metadata windows: if you "go to definition" for a type/method that is defined in an external assembly then the metadata window that VS creates should be augmented with method contracts.
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We have added a section to our web site listing the external projects that we know about which are using Code Contracts. If you would like your project listed, please send us a link and we'll add it to the list. This would really help us in our efforts to get the project more fully supported by the product groups.
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We are so happy that you are interested in Code Contracts! You are at exactly the right place for learning how to use contracts from any .NET language to:
- Specify method preconditions for expressing conditions that a caller must meet in order to call a method.
- Specify method postconditions for expressing conditions that the implementation of a method must meet before returning. Conditions can be specified for both normal termination as well as exceptional termination.
- Specify object invariants that describe the healthy states for an instance of a class.
We currently provide three tools for making use of contracts:
- A binary rewriter that operates as a post-build step to inject the contracts into the appropriate places for them to be evaluated at runtime.
- A static checker that operates as a post-build step to analyze your code without even executing it for potential contract violations.
- A documentation generator that adds information about the contracts to the XML documentation files for your project.
The installer for these tools is available for either commercial or non-commercial use.
We welcome you to use the forum to ask questions about how to use contracts and the tools, to make suggestions for how we can improve, and --- if you really must --- to report bugs and problems.
You can also check out our home page at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Atlas APIs: Development announcements
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There's a new Atlas sample available to help you make the most of Atlas Reporting!
The package includes a complete Visual Studio Solution and code for a complete Windows Forms application that allows for submitting reports, watching for their completion, saving reports as Favorites and more! Also included is a new version of the AtlasServices class library that makes it easy to implement these features in your application. And finally, a small console application is included to demonstrate some of the features in AtlasServices.
You can download the complete sample from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Reporting-application-and-3f1bac32
Please share any comments, suggestions, or bug reports!
Microsoft Atlas APIs: Development announcements
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There's a new Atlas sample available to help you make the most of Atlas Reporting!
The package includes a complete Visual Studio Solution and code for a complete Windows Forms application that allows for submitting reports, watching for their completion, saving reports as Favorites and more! Also included is a new version of the AtlasServices class library that makes it easy to implement these features in your application. And finally, a small console application is included to demonstrate some of the features in AtlasServices.
You can download the complete sample from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Reporting-application-and-3f1bac32
Please share any comments, suggestions, or bug reports!
Developing for Windows Phone announcements
C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
-Eric (ebattali@microsoft.com)
Developing Windows Desktop Applications with Power Management announcements
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Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ff944599.aspx for up to date information on how to design applications that are energy smart and work well with Windows Power Management. Post feedback on this forum if you can't find the information you are looking for via this link.
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As somewhat of a social experiment, I'm inviting those of you who've diagnosed issues with apps not working correctly with Windows power management to post your reports on this forum here. Apps not working right could mean that the PC stays awake unnecessarily, or or could mean that the app is negatively impacted by power management because it doesn't request that the system or display stay on while it is perform critical work.
The goal is to share knowledge of the issues so we aren't all "re-diagnosing the same wheel" and hopefully get the attention of the developers of the apps so they can make their applications a little more energy smart. Here's hoping...
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This forum is for issues associated with developing application that work well with Windows Power Management. Please do not post general Windows development or other non-power management related questions to this forum or they will be moved to the 'off-topic' forum.
Thanks!
Azure SQL Database announcements
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Microsoft Azure provides you two options when hosting your SQL Server-based data: Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine. This new article explains how each option fits into the big picture in Microsoft’s Data Platform, and then discusses the common business motivations that might affect your choice. Please take a look at it!
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Hi all,
We have successfully performed service maintenance on SQL Data Sync service in US North Central region. We plan to conduct the same update in other Data Sync data centers from 09/16 US PST to 09/30 US PST.
Sync groups in these regions may encounter intermittent sync interruptions. On premise SQL Data Sync agents may go offline during the service maintenance. In the event of agents going offline, users will need to restart the offline agents after the maintenance period. Agents should be back online after the restart. Sync operations should continue as normal.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. This service update includes a few internal technology updates. We hope to bring greater running experience to you through the update.
Thank you for your continued interests in SQL Data Sync.
Thanks,
SQL Data Sync
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Folks,
If you are using SQL Data Sync and need to ask something related to an issue you maybe encountering, then please add the below details in your post. This helps to look at the logs and help troubleshoot instead of multiple back and forth posts.
Server id: Your server id
Region: Where your Data Sync Server is located/created
Time / Date: Date and time when you encountered the issue
Tracing Id: The tracing id you see in the message in UI
Thanks,
Mahesh
Azure Operational Insights announcements
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Operational Insights is an analysis service that enables IT administrators to gain deep insight across on-premises and cloud environments. It enables you to interact with real-time and historical machine data to rapidly develop custom insights, and provides Microsoft and community-developed patterns for analyzing data. Learn more and try it out at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/trial/operational-insights-get-started
This is a forum to ask question and discuss with the community about your experience with OpInsights!
If you are having issues with onboarding, a good place to start is this troubleshooting article http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2014/05/29/advisor-error-3000-unable-to-register-to-the-advisor-service-amp-onboarding-troubleshooting-steps.aspx
Note we also have another site to report Feedback, Ideas and Bugs http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights (before submitting there, check what other users have already suggested and voted on). You can also reach us on twitter @OpInsights
HealthVault Developer announcements
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If you are not a developer but are interested in learning more about how to manage your health information with HealthVault, please visit our HealthVault User forum.
Project Customization and Programming announcements
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The Project 2013 SDK download is updated. The conceptual, how-to, and reference documentation in the download closely matches the Project 2013 developer documentation online content published on MSDN.
The Project2013SDK.msi download file now installs properly on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
The Project 2013 SDK download contains:
- The on-premises Reporting database schema reference, ProjectServer2013_ReportingDB.chm, and the OLAP cube schema reference.
- Updated VBA Help for local use. Objects such as Chart, Report, Series, and Shape now show correct members tables, properties, and methods topics.
- Basic reference topics for the JavaScript client-side object model (JSOM), which includes REST endpoints and HTTP request syntax. You can use the JSOM for development of Project Online solutions for cross-browser web apps and for non-Windows platforms.
- Sixteen complete code solutions, including two task pane apps (with minor updates) for Project, the QuickStatus app sample for Project Server and Project Online, eight client-side object model (CSOM) solutions, two solutions for querying the ProjectData service for reporting, and three updated legacy PSI solutions.
- DLLs and a license for redistribution of the Project Server CSOM assemblies, JavaScript files for the CSOM, the Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library assembly, and the Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Events.Receivers library for on-premises development.
Notes: 1. The REDIST.zip file that is attached to the Project_Programmability blog post contains the RTM build
15.0.4420.1017 of the Project Server assemblies for redistribution, including the
Microsoft.Office.Project.Schema.dll assembly, for developing event handlers.
2. Project CSOM solutions also require the redistributable DLLs for the SharePoint 2013 CSOM,
which are at SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK. - Updated Intellisense files for the PSI and CSOM, source code for creating a PSI proxy assembly, and instructions on how to update the PSI proxy files.
- XML schemas for the Project client, AppProvisioning, and the Statusing PSI.
The top-level online landing page for the Project SDK is Project for developers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/project).
For additional Project-related SDK content, see Office for developers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/office), SharePoint for developers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint), and Build apps for Office and SharePoint (http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/apps/). The two articles on Task pane apps for Project are in the Apps for Office and SharePoint SDK, and the JavaScript API for Office reference includes information specific for Project, the ProjectDocument object with eleven methods and three events, and four enumerations for Project.
Want to try out Project 2013?
- Sign up for Project Online and Project Pro for Office 365
- Download Project Professional 2013 and Project Server 2013
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Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry announcements
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We are pleased to announce the availability of Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro Release Preview
You can download and file bugs at http://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembeddedTAP/program8171
Please use this forum to discuss the preview release.
Your feedback is really important and useful to us. Thank you for participating.
Please note that for feedback on other versions of the Windows 8.1 Release Preview we recommend visiting the Windows 8.1 Preview forum
Kinect for Windows v1 SDK announcements
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We are pleased to announce that Kinect for Windows v1.8 is now available and released to the public. The full details of the announcement and features are available on our blog:
Version 1.8 is an in-place update to the previous v1.x versions and are fully compatible. Kinect for Windows SDK 1.8 includes some key features and samples that the community has been asking for, including::
- New background removal. An API removes the background behind the active user so that it can be replaced with an artificial background. This green-screening effect was one of the top requests we’re heard in recent months. It is especially useful for advertising, augmented reality gaming, training and simulation, and other immersive experiences that place the user in a different virtual environment.
- Realistic color capture with Kinect Fusion. A new Kinect Fusion API scans the color of the scene along with the depth information so that it can capture the color of the object along with its three-dimensional (3D) model. The API also produces a texture map for the mesh created from the scan. This feature provides a full fidelity 3D model of a scan, including color, which can be used for full color 3D printing or to create accurate 3D assets for games, CAD, and other applications.
- Improved tracking robustness with Kinect Fusion. This algorithm makes it easier to scan a scene. With this update, Kinect Fusion is better able to maintain its lock on the scene as the camera position moves, yielding a more reliable and consistent scanning.
HTML interaction sample. This sample demonstrates implementing Kinect-enabled buttons, simple user engagement, and the use of a background removal stream in HTML5. It allows developers to use HTML5 and JavaScript to implement Kinect-enabled user interfaces, which was not possible previously—making it easier for developers to work in whatever programming languages they prefer and integrate Kinect for Windows into their existing solutions. - Multiple-sensor Kinect Fusion sample. This sample shows developers how to use two sensors simultaneously to scan a person or object from both sides—making it possible to construct a 3D model without having to move the sensor or the object! It demonstrates the calibration between two Kinect for Windows sensors, and how to use Kinect Fusion APIs with multiple depth snapshots. It is ideal for retail experiences and other public kiosks that do not include having an attendant available to scan by hand.
- Adaptive UI sample. This sample demonstrates how to build an application that adapts itself depending on the distance between the user and the screen—from gesturing at a distance to touching a touchscreen. The algorithm in this sample uses the physical dimensions and positions of the screen and sensor to determine the best ergonomic position on the screen for touch controls as well as ways the UI can adapt as the user approaches the screen or moves further away from it. As a result, the touch interface and visual display adapt to the user’s position and height, which enables users to interact with large touch screen displays comfortably. The display can also be adapted for more than one user.
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Register and Manage Account announcements
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Over the last month, we’ve brought the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store together into a single marketing and operations team to deliver a better experience for developers, end users and partners. Our focus remains to improve the way we help you reach new users and better monetize your apps, all while reducing friction and cost. Today we are making a set of changes that will simplify doing business with us.
I’m pleased to announce a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers, available at a lower cost. As a result of these changes, Windows Store developers are now also Windows Phone developers, and Windows Phone developers are also Windows Store developers. Welcome all!
Here’s what you can expect:
- Registered Windows Store developers can now submit apps to the Windows Phone Store, using the same Microsoft account.
- Registered Windows Phone developers can now submit apps to the Windows Store at no additional cost, using the same Microsoft account.
- New developers can register and existing developers can renew their account using the same Microsoft account. Developers will enter registration information just once and pay a single lower price of $19 for an Individual and $99 for a Company account, providing access to publish
apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users. - Developers already registered with both Windows Store and Windows Phone using the same Microsoft account will receive a code via email this month, valid for a free one-year
renewal when their existing registration is up for renewal. - Students continue to be supported through the DreamSpark program.
You will continue to use the separate Windows Store and Windows Phone Dev Center Dashboards to submit and manage your apps. You can expect some differences in the steps you take to renew your account. The most notable for some of our Windows Phone developers is the addition of a credit card to validate all new account and renewals. You can read more about today’s changes on the Windows and Windows Phone Dev Centers.
Publish your app for both Windows Store and Windows Phone and earn prizes
With the holiday selling season approaching, this is an ideal time to tune-up and publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone to help increase your downloads and revenue. Last year holiday sales of paid apps grew 40% over baseline, and we expect an even more robust Holiday 2013 due to an even larger base of Windows and Windows Phone users with more ways to pay for apps.
As an added incentive, we’ve partnered with Nokia via the DVLUP community to give you an easy way to learn more and complete challenges as you develop for both the Windows Store and Windows Phone. Along the way, you’ll earn points that can then be redeemed for great prizes (for example, Nokia Lumia phones and more). DVLUP is currently open to developers in more than 20 countries. To participate, register for the DVLUP program and take advantage of the two new challenges available today:
Publish a new app for Windows Phone 8, or port an existing Windows Store app
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Bring your Windows Phone app to Windows 8.1I’m hopeful that the steps we’ve taken will encourage you to publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users around the world. I’ll share more in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned.
Quoted from Todd Brix on the 'Windows Phone Developer Blog'( http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/11/06/unifying-developer-registration-windows-and-windows-phone.aspx)
Machine Learning announcements
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The latest release of Azure Machine Learning provides a new sample experiment gallery feature, a streamlined experiment page, and a new visualization for data tables. See the recent Service Update for more information.
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Troubleshooting guide for Azure Machine Learning is now available at Azure Machine Learning Center. The guide addresses the most common issues encountered when working with Azure Machine Learning. Our goal is to make the Azure ML experience as smooth and seamless as possible. To help us serve you better, please provide your feedback on the guide via comments on the article or in the Azure Machine Learning forum.
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We are excited to announce that Azure Machine Learning is now available for your use!
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is fully managed service to create, test, operationalize and manage predictive analytics solutions in the cloud. With just a browser, you can now sign up to Azure Machine Learning, upload data and immediately start machine learning experiments. Visual composition, large pallet of modules and a library of starting templates makes common machine learning tasks simple and quick. Turning a model into web service is easy – with a few clicks, a Predictive model build in ML Studio can be turned into a public REST API that encapsulates custom data transformation logic and sophisticated machine learning models.
Azure ML Studio is a workbench environment accessible via a web browser. ML Studio hosts a pallet of modules with a visual composition interface that enables you to build an end-to-end data science workflow in the form of an experiment. There are modules for data ingestion, transformation, and feature selection to build, score and evaluate a predictive models. Some of the most advanced algorithms that power machine learning in Bing and Xbox are built into ML Studio. ML Studio supports R. You can bring your existing R codes and incorporate it in your experiments. ML Studio enables you to combine these algorithms with your R code to build predictive models. ML Studio makes it easy to collaborate by enabling you to invite your team to your workspaces, where they can view and modify your experiments.
ML API service enables you to deploy a predictive models built in ML Studio as scalable, fault tolerant Web service. The web services created by the ML API service are REST APIs that provide an interface for communication between external applications and your predictive analytics model. The web service provides a way to communicate with a predictive model in real time to receive prediction results and incorporate the results into any external client application. ML API services leverage Microsoft Azure for deployment, hosting and management of the Azure ML REST APIs.
For more information about Azure Machine Learning, visit the http://Azure.com/ml , where you can learn more.
Welcome to Azure Machine Learning!
The Azure Machine Learning Team.
Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development announcements
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The WHCK forum has been created, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whck/threads . Please ask your cerification questions (workflow, packaging, errata/debugging issues, etc.) in this new forum.
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Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development announcements
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WCF Data Services announcements
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Over the weekend the ASP.NET team released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability found in ASP.NET:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2416728.mspx
The WCF Data Services team looked into the issue and don’t believe there is any additional exposure to the vulnerability beyond what is exposed by ASP.NET. However, if the WCF Data Service is hosted in ASP.NET, it is quite possible that the vulnerability is present. If any users use the ASP.Net encryption logic to hide sensitive information from the client and use that encrypted data to make decisions in the WCF Data Service, they can run into this issue. Below are few examples:
· If you use an encrypted cookie to make decisions to which database to connect in CreateDataSource method
· If you use an encrypted cookie to figure out whether the user is an admin rather than using RoleManager in the server
· If you use an encrypted cookie to apply business logic in change/query interceptors
For a complete description of the vulnerability, please read Scottgu’s post on the subject:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/18/important-asp-net-security-vulnerability.aspx
Andrew Conrad
WCF Data Services Development Lead
Microsoft Corp
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New to OData? Go to http://odata.org to learn the nuts and bolts of the protocol, see who is using it today, and learn the scenarios that drove the creation of the protocol.
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The WCF Data Services team is beginning to explore improvements and new features for our next release. As part of this process, it’s critical that we hear your feedback, as it helps us ensure that what we build actually meets your requirements in real-world scenarios. To enable this we’ve launched a new site that will allow you to interact more directly with the development team and provide input: http://dataservices.mswish.net .
The site’s pretty simple and self-explanatory – you can add a new feature request or vote for feature requests that are already there. We hope you’ll try it out and vote on the features you most want to see added. Finally, as features move from ideas into actual development we’ll post our thoughts and ideas to the team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam
-Mike Flasko
Lead Program Manager, Microsoft
WCF Data Services announcements
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Over the weekend the ASP.NET team released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability found in ASP.NET:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2416728.mspx
The WCF Data Services team looked into the issue and don’t believe there is any additional exposure to the vulnerability beyond what is exposed by ASP.NET. However, if the WCF Data Service is hosted in ASP.NET, it is quite possible that the vulnerability is present. If any users use the ASP.Net encryption logic to hide sensitive information from the client and use that encrypted data to make decisions in the WCF Data Service, they can run into this issue. Below are few examples:
· If you use an encrypted cookie to make decisions to which database to connect in CreateDataSource method
· If you use an encrypted cookie to figure out whether the user is an admin rather than using RoleManager in the server
· If you use an encrypted cookie to apply business logic in change/query interceptors
For a complete description of the vulnerability, please read Scottgu’s post on the subject:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/18/important-asp-net-security-vulnerability.aspx
Andrew Conrad
WCF Data Services Development Lead
Microsoft Corp
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New to OData? Go to http://odata.org to learn the nuts and bolts of the protocol, see who is using it today, and learn the scenarios that drove the creation of the protocol.
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The WCF Data Services team is beginning to explore improvements and new features for our next release. As part of this process, it’s critical that we hear your feedback, as it helps us ensure that what we build actually meets your requirements in real-world scenarios. To enable this we’ve launched a new site that will allow you to interact more directly with the development team and provide input: http://dataservices.mswish.net .
The site’s pretty simple and self-explanatory – you can add a new feature request or vote for feature requests that are already there. We hope you’ll try it out and vote on the features you most want to see added. Finally, as features move from ideas into actual development we’ll post our thoughts and ideas to the team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam
-Mike Flasko
Lead Program Manager, Microsoft
Windows Live Messenger Client: Development (retired) announcements
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http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
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http://messenger-support.spaces.live.com/
Windows Phone Preview OS Issues announcements
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We have moved our support from for the OS Consumer Support (almost any support of the Preview for Developer release that is not related to developing an application) to the Microsoft Community website.For more information, please read this thread:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b342fcb2-faa2-4415-9a95-687f0ecdd4a2/move-of-preview-os-issues-forum-to-ms-community?forum=winphoneosissuesThank you,
Azure Mobile Services announcements
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We are happy to announce that you can now log feature requests for Mobile Services on Uservoice. We would love to hear your feedback about the features we should be looking into:
http://feedback.windowsazure.com/forums/216254-mobile-services
Thanks.
Dinesh
Standard 2009: Embedded Enabling Features (EEFs) announcements
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I am very pleased to announce that Richard John Eaton, one of the most active contributors in this forum, to be our first Answerer!
With this role, Richard will help us manage the forum and other creative community activities.
I know it's a not fancy title, but it's a recognition from us for his great support in the community. We hope Richard can help us move this forum to the next level. And then he'll be moved to the next level too, to be a "Moderator". (Come on, that one is fancier :P)
Here is Richard in his own word:40 something geek, with a severe interest in computers, Gadgets, off roading and gardening.
Lead developer at Steatite for Embedded Solutions. Having been employed there since his return from Russia in 2005.
Go Richard!
Weijuan
POS for .NET announcements
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This forum has been retired. It is locked; it will still be available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the .NET Framework Class Libraries forum.
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Microsoft Point of Service for .NET v1.12 (POS for .NET) is a class library that enables POS developers to apply Microsoft .NET technologies in their products. It provides a simple and consistent interface for .NET Framework applications to interact with POS devices, in compliance with the UnifiedPOS standard (aka UPOS). In addition, it provides windows plug and play (PnP) support. There are thirty-six classes of POS peripherals supported including cash drawer, receipt printer, barcode scanner, magnetic strip reader (MSR), line display, RFID, Biometric, Belt, Check Scanner, Fiscal Printer, Electronic Journal, Image Scanner, Item Dispenser, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Reader (MICR), PIN Pad, signature capture device, etc. In addition, POS for .NET supports many legacy devices where OPOS service objects are available.
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eaae202a-0fcc-406a-8fde-35713d7841ca&displaylang=en· Team Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/· POS for .NET Forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posfordotnet/· MSDN Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848020.aspx· Sample Scanner (TechEd 2008 HOL)
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/attachment/8590083.ashx· Unified POS specification:
http://www.nrf-arts.org/UnifiedPOS/default.htm· Common Control Objects (OPOS):
http://monroecs.com/oposccos.htmBlog Articles
· Setting the BinaryConversions property for certain legacy devices:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2009/09/18/setting-the-binaryconversions-property-for-legacy-opos-service-objects.aspx
This may be helpful for those that need to interface with SigCap devices (such as Ingenico)· New Blog: Interfacing with Biometric devices from POS applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2009/09/23/interfacing-with-biometric-devices-from-pos-applications.aspx
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Commerce Server 2007 announcements
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Commerce Server 2007 Enterprise Edition is now available to download from MSDN. If you have subscribed MSDN, you can download it now!
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Hello,
We have created a new forum "Commerce Server 2009" located under: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/commserver2009/threads/
Please post and find commerce server 2009 releated information in the new forum.
This forum is kept for Commerce Server 2007 related information and all the existing posts about Commerce Server 2009 will be moved to the new forum.
Thanks
Commerce Server 2007 announcements
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Commerce Server 2007 Enterprise Edition is now available to download from MSDN. If you have subscribed MSDN, you can download it now!
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Hello,
We have created a new forum "Commerce Server 2009" located under: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/commserver2009/threads/
Please post and find commerce server 2009 releated information in the new forum.
This forum is kept for Commerce Server 2007 related information and all the existing posts about Commerce Server 2009 will be moved to the new forum.
Thanks
Orchard - Help and Support announcements
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Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum:
Orchard - Help and Support announcements
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Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum:
Visual Studio Setup and Installation announcements
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 have been released to the web for MSDN subscribers, as well as trial versions for all our customers.
More information about the many features in VS2012 can be found at the links below.
If you have any problems installing Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, please download and run the log collection utility. When that completes, upload %TEMP%\vslogs.cab to an Internet share like http://skydrive.com, which gives you 7GB of free cloud storage using the same Microsoft account you use for these forums. Then share the URL here in this forum with a description of your problem.
WebsitePanel - Enterprise Modules Support announcements
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Dear friends,
Welcome to WebsitePanel community forums! These forums provide you an opportunity to join WebsitePanel users and share knowledge, get questions answered and learn from other WebsitePanel cutomers. Start by posting WebsitePanel related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to WebsitePanel, please feel free to post in our forums.
WebsitePanel - Enterprise Modules Support announcements
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Dear friends,
Welcome to WebsitePanel community forums! These forums provide you an opportunity to join WebsitePanel users and share knowledge, get questions answered and learn from other WebsitePanel cutomers. Start by posting WebsitePanel related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to WebsitePanel, please feel free to post in our forums.
Commerce Server 2009 announcements
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The Commerce Server Product Unit is pleased to announce the release of our Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 Template Pack for SharePoint 2010. Check out our blog for more information
Commerce Server 2009 announcements
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The Commerce Server Product Unit is pleased to announce the release of our Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 Template Pack for SharePoint 2010. Check out our blog for more information
ADO.NET DataSet announcements
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For people who are posting questions on this forum, here are a couple of questions to ask to understand if this forum is the best place to ask your question
1) If you have a question about how to connect to a database using Ado.Net, the Ado.Net Data Providers forum is the correct place make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/threads/
2) If you are having Databinding issues and not using a Dataset, DataTable or DataView, here is an appropriate forum to make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdatacontrols/threads/
3) For issues that occur when using Visual Studio and dragging and dropping within VS, here is an appropriate forum to make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdesigner/threads/
4) If you have a question related to VB6 Data Access please proceed to the following Discussion group
Thanks
Chris Robinson
Dataset - PM
Windows Performance Toolkit announcements
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Please keep your posts specific to performance analysis. All unrelated posts will be moved to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/threads, without warning. Repeated off-topic posts will be reported as abuse of this forum. Please use your favorite search engine to find the right forum for your question. If your question isn't about Windows performance, then you shouldn't post here.
Let's build a performance analysis community here :)
Cheers,
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FYI, the WinHEC 2008 DVD is now available for purchase at
http://shop.ecompanystore.com/mseventdvd/MSD_productdetail.asp?EventID=70882&TYPE=WinHEC%202008 (down to just $79 from the standard price of $495!).
There is a very good session on how to use XPerf on this DVD called Windows Performance Analysis: Using Windows Performance Tools [WinHEC 2008; 5.3 MB]. Slides are available to download for free at the above hyper link.
Keep on tracing,
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Welcome to the Windows Performance Toolkit forum!
As part of Microsoft's initiative to help its partners and customers improve the performance of their Windows systems, Windows group has released in Feb'08 the Windows Performance Toolkit. Version 4.1 of this toolkit has shipped in the Windows Server 2008 SDK and subsequent v.4.1.1 update has been made available on WHDC at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/perftools.mspx.
This toolkit isn't for everyone - to use it effectively, you need to have a grasp of the basic OS internals such as processes, threads, DPCs (deferred procedure calls), ISRs (interrupt service routines), I/O subsystem, registry, etc. Yet one need not be a system developer to use it either. First level triage (e.g. which component is responsible for system slowdown?, is it a CPU or a disk usage issue?, etc.) can often be done with only the basic understanding of the above mentioned concepts, something people usually cover in an introductory 101 OS course. An expert in that area, can then use the same toolkit to dig deeper into the issue, root-cause it, and work on providing a fix for it. A great reference for understanding OS Internals is the Microsoft Windows Internals (4th edition) book from Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. We highly recommend you get a copy if you plan on using this toolkit routinely.You can use this forum to ask questions about the toolkit, as well as share tips and tricks with other users on how you've used it successfully in the past. We are hoping that this forum will help build a vibrant environment of performance analyst hobbists and professionals alike, where you can find support from both the Microsoft team shipping these tools to you as well as the MVPs using it on a daily basis.
The toolkit comes with MSDN documentation available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139734.aspx. We recommend you consult it before asking questions on this forum. We would also like to hear feedback from you on our documentation - what are we missing, is something incorrect in the documentation, etc. You can provide it by sending email to wptkdocf@microsoft.com.
Happy tracing!
-WPT Team
Windows Performance Toolkit announcements
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Please keep your posts specific to performance analysis. All unrelated posts will be moved to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/threads, without warning. Repeated off-topic posts will be reported as abuse of this forum. Please use your favorite search engine to find the right forum for your question. If your question isn't about Windows performance, then you shouldn't post here.
Let's build a performance analysis community here :)
Cheers,
Michael -
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FYI, the WinHEC 2008 DVD is now available for purchase at
http://shop.ecompanystore.com/mseventdvd/MSD_productdetail.asp?EventID=70882&TYPE=WinHEC%202008 (down to just $79 from the standard price of $495!).
There is a very good session on how to use XPerf on this DVD called Windows Performance Analysis: Using Windows Performance Tools [WinHEC 2008; 5.3 MB]. Slides are available to download for free at the above hyper link.
Keep on tracing,
Michael -
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Welcome to the Windows Performance Toolkit forum!
As part of Microsoft's initiative to help its partners and customers improve the performance of their Windows systems, Windows group has released in Feb'08 the Windows Performance Toolkit. Version 4.1 of this toolkit has shipped in the Windows Server 2008 SDK and subsequent v.4.1.1 update has been made available on WHDC at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/perftools.mspx.
This toolkit isn't for everyone - to use it effectively, you need to have a grasp of the basic OS internals such as processes, threads, DPCs (deferred procedure calls), ISRs (interrupt service routines), I/O subsystem, registry, etc. Yet one need not be a system developer to use it either. First level triage (e.g. which component is responsible for system slowdown?, is it a CPU or a disk usage issue?, etc.) can often be done with only the basic understanding of the above mentioned concepts, something people usually cover in an introductory 101 OS course. An expert in that area, can then use the same toolkit to dig deeper into the issue, root-cause it, and work on providing a fix for it. A great reference for understanding OS Internals is the Microsoft Windows Internals (4th edition) book from Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. We highly recommend you get a copy if you plan on using this toolkit routinely.You can use this forum to ask questions about the toolkit, as well as share tips and tricks with other users on how you've used it successfully in the past. We are hoping that this forum will help build a vibrant environment of performance analyst hobbists and professionals alike, where you can find support from both the Microsoft team shipping these tools to you as well as the MVPs using it on a daily basis.
The toolkit comes with MSDN documentation available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139734.aspx. We recommend you consult it before asking questions on this forum. We would also like to hear feedback from you on our documentation - what are we missing, is something incorrect in the documentation, etc. You can provide it by sending email to wptkdocf@microsoft.com.
Happy tracing!
-WPT Team
General Office Development announcements
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO & VBA. Rest assured that VSTO & VBA continue to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO & VBA for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
-- Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT)
Building Windows Store apps with C# or VB announcements
Expression Blend + SketchFlow announcements
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Expression Blend + SketchFlow announcements
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Microsoft Atlas APIs: Development announcements
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There's a new Atlas sample available to help you make the most of Atlas Reporting!
The package includes a complete Visual Studio Solution and code for a complete Windows Forms application that allows for submitting reports, watching for their completion, saving reports as Favorites and more! Also included is a new version of the AtlasServices class library that makes it easy to implement these features in your application. And finally, a small console application is included to demonstrate some of the features in AtlasServices.
You can download the complete sample from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Reporting-application-and-3f1bac32
Please share any comments, suggestions, or bug reports!
Microsoft Atlas APIs: Development announcements
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There's a new Atlas sample available to help you make the most of Atlas Reporting!
The package includes a complete Visual Studio Solution and code for a complete Windows Forms application that allows for submitting reports, watching for their completion, saving reports as Favorites and more! Also included is a new version of the AtlasServices class library that makes it easy to implement these features in your application. And finally, a small console application is included to demonstrate some of the features in AtlasServices.
You can download the complete sample from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Reporting-application-and-3f1bac32
Please share any comments, suggestions, or bug reports!
Standard 2009: Components/Run-time Issues announcements
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I am very pleased to announce that Richard John Eaton, one of the most active contributors in this forum, to be our first Answerer!
With this role, Richard will help us manage the forum and other creative community activities.
I know it's a not fancy title, but it's a recognition from us for his great support in the community. We hope Richard can help us move this forum to the next level. And then he'll be moved to the next level too, to be a "Moderator". (Come on, that one is fancier :P)
Here is Richard in his own word:40 something geek, with a severe interest in computers, Gadgets, off roading and gardening.
Lead developer at Steatite for Embedded Solutions. Having been employed there since his return from Russia in 2005.
Go Richard!
Weijuan
Developing Windows Desktop Applications with Power Management announcements
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Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ff944599.aspx for up to date information on how to design applications that are energy smart and work well with Windows Power Management. Post feedback on this forum if you can't find the information you are looking for via this link.
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As somewhat of a social experiment, I'm inviting those of you who've diagnosed issues with apps not working correctly with Windows power management to post your reports on this forum here. Apps not working right could mean that the PC stays awake unnecessarily, or or could mean that the app is negatively impacted by power management because it doesn't request that the system or display stay on while it is perform critical work.
The goal is to share knowledge of the issues so we aren't all "re-diagnosing the same wheel" and hopefully get the attention of the developers of the apps so they can make their applications a little more energy smart. Here's hoping...
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This forum is for issues associated with developing application that work well with Windows Power Management. Please do not post general Windows development or other non-power management related questions to this forum or they will be moved to the 'off-topic' forum.
Thanks!
BizTalk Server EDI and AS2 announcements
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You will find many BizTalk Server related article on TechNet Wiki. Best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
Windows Hardware Testing and Certification announcements
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Windows Hardware Certification partners can now get news, info, and updates on the new Windows Certification blog. Partners can also post comments and join in conversations with the Certification team and other community members. The blog will replace the certification newsletter. Subscribe today!
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The purpose of this forum is to help those who have questions with the Windows testing and certification processes used with the Hardware Certification Kit (HCK). Please post questions here about the tools, processes and tests used in testing, packaging, and certifying drivers.
Windows Hardware Testing and Certification announcements
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Windows Hardware Certification partners can now get news, info, and updates on the new Windows Certification blog. Partners can also post comments and join in conversations with the Certification team and other community members. The blog will replace the certification newsletter. Subscribe today!
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The purpose of this forum is to help those who have questions with the Windows testing and certification processes used with the Hardware Certification Kit (HCK). Please post questions here about the tools, processes and tests used in testing, packaging, and certifying drivers.
Windows Mobile Development announcements
Windows Mobile Development announcements
Data Mining announcements
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Microsoft BI Labs went live today featuring a look into the future of SQL Server Data Mining in the Cloud. The SQL Server Data Mining team presents a set of prototype web services in the cloud that mirror some of the great predictive analytics functionality available in the Table Analysis Tools for Excel add-in from the SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office package. No installation required.
This blog post provides more details.
Explore these predictive services from your browser - on your own data - and give us your feedback!
Visual Studio Integrate announcements
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The documentation of Visual Studio 2013 stated:
"Visual Studio add-ins are deprecated in Visual Studio 2013. You should upgrade your add-ins to VSPackage extensions."
And in the next version Visual Studio "14" add-ins will be removed (the "Add-In Manager" menu item no longer exists). So, it is time to convert add-ins to packages.
Resources
- Visual Studio "14" Community Technology Previews (CTPs):
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-14-ctp-vs.aspx - Visual Studio 2013 SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758 - MSDN Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb166441.aspx - FAQ: Converting Add-ins to VSPackage Extensions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn246938.aspx
- Visual Studio "14" Community Technology Previews (CTPs):
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The Visual Studio 2013 SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2013.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758
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This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39305
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http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=t4&ac=8
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- This Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- For questions about T4 Toolbox, please use http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/discussions
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling Extensibility Forum - for domain-specific languages (DSLs) and extending the modeling tools
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
Azure Storage announcements
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When the forums moved into specialized areas, the original forum content for Windows Azure was left archived at this link:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/windowsazure/
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Please see the Windows Azure Storage Team Blog for more information on Windows Azure Storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/
Microsoft Translator Hub Forum announcements
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Chris Wendt interviews Dr. Will Lewis, getting a deeper insight into automatic quality scoring of customized machine translation systems. Microsoft Translator Hub uses an automatic scoring mechanism known as BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy). Dr. Lewis explains how this scoring mechanism works in the context of the Hub, how it compares to human evaluation and what factors impact the BLEU score for your custom trained systems.
Microsoft Translator Hub Forum announcements
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Chris Wendt interviews Dr. Will Lewis, getting a deeper insight into automatic quality scoring of customized machine translation systems. Microsoft Translator Hub uses an automatic scoring mechanism known as BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy). Dr. Lewis explains how this scoring mechanism works in the context of the Hub, how it compares to human evaluation and what factors impact the BLEU score for your custom trained systems.
Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling SDK (DSL Tools) announcements
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- This Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling SDK (DSL Tools) announcements
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- This Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Dev Center App announcements
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Thank you for all the feedback regarding the new Dev Center App!
We released an update (version 1.1.1302.26 published on Feb 28, 2013) to fix these issues:
- App would fail if the background agent was turned off
- App would show an incorrect notification “update required”
- UI graphic improvements
IMPORTANT: This app requires a Windows Phone Dev Center active account and won’t work without one.
Please take a minute to download the update. Please send us feedback either by email and this forum.
Windows Live Messenger Web APIs: Development announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.7 has been released.
See our blog posting for more information.
http://blogs.msdn.com/messenger/archive/2010/02/02/introducing-windows-live-messenger-web-toolkit-v3-7.aspx
Thanks for supporting the Messenger Web Toolkit!
Keiji
Microsoft Robotics - Decentralized Software Services (DSS) announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Microsoft Robotics - Decentralized Software Services (DSS) announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Windows Embedded Compact Platform Development announcements
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Welcome brave CE platform developers.
You are developing a Windows Embedded Compact image, a Windows Embedded CE BSP, a Windows CE driver? then you are at the right place.
This forum will host discussions about using Platform Builder to build Windows CE images, drivers, BSPs. You might have been rerouted here from NewsGroups, and I am sure you will love the format of forums.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE native applications development and another one for CE managed applications development, so if your question is more related to developing a native application for CE, go here, and if your question is about managed application development on CE, go here.
I am sure you will bookmark this place really rapidly.
-Olivier
Windows Embedded Compact Platform Development announcements
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Welcome brave CE platform developers.
You are developing a Windows Embedded Compact image, a Windows Embedded CE BSP, a Windows CE driver? then you are at the right place.
This forum will host discussions about using Platform Builder to build Windows CE images, drivers, BSPs. You might have been rerouted here from NewsGroups, and I am sure you will love the format of forums.
You might have noticed that 2 other forums just opened at the same time, one for CE native applications development and another one for CE managed applications development, so if your question is more related to developing a native application for CE, go here, and if your question is about managed application development on CE, go here.
I am sure you will bookmark this place really rapidly.
-Olivier
Submitting and Publishing Apps announcements
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Hello all,
You can now display a badge to let your customers know that your Windows Phone app is available in the Windows Phone Store!
Use this link to get all the details and download the Windows Phone Store badge.
The Windows Phone Store badge is intended to provide a clear way to communicate the availability of your app on the Windows Phone Store. The badge can be used in your print or digital media, and is made available in a number of colors, sizes, and digital formats. The following shows some examples of the badge.
Azure Data Factory announcements
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Azure Data Factory allows you to manage the production of trusted information by offering an easy way to create, orchestrate, and monitor data pipelines over the Hadoop ecosystem using structured, semi-structures and unstructured data sources.
You can connect to your on-premises SQL Server, Azure database, tables or blobs and create data pipelines that will process the data with Hive and Pig scripting, or custom C# processing. The service offers a holistic monitoring and management experience over these pipelines, including a view of their data production and data lineage down to the source systems.
The outcome of Data Factory is the transformation of raw data assets into trusted information that can be shared broadly with BI and analytics tools.
The MSDN forum will be used for general discussions for Getting Started, Development, Management, and Troubleshooting using Azure Data Factory.
ADO.NET DataSet announcements
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For people who are posting questions on this forum, here are a couple of questions to ask to understand if this forum is the best place to ask your question
1) If you have a question about how to connect to a database using Ado.Net, the Ado.Net Data Providers forum is the correct place make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/threads/
2) If you are having Databinding issues and not using a Dataset, DataTable or DataView, here is an appropriate forum to make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdatacontrols/threads/
3) For issues that occur when using Visual Studio and dragging and dropping within VS, here is an appropriate forum to make a Post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdesigner/threads/
4) If you have a question related to VB6 Data Access please proceed to the following Discussion group
Thanks
Chris Robinson
Dataset - PM
Bing Maps REST, SOAP, Spatial Data Services announcements
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As part of our ongoing efforts to improve performance and functionality of the Bing Maps Platform we are moving the delivery of Bing Maps tiles to an on-demand process which gives us a greater flexibility, enables us to shorten the refresh-cycles and will allow us further down the line among other things a more comprehensive localization of map labels.
Unfortunately along with these improvements comes the need to change the URL templates for tile requests. These changes will be implemented over the next 24 hours and are seamless, if you use one of our map controls. However, if you access our tiles directly or use a 3rd party control that does so, your application could be impacted.
Does your application require a code change?
Your application does not require a code change, if
- You use one of the Bing Maps controls (AJAX, Windows Store, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, iOS)
- You built your own map control and determine the URL-template using the SOAP Imagery service before you retrieve the tiles via http. This approach will also work for https if you use the optional parameter UriScheme in the ImageryMetadataOptions.
- You built your own map control and determine the URL-template using the REST Imagery service before you retrieve the tiles only via http.
- You use a 3rd party control that implements the tiles-requests as mentioned in 2 or 3.
Your application will require a code change, if:
- You built your own map control and have hard-coded parts of the URL template for the tile request.
- You built your own map control and use the REST Imagery service to generate the tile-request but also support the https endpoints.
- You built your own map control and use the SOAP Imagery service to generate the tile-request but also support https-endpoints and do not use the optional parameter Uri Scheme.
What is changing?
If you currently use the REST Imagery service to determine the URL template for tile-requests you execute a request like
http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Road?key=YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY
Today the response will look like the below JSON-object.
{ "authenticationResultCode":"ValidCredentials", "brandLogoUri":"http:\/\/dev.virtualearth.net\/Branding\/logo_powered_by.png", "copyright":"Copyright © 2013 Microsoft and its suppliers. All rights reserved. This API cannot be accessed and the content and any results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner without express written permission from Microsoft Corpora-tion.", "resourceSets":[ { "estimatedTotal":1, "resources":[ { "__type":"ImageryMetadata:http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/search\/local\/ws\/rest\/v1", "imageHeight":256, "imageUrl":"http:\/\/ecn.{subdomain}.tiles.virtualearth.net\/tiles\/r{quadkey}.jpeg?g=1515&mkt={culture}&shading=hill", "imageUrlSubdomains":["t0","t1","t2","t3"], "imageWidth":256, "imageryProviders":null, "vintageEnd":null, "vintageStart":null, "zoomMax":21, "zoomMin":1 }] }], "statusCode":200, "statusDescription":"OK", "traceId":"2b92bc58b25145a3bac1122061bf4188|BAYM000013|02.00.172.1500|" }The new URL-template for http-endpoints will look like:
{ "authenticationResultCode":"ValidCredentials", "brandLogoUri":"http:\/\/dev.virtualearth.net\/Branding\/logo_powered_by.png", "copyright":"Copyright © 2013 Microsoft and its suppliers. All rights reserved. This API cannot be accessed and the content and any results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner without express written permission from Microsoft Corpora-tion.", "resourceSets":[ { "estimatedTotal":1, "resources":[ { "__type":"ImageryMetadata:http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/search\/local\/ws\/rest\/v1", "imageHeight":256, "im-ageUrl":"http:\/\/ak.dynamic.{subdomain}.tiles.virtualearth.net\/comp\/ch\/{quadkey}?mkt={culture}&it=G,L&shading=hill&og=23&n=z", "imageUrlSubdomains":["t0","t1","t2","t3"], "imageWidth":256, "imageryProviders":null, "vintageEnd":null, "vintageStart":null, "zoomMax":21, "zoomMin":1 }] }], "statusCode":200, "statusDescription":"OK", "traceId":"be8d8bc69a4940e1aa4d403e4ec624fb|CO30275938|02.00.172.2900|" }Before the URL-template for http- and https-endpoints was the same and you only needed to replace the protocol in the tile-request. With the upcoming changes this is not so anymore and the URL-template is indeed different. For https-endpoints the request should now include a parameter uriScheme, e.g.https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Road?uriScheme=https&key=YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY
and the response in JSON-format will be:{ "authenticationResultCode":"ValidCredentials", "brandLogoUri":"http:\/\/dev.virtualearth.net\/Branding\/logo_powered_by.png", "copyright":"Copyright © 2013 Microsoft and its suppliers. All rights reserved. This API cannot be accessed and the content and any results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner without express written permission from Microsoft Corpora-tion.", "resourceSets":[ { "estimatedTotal":1, "resources":[ { "__type":"ImageryMetadata:http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/search\/local\/ws\/rest\/v1", "imageHeight":256, "imageUrl":"https:\/\/{subdomain}.ssl.ak.dynamic.tiles.virtualearth.net\/comp\/ch\/{quadkey}?mkt={culture}&it=G,L&shading=hill&og=23&n=z", "imageUrlSubdomains":["t0","t1","t2","t3"], "imageWidth":256, "imageryProviders":null, "vintageEnd":null, "vintageStart":null, "zoomMax":21,"zoomMin":1 }] }], "statusCode":200, "statusDescription":"OK", "traceId":"86eabdc0d1ec4dca8281fca3c9b48668|CO30276241|02.00.172.2900|" }
Bing Maps REST, SOAP, Spatial Data Services announcements
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As part of our ongoing efforts to improve performance and functionality of the Bing Maps Platform we are moving the delivery of Bing Maps tiles to an on-demand process which gives us a greater flexibility, enables us to shorten the refresh-cycles and will allow us further down the line among other things a more comprehensive localization of map labels.
Unfortunately along with these improvements comes the need to change the URL templates for tile requests. These changes will be implemented over the next 24 hours and are seamless, if you use one of our map controls. However, if you access our tiles directly or use a 3rd party control that does so, your application could be impacted.
Does your application require a code change?
Your application does not require a code change, if
- You use one of the Bing Maps controls (AJAX, Windows Store, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, iOS)
- You built your own map control and determine the URL-template using the SOAP Imagery service before you retrieve the tiles via http. This approach will also work for https if you use the optional parameter UriScheme in the ImageryMetadataOptions.
- You built your own map control and determine the URL-template using the REST Imagery service before you retrieve the tiles only via http.
- You use a 3rd party control that implements the tiles-requests as mentioned in 2 or 3.
Your application will require a code change, if:
- You built your own map control and have hard-coded parts of the URL template for the tile request.
- You built your own map control and use the REST Imagery service to generate the tile-request but also support the https endpoints.
- You built your own map control and use the SOAP Imagery service to generate the tile-request but also support https-endpoints and do not use the optional parameter Uri Scheme.
What is changing?
If you currently use the REST Imagery service to determine the URL template for tile-requests you execute a request like
http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Road?key=YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY
Today the response will look like the below JSON-object.
{ "authenticationResultCode":"ValidCredentials", "brandLogoUri":"http:\/\/dev.virtualearth.net\/Branding\/logo_powered_by.png", "copyright":"Copyright © 2013 Microsoft and its suppliers. All rights reserved. This API cannot be accessed and the content and any results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner without express written permission from Microsoft Corpora-tion.", "resourceSets":[ { "estimatedTotal":1, "resources":[ { "__type":"ImageryMetadata:http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/search\/local\/ws\/rest\/v1", "imageHeight":256, "imageUrl":"http:\/\/ecn.{subdomain}.tiles.virtualearth.net\/tiles\/r{quadkey}.jpeg?g=1515&mkt={culture}&shading=hill", "imageUrlSubdomains":["t0","t1","t2","t3"], "imageWidth":256, "imageryProviders":null, "vintageEnd":null, "vintageStart":null, "zoomMax":21, "zoomMin":1 }] }], "statusCode":200, "statusDescription":"OK", "traceId":"2b92bc58b25145a3bac1122061bf4188|BAYM000013|02.00.172.1500|" }The new URL-template for http-endpoints will look like:
{ "authenticationResultCode":"ValidCredentials", "brandLogoUri":"http:\/\/dev.virtualearth.net\/Branding\/logo_powered_by.png", "copyright":"Copyright © 2013 Microsoft and its suppliers. All rights reserved. This API cannot be accessed and the content and any results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner without express written permission from Microsoft Corpora-tion.", "resourceSets":[ { "estimatedTotal":1, "resources":[ { "__type":"ImageryMetadata:http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/search\/local\/ws\/rest\/v1", "imageHeight":256, "im-ageUrl":"http:\/\/ak.dynamic.{subdomain}.tiles.virtualearth.net\/comp\/ch\/{quadkey}?mkt={culture}&it=G,L&shading=hill&og=23&n=z", "imageUrlSubdomains":["t0","t1","t2","t3"], "imageWidth":256, "imageryProviders":null, "vintageEnd":null, "vintageStart":null, "zoomMax":21, "zoomMin":1 }] }], "statusCode":200, "statusDescription":"OK", "traceId":"be8d8bc69a4940e1aa4d403e4ec624fb|CO30275938|02.00.172.2900|" }Before the URL-template for http- and https-endpoints was the same and you only needed to replace the protocol in the tile-request. With the upcoming changes this is not so anymore and the URL-template is indeed different. For https-endpoints the request should now include a parameter uriScheme, e.g.https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Road?uriScheme=https&key=YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY
and the response in JSON-format will be:{ "authenticationResultCode":"ValidCredentials", "brandLogoUri":"http:\/\/dev.virtualearth.net\/Branding\/logo_powered_by.png", "copyright":"Copyright © 2013 Microsoft and its suppliers. All rights reserved. This API cannot be accessed and the content and any results may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner without express written permission from Microsoft Corpora-tion.", "resourceSets":[ { "estimatedTotal":1, "resources":[ { "__type":"ImageryMetadata:http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/search\/local\/ws\/rest\/v1", "imageHeight":256, "imageUrl":"https:\/\/{subdomain}.ssl.ak.dynamic.tiles.virtualearth.net\/comp\/ch\/{quadkey}?mkt={culture}&it=G,L&shading=hill&og=23&n=z", "imageUrlSubdomains":["t0","t1","t2","t3"], "imageWidth":256, "imageryProviders":null, "vintageEnd":null, "vintageStart":null, "zoomMax":21,"zoomMin":1 }] }], "statusCode":200, "statusDescription":"OK", "traceId":"86eabdc0d1ec4dca8281fca3c9b48668|CO30276241|02.00.172.2900|" }
Code Contracts announcements
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Better inference of object invariants for the static checker!
Some bug fixes!
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
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New checks, improved performances for the static checker
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
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Dear CC users,
we are glad to announce the birth of a new blog on CodeContracts, static analysis etc: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/francesco/
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It has taken a long time, we know, but we have finally released the contract editor extensions for VS2012 and an update to VS2010.
The new version is much more stable and less CPU consuming than previously and hopefully much more useful as a result.
For VS2012: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/02de7066-b6ca-42b3-8b3c-2562c7fa024f
For VS2010: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/85f0aa38-a8a8-4811-8b86-e7f0b8d8c71b
If you haven't tried it yet, then please do and let us know what you think!
To review, the extensions should show you method contracts in the following situations:
- While you are typing a call to a method: the signature helper window should show you each overload's contract in the same window as the signature and exception information.
- Hovering over an existing method call: the quick info window should show you the method's contract in addition to its summary information.
- Method override and interface implementation definitions: hover over the method name in the signature to see the tooltip of the contracts inherited (or defined in the method).
- Metadata windows: if you "go to definition" for a type/method that is defined in an external assembly then the metadata window that VS creates should be augmented with method contracts.
Enjoy.
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We have added a section to our web site listing the external projects that we know about which are using Code Contracts. If you would like your project listed, please send us a link and we'll add it to the list. This would really help us in our efforts to get the project more fully supported by the product groups.
Thanks!
Mike
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We are so happy that you are interested in Code Contracts! You are at exactly the right place for learning how to use contracts from any .NET language to:
- Specify method preconditions for expressing conditions that a caller must meet in order to call a method.
- Specify method postconditions for expressing conditions that the implementation of a method must meet before returning. Conditions can be specified for both normal termination as well as exceptional termination.
- Specify object invariants that describe the healthy states for an instance of a class.
We currently provide three tools for making use of contracts:
- A binary rewriter that operates as a post-build step to inject the contracts into the appropriate places for them to be evaluated at runtime.
- A static checker that operates as a post-build step to analyze your code without even executing it for potential contract violations.
- A documentation generator that adds information about the contracts to the XML documentation files for your project.
The installer for these tools is available for either commercial or non-commercial use.
We welcome you to use the forum to ask questions about how to use contracts and the tools, to make suggestions for how we can improve, and --- if you really must --- to report bugs and problems.
You can also check out our home page at Microsoft Research.
Expression Design announcements
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Expression Design announcements
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Visual Studio General Questions announcements
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The following forums have been merged into this forum: Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, Visual Studio Report Controls, and Visual Studio Editor.
MSDN Subscriptions Feedback announcements
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Welcome to the new MSDN Subscriptions Forum!
Feel free to post here if you have questions or comments about the MSDN Subscription, including MSDN Subscriber Downloads, DVD Media, Subscription Levels, Product keys, or anything else Subscription related!
If your post is not related to MSDN Subscriptions, or if you're not sure where to post your question, a great place to post is the Where is the Forum for...? forum at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whatforum.
Questions about the forums experience should be posted in the Forums Issues forum at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/threads
Secure Download Manager posts are off topic for the MSDN Subscriptions Feedback forum. Students having issues with the SDM should email dreamspark@kivuto.com and be sure to enter “SDM issue” on the subject line of their message. SDM Issue emails must include:
- Order #
- A detailed description of the problem, including steps taken and error message. Screenshots are highly preferred.
DreamSpark Students having any other issue with the service need to get help from their Program Administrator. Contact the Program Administrator by clicking the help link at the top of the student Webstore, and then scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking Contact Us.
Looking forward to chatting!
Thanks,
Mike
MSDN Subscriptions Feedback announcements
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Welcome to the new MSDN Subscriptions Forum!
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Standard 2009: Tools announcements
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I am very pleased to announce that Richard John Eaton, one of the most active contributors in this forum, to be our first Answerer!
With this role, Richard will help us manage the forum and other creative community activities.
I know it's a not fancy title, but it's a recognition from us for his great support in the community. We hope Richard can help us move this forum to the next level. And then he'll be moved to the next level too, to be a "Moderator". (Come on, that one is fancier :P)
Here is Richard in his own word:40 something geek, with a severe interest in computers, Gadgets, off roading and gardening.
Lead developer at Steatite for Embedded Solutions. Having been employed there since his return from Russia in 2005.
Go Richard!
Weijuan
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcements
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For details, see the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/04/10/vsto-runtime-update-to-address-slow-shutdown-and-unknown-publisher-for-sha256-certificates.aspx
This release fixes:
1. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using touch-enabled
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
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The newest version of Visual Studio - 2013 - is now available.
For VSTO developers in particular, new in this release is the ability to code-sign VSTO solutions with SHA-256 certificates. The latest release also supports Office 2013 right-out-of-the-box without requiring a separate download, and the Office 2013 templates can now target the latest .NET Framework 4.5.1.
Visual Studio 2013 also delivers a broad set of tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint. Some highlights include the ability to create MVC SharePoint apps, enhancements around app-publishing, and a new set of tooling around Cloud Business Apps that integrate seamlessly with Office 365 services. Learn more on the apps for Office and SharePoint blog.
Tip:
Just like Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 continues to support the Office 2010 templates. However, to reduce clutter, we have re-categorized the project templates according to the .NET Framework version that they support. So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0".We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2013 and the many great features that this IDE has to offer!
~ Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript announcements
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A new version of the Windows ACK (and the SDK) is now available to download. This new version of the ACK will be enforced by the Store certification system in December, but you can start using it right now to improve the quality of your applications. Among other new tests and improvements, this new version will verify that the app icon shown in the Store is not the default one. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/hh852363
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Designing websites has been a common practice for decades. With Windows 8 Consumer Preview, designers and developers can use the web technologies they are familiar with, including HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and JavaScript, to build Metro style apps for Windows. Here we explore how to expose the capabilities of a website to make it a great Metro style app for Windows 8 and show ways to provide additional value, personalization, and richer experiences using features of the Windows 8 platform.
Our aim is to help designers and developers reimagine their websites as Metro style apps.
Payouts and Reporting announcements
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Update 11/12:
The investigation has concluded and the fix is being implemented. Data from 11/8 is now visible and accessible in Windows Dev Center, and subsequent days of data will be loaded as they become available. We will restore data from 10/23-11/7 in December.
Impacted data:
- Downloads Report
- In-App Purchases Report
- Downloads/In-App Purchases charts on App Summary page
- Lifetime downloads numbers
- Adoption Charts: Conversion and Listing views by referrer
Please Note: This is a Windows Store reporting issue, and it will NOT impact your payouts. Windows Phone reporting is NOT impacted by this issue.
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We are aware of potential drops in the download data related to the Windows Store. The drops appear to impact report values beginning the last week of October. Teams are engaged to further investigate the cause of the issue and dates impacted. A resolution will be designed following that investigation.
Impacts:
- Downloads Report
- In-App Purchases Report
- Downloads/In-App Purchases charts on App Summary page
- Lifetime downloads numbers
Please Note: This is a reporting issue. Financial data is NOT impacted by this issue.
When updates become available, they will be added to this post.
C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
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Word for Developers announcements
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VBA. Rest assured that VBA continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO & VBA for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
WebsitePanel - Development announcements
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Dear friends,
Welcome to WebsitePanel community forums! These forums provide you an opportunity to join WebsitePanel users and share knowledge, get questions answered and learn from other WebsitePanel cutomers. Start by posting WebsitePanel related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to WebsitePanel, please feel free to post in our forums.
WebsitePanel - Development announcements
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Dear friends,
Welcome to WebsitePanel community forums! These forums provide you an opportunity to join WebsitePanel users and share knowledge, get questions answered and learn from other WebsitePanel cutomers. Start by posting WebsitePanel related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.
If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to WebsitePanel, please feel free to post in our forums.
Message Analyzer announcements
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We are pleased to announce that Message Analyzer 1.1 has released. Please view the blog which has all the information about the new release, including links to the download, summary of features, and link to a video which provides a high level introduction.
Thanks,
Message Analyzer Team
Microsoft Robotics - Simulation announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Microsoft Robotics - Simulation announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Windows Live Messenger Web APIs: Development announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.7 has been released.
See our blog posting for more information.
http://blogs.msdn.com/messenger/archive/2010/02/02/introducing-windows-live-messenger-web-toolkit-v3-7.aspx
Thanks for supporting the Messenger Web Toolkit!
Keiji
SQL Server Reporting Services, Power View announcements
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We have released a beta version of the Reporting Services Migration Tool. The tool is available for download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29560
This tool essentially allows you to create a backup store of a native mode Report Server and then migrate that content to a SharePoint-integrated mode Report Server. Migrated content includes all report items (reports, shared data sources, models, shared datasets, report parts), along with associated metadata (shared schedules, subscriptions, history snapshots, etc.). Some additional details are in this blog post, along with the download link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jameswu/archive/2012/04/21/reporting-services-migration-tool.aspx
We are working on enabling more features in this tool, so feel free to share any feedback or report any issues. Thanks!
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SQL Server 2012 has been released in early 2012.
This post summarizes much of the new functionality in Power View with RC0. A few more capabilities were added in the RTM Version.
Multiple Views in a Single Report
You asked for it, and we are delivering it! Power View reports now support multiple views per report. The report pictured below contains a total of five views that you can see previews of to the left of the canvas.
Export to Microsoft PowerPoint
Along with the ability to create reports with multiple views, you can also export your report to PowerPoint. These are not just static images. Power View reports inside PowerPoint are fully interactive.
PowerPivot Gallery Preview Images
Power View now produces preview images in the PowerPivot Gallery, just like Excel workbooks. They are supported in all views of the PowerPivot Gallery (gallery, theater and carousel).
In addition, now that Power View reports support multiple views in a single report, when you click on a specific view of the report, Power View will launch with that view as the active view.Storyboard
When you are presenting reports with multiple views in them, there is way to navigate the views in a report called storyboard. Just hover to preview any of the views and select the one you want to display.
Sorting
We are certain you saw this one coming, but Power View now supports sorting on all data regions. On tables and matrices, all you have to do is click on the column headers to sort. For charts, there is an area above the chart that we call the “floatie” that allows you to choose to sort the chart by a measure or its categories.
For charts that are displayed as multiples, you can sort those too. For multiples, sorting sorts the charts themselves by a subtotal, and of course, it’s just a click away via the floatie as well.
More Chart Features
Power View has added more functionality to charts. In particular, charts now support
• more than 20 series,
• multiple measures,
• and color (series) in scatter and bubble charts.
The chart below shows multiple measures in action, depicting the average win percentage of major league baseball both at home and on the road over a set of years.
In the next chart, you can see colors assigned on the scatterplot.
Of course, the feature works with legend highlighting as well. Select a market size from the legend and all of the points associated with that entry will be highlighted in the chart.
Chart Highlighting Enhancements
There is also significant change to the highlighting feature with charts. When your column and bar charts contain non additive data, Power View will now display the highlighted values with a thinner column that is overlaid on top of the previous values. This is done to make it possible to see the previous values, regardless of the highlighted values.
It also makes it possible to see cases where the selected item from another visual has no representation in the chart. For example, in the chart below, not only can we see how Expressjet compares against the average of all carriers for flights delayed by carrier, but we also can see that Expressjet did not operate any routes greater than 1,500 miles.
Number Formatting for Tables and Matrix
Power View now supports number formatting on both tables and matrix.
Slicers Cross Filter Other Slicers
When you have multiple slicers on a view now, if you select an entry in one slicer, the other slicers in the view are filtered by it.
Per Data Region Filtering
Filtering improvements are available in RC0. Power View now supports filters on each data region. The picture below shows the chart region filter selected in the filter pane. If you want to switch to filtering the entire view, just hover over the grey “view” text and select it and you’ll be on your way to filtering the entire view.
Measure Filters and Filter Restatement
There are two other new features in the filter pane depicted above as well. The filter pane now supports measure filters and will also restate your filters even when a specific filter is in its collapsed state.
Search in Filters
But we’re not done yet. Have a long list of categories that you don’t want to wade through, use the search feature.
Drag Your Data to the Canvas
You can now drag fields directly to the canvas from the model explorer. If you hover the field over the canvas, it will create a new table. If you hover the field over an existing visualization, it will add that field to the next logical location in the visualization.
Print it!
You can now print your current view. Print is “what you see is what you get”.
Support for DirectQuery mode
DirectQuery mode for Analysis Services tabular models allows you to keep your data in a SQL Server relational database and still get the benefits of interactive reporting with Power View. You can read all about direct query mode here.
Database Image Support
Power View now supports database images stored directly in the model.
Show Items with No Data
Often referred to as “outer join”, Power View now supports the ability to display items with no data. The table below shows this feature in action.
And just like everything else in Power View, this feature is just a click away in the field well.
Measures as Non-Measures
PowerView also supports the ability to treat measures as non-measures (i.e. as categories). To do this, you just go to the field well and choose the option on the field to “Do Not Summarize” as shown below.
Below is an example of a report showing the count of airline flights by minutes late. Minutes late is a measure in the table on the left. The table on the right is the same table with the “Do Not Summarize” feature turned on.
All New Canvas Look
We’ve changed the overall look of the canvas and many of the items that you can place on the canvas. Here are a couple of examples of the new look in action.
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Last Update: Mar 4, 2011.
SQL Server 2008 R2 was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2010. You can read more about it here.
Downloads available:
- Report Builder 3.0 RTM
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Developer Trial Edition
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Express Edition with Advanced Services
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Documentation
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Feature Pack (with Report Builder and PowerPivot for Excel 2010)
- Reporting Services 2008 R2 Add-in for SharePoint 2010
- Visual Studio 2010 Report Viewer Redistributable
Cumulative Updates:
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SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #5 (build 10.50.1753)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #4 (build 10.50.1746)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.50.1734)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.50.1720)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.50.1702)
You can read about specific new Reporting Services features added in November CTP on top of what was available in August CTP. You can research and ask questions on the dedicated MSDN forum.
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Last update: Mar 27, 2011.
Get an overview and the latest information on Reporting Services 2008 at the MSDN aggregation page for Reporting Services!
Important downloads for Reporting Services 2008:
SP2:
- Report Builder 2.0 (SP2 Download)
for Reporting Services 2008 (build 10.00.4000)
- SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.00.4279)
- SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.00.4272)
- SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.00.4266)
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP2
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP2 Express
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP2 Feature Packs
- RS 2008 SP2 Add-In for SharePoint Integrated Mode (build 10.00.4000)
Note: updates for the SharePoint add-in are available for each CU as well, just make sure to select the "..._RSSharepoin" download package.
SP1:
- RS 2008 SP1 Add-In for SharePoint Integrated Mode (build 10.00.2531)
Note: updates for the SharePoint add-in are available for each CU as well, just make sure to select the "..._RSSharepoin" download package.
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #13 (build 10.00.2816)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #12 (build 10.00.2808)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #11 (build 10.00.2804)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #10 (build 10.00.2799)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #9 (build 10.00.2789)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #8 (build 10.00.2775)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #7 (build 10.00.2766)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #6 (build 10.00.2757)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #5 (build 10.00.2746)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #4 (build 10.00.2734)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.00.2723)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.00.2714)
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.00.2710)
- SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (build 10.00.2531)
RTM:
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #10 (build 10.00.1835)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #9 (build 10.00.1828)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #8 (build 10.00.1823)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #7 (build 10.00.1818)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #6 (build 10.00.1812)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #5 (build 10.00.1806)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #4 (build 10.00.1798)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #3 (build 10.00.1787)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #2 (build 10.00.1779)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM Cumulative Update #1 (build 10.00.1763)
- SQL Server 2008 RTM (build 10.00.1600.22)
- Updated SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009 Update)
Also check related discussion threads in this forum about the Reporting Services 2008 release, and Report Builder 2.0 release. - Report Builder 2.0 (SP2 Download)
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MSDN information aggregator site for Reporting Services 2005.
Important downloads for Reporting Services 2005:
SP4:
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update #3 (build 9.00.5266)
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update #2 (build 9.00.5259)
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update #1 (build 9.00.5254)
- SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM, Express Edition RTM (build 9.00.5000)
SP3:
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #15 (build 9.00.4325)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #14 (build 9.00.4317)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #13 (build 9.00.4315)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #12 (build 9.00.4311)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #11 (build 9.00.4309)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #10 (build 9.00.4305)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #9 (build 9.00.4294)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #8 (build 9.00.4285)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #7 (build 9.00.4273)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #6 (build 9.00.4266)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #5 (build 9.00.4230)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #4 (build 9.00.4226)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #3 (build 9.00.4220)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #2 (build 9.00.4211)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #1 (build 9.00.4207)
- SQL Server 2005 SP3 RTM (build 9.00.4035)
SP2:
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #17 (build 9.00.3356) - Final CU for SP2
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #16 (build 9.00.3355)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #15 (build 9.00.3330)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #14 (build 9.00.3328)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #13 (build 9.00.3325)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #12 (build 9.00.3315)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 Cumulative Update #11 (build 9.00.3301)
- SQL Server 2005 SP2 RTM (build 9.00.3042)
- RS Add-in for SharePoint Integrated Mode (SP3 download, SP2 download)
- SQL Server 2005 Books Online (December 2008 Update)
ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects announcements
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I've posted a new blog entry about ClickOnce and Windows 8 and the Smart Screen filter. I collaborated with someone at Microsoft to create this; I hope it's helpful.
http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/windows-8-and-clickonce-the-definitive-answer-2/
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In Visual Studio 2010, we have partnered with Flexera, makers of InstallShield, to create InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 just for Visual Studio 2010 customers. The InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 offers comparable functionality to the Visual Studio Installer projects. In addition, you can build your deployment projects using Team Foundation Server and MSBuild. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deployment_technologies/archive/2010/04/20/installshield-limited-edition-is-available-for-download-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx.
With InstallShield available, the Visual Studio Installer project types will not be available in future versions of Visual Studio. To preserve existing customer investments in Visual Studio Installer projects, Microsoft will continue to support the Visual Studio Installer projects feature that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 and below as per our product life-cycle strategy. For more information, see Expanded Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy for Business & Development Products.
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The InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition is a free version of InstallShield for Visual Studio developers that replaces the functionality provided by the Visual Studio setup and deployment projects.
Here are some highlights of the product:
• Use Visual Studio to create installation projects for applications built with Visual Studio.
• Build your installation projects with MSBuild
• Jumpstart projects with a simple design environment and Project Assistant.
• Take advantage of Installation Prerequisites and Custom Actions.
• Digitally sign your installers.
Need a feature that is not supported in the Visual Studio deployment projects? Try the InstallShield Limited Edition. You can easily migrate your existing Visual Studio deployment projects into InstallShield Limited Edition installation projects with a few clicks. The installation projects created with the InstallShield Limited Edition are compatible with other versions of InstallShield products. This enables you to upgrade to higher version of InstallShield with a more advanced feature set.
To obtain the InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition, complete the following steps:
1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
2. Expand the Other Project Types node.
3. Expand the Setup and Deployment node.
4. Click InstallShield LE.
5. Click Enable InstallShield Limited Edition, and then click OK.
6. Click Go to InstallShield.
Note: You must register by using your email address before downloading the product.
Windows Performance Toolkit announcements
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Please keep your posts specific to performance analysis. All unrelated posts will be moved to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/threads, without warning. Repeated off-topic posts will be reported as abuse of this forum. Please use your favorite search engine to find the right forum for your question. If your question isn't about Windows performance, then you shouldn't post here.
Let's build a performance analysis community here :)
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FYI, the WinHEC 2008 DVD is now available for purchase at
http://shop.ecompanystore.com/mseventdvd/MSD_productdetail.asp?EventID=70882&TYPE=WinHEC%202008 (down to just $79 from the standard price of $495!).
There is a very good session on how to use XPerf on this DVD called Windows Performance Analysis: Using Windows Performance Tools [WinHEC 2008; 5.3 MB]. Slides are available to download for free at the above hyper link.
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Welcome to the Windows Performance Toolkit forum!
As part of Microsoft's initiative to help its partners and customers improve the performance of their Windows systems, Windows group has released in Feb'08 the Windows Performance Toolkit. Version 4.1 of this toolkit has shipped in the Windows Server 2008 SDK and subsequent v.4.1.1 update has been made available on WHDC at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/perftools.mspx.
This toolkit isn't for everyone - to use it effectively, you need to have a grasp of the basic OS internals such as processes, threads, DPCs (deferred procedure calls), ISRs (interrupt service routines), I/O subsystem, registry, etc. Yet one need not be a system developer to use it either. First level triage (e.g. which component is responsible for system slowdown?, is it a CPU or a disk usage issue?, etc.) can often be done with only the basic understanding of the above mentioned concepts, something people usually cover in an introductory 101 OS course. An expert in that area, can then use the same toolkit to dig deeper into the issue, root-cause it, and work on providing a fix for it. A great reference for understanding OS Internals is the Microsoft Windows Internals (4th edition) book from Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. We highly recommend you get a copy if you plan on using this toolkit routinely.You can use this forum to ask questions about the toolkit, as well as share tips and tricks with other users on how you've used it successfully in the past. We are hoping that this forum will help build a vibrant environment of performance analyst hobbists and professionals alike, where you can find support from both the Microsoft team shipping these tools to you as well as the MVPs using it on a daily basis.
The toolkit comes with MSDN documentation available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139734.aspx. We recommend you consult it before asking questions on this forum. We would also like to hear feedback from you on our documentation - what are we missing, is something incorrect in the documentation, etc. You can provide it by sending email to wptkdocf@microsoft.com.
Happy tracing!
-WPT Team
Windows Performance Toolkit announcements
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Let's build a performance analysis community here :)
Cheers,
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FYI, the WinHEC 2008 DVD is now available for purchase at
http://shop.ecompanystore.com/mseventdvd/MSD_productdetail.asp?EventID=70882&TYPE=WinHEC%202008 (down to just $79 from the standard price of $495!).
There is a very good session on how to use XPerf on this DVD called Windows Performance Analysis: Using Windows Performance Tools [WinHEC 2008; 5.3 MB]. Slides are available to download for free at the above hyper link.
Keep on tracing,
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Welcome to the Windows Performance Toolkit forum!
As part of Microsoft's initiative to help its partners and customers improve the performance of their Windows systems, Windows group has released in Feb'08 the Windows Performance Toolkit. Version 4.1 of this toolkit has shipped in the Windows Server 2008 SDK and subsequent v.4.1.1 update has been made available on WHDC at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/perftools.mspx.
This toolkit isn't for everyone - to use it effectively, you need to have a grasp of the basic OS internals such as processes, threads, DPCs (deferred procedure calls), ISRs (interrupt service routines), I/O subsystem, registry, etc. Yet one need not be a system developer to use it either. First level triage (e.g. which component is responsible for system slowdown?, is it a CPU or a disk usage issue?, etc.) can often be done with only the basic understanding of the above mentioned concepts, something people usually cover in an introductory 101 OS course. An expert in that area, can then use the same toolkit to dig deeper into the issue, root-cause it, and work on providing a fix for it. A great reference for understanding OS Internals is the Microsoft Windows Internals (4th edition) book from Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. We highly recommend you get a copy if you plan on using this toolkit routinely.You can use this forum to ask questions about the toolkit, as well as share tips and tricks with other users on how you've used it successfully in the past. We are hoping that this forum will help build a vibrant environment of performance analyst hobbists and professionals alike, where you can find support from both the Microsoft team shipping these tools to you as well as the MVPs using it on a daily basis.
The toolkit comes with MSDN documentation available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139734.aspx. We recommend you consult it before asking questions on this forum. We would also like to hear feedback from you on our documentation - what are we missing, is something incorrect in the documentation, etc. You can provide it by sending email to wptkdocf@microsoft.com.
Happy tracing!
-WPT Team
Open Specifications Questions announcements
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The October 2014 release contains updates made to Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Standards documents since July 2014.
Exchange Server Protocol Documents links
- Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols Documentation
- Summary of changes (PDF) – [MS-OXCHGTR]
Exchange Server and Outlook Standards links
- Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documentation
- Summary of changes (PDF) – [MS-STANOXCHGTR]
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
- None.
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The October 2014 release contains updates made to Microsoft Office Protocols documents since July 2014.
In addition to the regular documentation updates, the MS-OI29500 document was updated to reflect ISO/IEC-29500:2012.
Microsoft Office File Formats links:
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office File Formats Documentation
- Summary of changes (pdf): [MS-FFCHGTR]
Microsoft Office Protocols links:
- Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft Office Protocols Documentation
- Summary of changes (pdf): [MS-OCHGTR]
SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols links:
- Full documentation set (zip): SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols Documentation
- Summary of changes (pdf): [MS-SPCHGTR]
Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support links:
- Full documentation set (zip): Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support Documentation
- Summary of changes (pdf): [MS-OSTANCHGTR]
The following new specifications have been added:
- None.
The following Office protocols have been archived:
- None.
The following known issues exist in this release:
None.
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This Preview release contains updates made to protocol documents since the last release.
The following known issues exist in the October 2014 release:
- Underscore characters are not always visible in code in the PDF files depending on the magnification selected by the user. Those characters are present in printed versions.
- Information in a table row may split across two pages.
- Table borders are not always visible depending upon the magnification selected by the user. Borders are present in printed versions of the PDF.
- Cross-protocol links are only functional when the PDF files for the protocols are in the same folder.
Note: Links in the PDFs don’t resolve in Adobe Reader 9 because Adobe has changed the default setting for view mode in Adobe Reader 9. To access links, perform the following procedure:
- In Adobe Reader 9, go to the Edit menu and click Preferences.
- In the Categories list, click Documents. Under PDF/A View Mode, change the selection from Only for PDF/A documents to Never, and click OK.
Additional details on changing the setting are located on the Adobe help site:
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This release contains new and updated documents for Windows Technical Preview. These documents are available in PDF format on the Preview Specifications page on MSDN.
The following Windows protocol documents are new in this release:
- [MS-NCP-Preview]: Network Controller Protocol
- [MS-RNAS-Preview]: Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes for Network Policy and Access Server (NPAS) Data Structure
- [MS-SQOS-Preview]: Storage Quality of Service Protocol
- [MS-WDHCE-Preview]: Wi-Fi Display Protocol: Hardware Cursor Extension
The following Windows protocol documents were previously released and have been updated. They contain revision marks that show changes due to the Windows Technical Preview, as well as document updates made since those documents were last published on 5/15/2014. Additions are shown in red text; deletions are shown as strikethrough text.
- [MS-ADA2-Diff]: Active Directory Schema Attributes M
- [MS-ADFSPIP-Diff]: Active Directory Federation Services and Proxy Integration Protocol
- [MS-ADSC-Diff]: Active Directory Schema Classes
- [MS-ADTS-Diff]: Active Directory Technical Specification
- [MS-CMRP-Diff]: Failover Cluster: Management API (ClusAPI) Protocol
- [MS-DHCPM-Diff]: Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server Management Protocol
- [MS-DNSP-Diff]: Domain Name Service (DNS) Server Management Protocol
- [MS-DSCPM-Diff]: Desired State Configuration Pull Model Protocol
- [MS-ECS-Diff]: Enterprise Client Synchronization Protocol
- [MS-FASP-Diff]: Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol
- [MS-FSA-Diff]: File System Algorithms
- [MS-FSCC-Diff]: File System Control Codes
- [MS-GPFAS-Diff]: Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure
- [MS-LCID-Diff]: Windows Language Code Identifier (LCID) Reference
- [MS-LWSSP-Diff]: Lightweight Web Services Security Profile
- [MS-NRPC-Diff]: Netlogon Remote Protocol
- [MS-PSRDP-Diff]: PowerShell Remote Debugging Protocol
- [MS-RDPEGFX-Diff]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Graphics Pipeline Extension
- [MS-RPRN-Diff]: Print System Remote Protocol
- [MS-RSVD-Diff]: Remote Shared Virtual Disk Protocol
- [MS-SMB2-Diff]: Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3
- [MS-SSTP-Diff]: Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
- [MS-TPMVSC-Diff]: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Virtual Smart Card Management Protocol
- [MS-TSGU-Diff]: Terminal Services Gateway Server Protocol
- [MS-WCFESAN-Diff]: WCF-Based Encrypted Server Administration and Notification Protocol
The following Office protocol document was previously released and has been updated for Windows Technical Preview:
- [MS-WSSHP]: HTTP Windows SharePoint Services Headers Protocol
Building Windows Store apps with C# or VB announcements
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Expression Encoder announcements
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
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Expression Encoder 4 SP2 is out! [11/2011]
A new service pack is now available for Expression Encoder 4, which includes over 300 bug fixes as well as these new features:- Intel QSV GPU encoding and improved Cuda GPU encoding (Pro only) - More information available here, (QSV and Cuda performance reports are also available).
- 1 and 2-pass VBR for offline H.264 encodes (Pro only)
- More AAC audio options (Pro only)
- SRS audio encoding
- Manage publishing points from within Expression Encoder (Pro only)
- Live crop
- Windows Media Streaming MBR
- Live H.264 VBR 1-pass (Pro only)
- No Screen Capture limit
- Follow mouse cursor
- Template improvements
- New SDK samples
More information about the new features is available here.Expression Encoder 4 SP1 is out! [1/2011]
The English version of Expression Encoder 4 SP1 has been released and is available here. Other languages will be released shortly.To install, simply run setup on top of a pre-existing Expression Encoder 4 installation or install it from scratch. If already installed, your license will not be affected.Besides multiple bug fixes, here are the new features for this release:- GPU Encoding (Pro only)- Live Template Support (Pro only)- Live Screen Capture- Caption Updates (Pro only)- Improved De-interlacing Options- DRM Content Key (Pro only)- HE-AAC encoding (Pro only)- Live Push/Pull- Windows Phone 7 PresetsMore information about the new features is available here.Expression Encoder Blog entry on SP1 release can be found here.A couple of white papers about GPU Encoding are available here (general) and there (performance report).Performance Assessment Tool for Live Smooth Streaming Available [9/2010]
We have created a free tool that enables Encoder 4 Pro users to roughly assess what kind of load their encoding workstation can withstand with the supplied specific sources. The tool also enables saving the files that succeeded the encode. It's available here to download.On a separate note, Jamie Lang posted a white paper on Live Smooth Streaming here.Screen Capture Codec Available [5/2010]Also available is the standalone Screen Capture codec installer, available here, which can be freely redistributed. This will enable any DShow-based application, including Movie Maker, DVD Maker and Windows Media Player, to consume the XESC files that the Expression Encoder Screen Capture application outputs.Encoder SKUs [4/2010]
There are three SKU tiers for Expression Encoder 4:- Expression Encoder 4: the base SKU (free). This can be downloaded here.- Expression Encoder 4 Pro without Codecs: includes all features from the base SKU, plus DRM, Live Smooth Streaming and unlimited screen capture (the free version is limited to 10 minutes). This is typically available via some Spark SKUs and MSDN.- Expression Encoder 4 Pro: includes all features from above, plus all licensed decoders and H.264/AAC encoding. This SKU is available for purchase here. It's also available as a free upgrade from Encoder v3 with IIS Smooth Streaming (see below).Unfortunately, the premium codecs that we shipped in the full Pro version cannot be distributed via MSDN due to codec licensing agreements.Here is a list of the codecs in question:- Decoders: MPEG2, MPEG/TS Splitter, Dolby Digital (AC3), MP4, H.264 and AAC- Encoders: MP4 and H.264-based Smooth StreamingNote: While the full-featured Pro SKU is required to get H.264 encoding functionality, 3rd party DShow decoders can be used to import the file formats above. It is also worth noting that some of those decoders may already be available on some operating systems.More information about the SKU differences can be found here.Upgrading [4/2010]
Whether you installed the free base SKU or got the Expression Encoder 4 without Codecs SKU and are interested in upgrading to Encoder 4 Pro, simply purchase Expression Encoder 4 Pro here and enter the new key in the application to enabled the codecs and the Pro-only feature.If you owned either the full retail version of Encoder 3 with IIS Smooth Streaming or the retail full-featured Expression Studio SKU, you can upgrade to Encoder 4 Pro for free. Simply install the base Expression Encoder 4 from here on your PC that has the full retail version of Encoder 3 with IIS Smooth Streaming and your license will automatically be upgraded to the full-featured 4 Pro version. Please also note that both versions of Encoder 3 and 4 can coexist on the same PC, so there is no need to uninstall v3.Unfortunately, this free upgrade is not available for Web Studio 3 users or MSDN subscriptions.More information about the free upgrade is available here.New Features in Expression Encoder 4 [4/2010]
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the new features available in this new version:- New H.264 Encoder (Pro only)- High Profile Support- Advanced Settings- Increased Performance dramatically- Live- Better device support- Live Smooth Streaming Support (Pro only)- Redesigned UI- Statistics & Connections Panel- Multi-cast support- Screen Capture (Unlimited in Pro only)- New SDK- Better workflow/Capture Management- Zoom- Registering the Screen Capture Codec- Remember last position- PlayReady DRM (Pro only)- Project Based User Experience- Aligned the Smooth Streaming Media Element with IIS (SSME) in our templates- Added rich DXFP Closed Caption supportMore Information / Links
Expression Encoder announcements
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
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Expression Encoder 4 SP2 is out! [11/2011]
A new service pack is now available for Expression Encoder 4, which includes over 300 bug fixes as well as these new features:- Intel QSV GPU encoding and improved Cuda GPU encoding (Pro only) - More information available here, (QSV and Cuda performance reports are also available).
- 1 and 2-pass VBR for offline H.264 encodes (Pro only)
- More AAC audio options (Pro only)
- SRS audio encoding
- Manage publishing points from within Expression Encoder (Pro only)
- Live crop
- Windows Media Streaming MBR
- Live H.264 VBR 1-pass (Pro only)
- No Screen Capture limit
- Follow mouse cursor
- Template improvements
- New SDK samples
More information about the new features is available here.Expression Encoder 4 SP1 is out! [1/2011]
The English version of Expression Encoder 4 SP1 has been released and is available here. Other languages will be released shortly.To install, simply run setup on top of a pre-existing Expression Encoder 4 installation or install it from scratch. If already installed, your license will not be affected.Besides multiple bug fixes, here are the new features for this release:- GPU Encoding (Pro only)- Live Template Support (Pro only)- Live Screen Capture- Caption Updates (Pro only)- Improved De-interlacing Options- DRM Content Key (Pro only)- HE-AAC encoding (Pro only)- Live Push/Pull- Windows Phone 7 PresetsMore information about the new features is available here.Expression Encoder Blog entry on SP1 release can be found here.A couple of white papers about GPU Encoding are available here (general) and there (performance report).Performance Assessment Tool for Live Smooth Streaming Available [9/2010]
We have created a free tool that enables Encoder 4 Pro users to roughly assess what kind of load their encoding workstation can withstand with the supplied specific sources. The tool also enables saving the files that succeeded the encode. It's available here to download.On a separate note, Jamie Lang posted a white paper on Live Smooth Streaming here.Screen Capture Codec Available [5/2010]Also available is the standalone Screen Capture codec installer, available here, which can be freely redistributed. This will enable any DShow-based application, including Movie Maker, DVD Maker and Windows Media Player, to consume the XESC files that the Expression Encoder Screen Capture application outputs.Encoder SKUs [4/2010]
There are three SKU tiers for Expression Encoder 4:- Expression Encoder 4: the base SKU (free). This can be downloaded here.- Expression Encoder 4 Pro without Codecs: includes all features from the base SKU, plus DRM, Live Smooth Streaming and unlimited screen capture (the free version is limited to 10 minutes). This is typically available via some Spark SKUs and MSDN.- Expression Encoder 4 Pro: includes all features from above, plus all licensed decoders and H.264/AAC encoding. This SKU is available for purchase here. It's also available as a free upgrade from Encoder v3 with IIS Smooth Streaming (see below).Unfortunately, the premium codecs that we shipped in the full Pro version cannot be distributed via MSDN due to codec licensing agreements.Here is a list of the codecs in question:- Decoders: MPEG2, MPEG/TS Splitter, Dolby Digital (AC3), MP4, H.264 and AAC- Encoders: MP4 and H.264-based Smooth StreamingNote: While the full-featured Pro SKU is required to get H.264 encoding functionality, 3rd party DShow decoders can be used to import the file formats above. It is also worth noting that some of those decoders may already be available on some operating systems.More information about the SKU differences can be found here.Upgrading [4/2010]
Whether you installed the free base SKU or got the Expression Encoder 4 without Codecs SKU and are interested in upgrading to Encoder 4 Pro, simply purchase Expression Encoder 4 Pro here and enter the new key in the application to enabled the codecs and the Pro-only feature.If you owned either the full retail version of Encoder 3 with IIS Smooth Streaming or the retail full-featured Expression Studio SKU, you can upgrade to Encoder 4 Pro for free. Simply install the base Expression Encoder 4 from here on your PC that has the full retail version of Encoder 3 with IIS Smooth Streaming and your license will automatically be upgraded to the full-featured 4 Pro version. Please also note that both versions of Encoder 3 and 4 can coexist on the same PC, so there is no need to uninstall v3.Unfortunately, this free upgrade is not available for Web Studio 3 users or MSDN subscriptions.More information about the free upgrade is available here.New Features in Expression Encoder 4 [4/2010]
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the new features available in this new version:- New H.264 Encoder (Pro only)- High Profile Support- Advanced Settings- Increased Performance dramatically- Live- Better device support- Live Smooth Streaming Support (Pro only)- Redesigned UI- Statistics & Connections Panel- Multi-cast support- Screen Capture (Unlimited in Pro only)- New SDK- Better workflow/Capture Management- Zoom- Registering the Screen Capture Codec- Remember last position- PlayReady DRM (Pro only)- Project Based User Experience- Aligned the Smooth Streaming Media Element with IIS (SSME) in our templates- Added rich DXFP Closed Caption supportMore Information / Links
SQL Server Analysis Services announcements
Visual Studio Code Visualization & Modeling Tools announcements
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- This Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling SDK Forum - for domain-specific languages and extending the modeling tools
- Visual Studio Extensibility Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, and other non-modeling extensions
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content.
Thanks for posting your questions and feedback! We use them to help us improve the product and improve the help pages.
Outlook for Developers announcements
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
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The Office/Outlook 2010 Redistributable PIA's have finally been released, the download location is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=938fe8ad-583b-4bd7-a345-23250dc15855.
Thanks to Patrick Creehan for the announcement in his blog.
Microsoft Robotics - Visual Programming Language announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Microsoft Robotics - Visual Programming Language announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Parallel Computing in C++ and Native Code announcements
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If you are a newbie to C++ AMP please start here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2012/08/30/learn-c-amp.aspx
Windows Phone push notifications announcements
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Hello all,
The June Financial summary data has been loaded, so please visit your Dev Center Dashboard to review your June payout details.
Thanks!
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Standard 2009: Misc announcements
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I am very pleased to announce that Richard John Eaton, one of the most active contributors in this forum, to be our first Answerer!
With this role, Richard will help us manage the forum and other creative community activities.
I know it's a not fancy title, but it's a recognition from us for his great support in the community. We hope Richard can help us move this forum to the next level. And then he'll be moved to the next level too, to be a "Moderator". (Come on, that one is fancier :P)
Here is Richard in his own word:
40 something geek, with a severe interest in computers, Gadgets, off roading and gardening.
Lead developer at Steatite for Embedded Solutions. Having been employed there since his return from Russia in 2005.
Go Richard!
Weijuan
LINQ to SQL announcements
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Welcome to the forum for discussing LINQ to SQL. A few suggestions:
- Make the subject line specific - "I'm stuck", "HELP" or "This query doesn't work" could easily mean somebody with the answer skipped it.
- Be polite when asking and responding to questions - we're all here to try and help each other
- When you have an answer please remember to mark it as such so people can filter down on who's still stuck and find answers to their problems
There are a few useful resources you also might want to check out:
- MSDN Getting Started & Programming Guide
- Cheat sheet for C# and VB.NET (PDF)
- Customized code-generation templates
- List of additional LINQ to SQL resources
Some other forums that might be of help:
LINQ to SQL announcements
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Welcome to the forum for discussing LINQ to SQL. A few suggestions:
- Make the subject line specific - "I'm stuck", "HELP" or "This query doesn't work" could easily mean somebody with the answer skipped it.
- Be polite when asking and responding to questions - we're all here to try and help each other
- When you have an answer please remember to mark it as such so people can filter down on who's still stuck and find answers to their problems
There are a few useful resources you also might want to check out:
- MSDN Getting Started & Programming Guide
- Cheat sheet for C# and VB.NET (PDF)
- Customized code-generation templates
- List of additional LINQ to SQL resources
Some other forums that might be of help:
Team Foundation Server - Process Templates announcements
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You can now see at a glance all the work item fields that ship with default process templates TFS 2012 provides. Go here to read the blog post and access the latest content:
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS.
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The schemas (xsd) for process template and work item types are available on Code Gallery.
Team Foundation Server - Process Templates announcements
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You can now see at a glance all the work item fields that ship with default process templates TFS 2012 provides. Go here to read the blog post and access the latest content:
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS.
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The schemas (xsd) for process template and work item types are available on Code Gallery.
Microsoft Unified Communications Web API announcements
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Documentation for the Unified Communications Web API (UCWA), a web API that is part of the new Lync 2013 release, is available at http://ucwa.lync.com/documentation/what-is-lync-ucwa-api.
You can go through the fully interactive demo and sandbox by just visiting http://ucwa.lync.com
Windows Protocols announcements
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This release contains new and updated documents for Windows Technical Preview. These documents are available in PDF format on the Preview Specifications page on MSDN.
The following Windows protocol documents are new in this release:
- [MS-NCP-Preview]: Network Controller Protocol
- [MS-RNAS-Preview]: Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes for Network Policy and Access Server (NPAS) Data Structure
- [MS-SQOS-Preview]: Storage Quality of Service Protocol
- [MS-WDHCE-Preview]: Wi-Fi Display Protocol: Hardware Cursor Extension
The following Windows protocol documents were previously released and have been updated. They contain revision marks that show changes due to the Windows Technical Preview, as well as document updates made since those documents were last published on 5/15/2014. Additions are shown in red text; deletions are shown as strikethrough text.
- [MS-ADA2-Diff]: Active Directory Schema Attributes M
- [MS-ADFSPIP-Diff]: Active Directory Federation Services and Proxy Integration Protocol
- [MS-ADSC-Diff]: Active Directory Schema Classes
- [MS-ADTS-Diff]: Active Directory Technical Specification
- [MS-CMRP-Diff]: Failover Cluster: Management API (ClusAPI) Protocol
- [MS-DHCPM-Diff]: Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server Management Protocol
- [MS-DNSP-Diff]: Domain Name Service (DNS) Server Management Protocol
- [MS-DSCPM-Diff]: Desired State Configuration Pull Model Protocol
- [MS-ECS-Diff]: Enterprise Client Synchronization Protocol
- [MS-FASP-Diff]: Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol
- [MS-FSA-Diff]: File System Algorithms
- [MS-FSCC-Diff]: File System Control Codes
- [MS-GPFAS-Diff]: Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure
- [MS-LCID-Diff]: Windows Language Code Identifier (LCID) Reference
- [MS-LWSSP-Diff]: Lightweight Web Services Security Profile
- [MS-NRPC-Diff]: Netlogon Remote Protocol
- [MS-PSRDP-Diff]: PowerShell Remote Debugging Protocol
- [MS-RDPEGFX-Diff]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Graphics Pipeline Extension
- [MS-RPRN-Diff]: Print System Remote Protocol
- [MS-RSVD-Diff]: Remote Shared Virtual Disk Protocol
- [MS-SMB2-Diff]: Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3
- [MS-SSTP-Diff]: Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
- [MS-TPMVSC-Diff]: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Virtual Smart Card Management Protocol
- [MS-TSGU-Diff]: Terminal Services Gateway Server Protocol
- [MS-WCFESAN-Diff]: WCF-Based Encrypted Server Administration and Notification Protocol
The following Office protocol document was previously released and has been updated for Windows Technical Preview:
- [MS-WSSHP]: HTTP Windows SharePoint Services Headers Protocol
Forums Redesign - Q&A / Discussions announcements
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Thank you everyone who has provided feedback into this forum so far. We appreciate the feedback and are actively prioritizing it accordingly. We are monitoring the suggestions and bugs and are currently working to make improvements based on feedback that has already been provided.
In order to help us make further improvements to this new design, please take the following action:
- If you have a suggestion for the redesigned Forums please post these to Suggestions and Feedback for the Forums. Please limit one suggestion per post and we encourage users to vote up suggestions to bring attention to the Forums team.
- If you encounter bugs please continue to post bugs in the Forums Issues forum.
- If you have additional questions or comments about the redesign, this forum is the place to post.
Again, thank you for your feedback and know that your voice is being heard.
Standard 7: Embedded Enabling Features (EEFs) announcements
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Many of you have asked about contacting product support for questions that remain unanswered in the forums. The link below should help contact product support for Windows Embedded.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/about/support.mspx
The Forum of Sho announcements
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Hello and welcome to the Forum of Sho!
This forum is meant to be a community for Sho users where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others using Sho. Feel free to post questions about any and all aspects of Sho, and we (as well as other community members) will do our best to get you some answers. We hope that as your expertise in Sho grows, you'll also take the time to answer questions from folks who could benefit from your knowledge and experience.
For more information about Sho, including the latest installer and documentation, check out http://research.microsoft.com/sho
Microsoft Robotics - Hardware Configuration and Troubleshooting announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Microsoft Robotics - Hardware Configuration and Troubleshooting announcements
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Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.
Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.
Windows Desktop Development for Ink, Touch, and Tablet PC announcements
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The following link points to the code gallery sample for the Windows Touch Photostrip sample:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wintouchphotostrip
This sample demonstrates how to get past the limitation of only one window receiving WM_TOUCH messages.
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Hello and welcome to the "Ink, Multi-Touch, and Other Tablet PC Development" forum.
This is the place where you can post questions, tricks, tips, and other observations about creating applications that specifically take advantage of natural input methods of ink and touch. Whether you are setting up a development environment, integrating handwriting into an existing application, or creating a state-of-the-art multi-touch client application from the ground up, we will strive to ensure that both other members of the developer community as well as product team members from Microsoft are pointing you to the correct resources and helping out where applicable.
Some resources that you should know about immediately:
- The Windows Developer Center on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/windows) contains pages dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. From the home page, click Technologies, and then click Mobile PC.
- In addition, the Windows Developer Center contains resources specific to Tablet and Touch Technology in the Learn page, including How-Do-I videos and MS Learning webcasts.
- The developer center contains a number of hands-on labs dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. The labs--written in C++, C#, and Visual Basic .NET--range from getting started to advanced pen data manipulation.
You can find the Tablet and Touch SDK documentation in the MSDN Library:
- All conceptual topics are grouped together under the Tablet PC Development Guide. This includes native and managed conceptual information.
- All of the native reference documentation is located under the Tablet PC COM Library Reference node.
- The reference documentation for managed APIs is located in the following .NET Framework namespaces:
- Microsoft.Ink (general ink functionality)
- Microsoft.Ink.TextInput (Tablet PC Input Panel)
- Microsoft.StylusInput (RealTimeStylus implementation)
- Microsoft.StylusInput.PluginData (Plugin data for RealTimeStylus)
- System.Windows.Ink (WPF implementation)
- System.Windows.Ink.AnalysisCore (base classes for ink analysis in WPF)
- In addition, the System.Windows.Controls namespace contains the InkCanvas and the InkPresenter classes.
This forum is NOT for end-user questions or hardware reviews. It is for questions about developing applications using Tablet and Touch technologies. Questions that are out of scope will be redirected to appropriate forums or newsgroups.
This forum is based on a new Forum 3.0 platform which provides many robust features. To know more about Forum 3.0 new features, view the following video:
http://xpstream.winisp.net/samjarawan/msdn%20forums%20overview.wmv
Outlook for Developers announcements
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
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The Office/Outlook 2010 Redistributable PIA's have finally been released, the download location is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=938fe8ad-583b-4bd7-a345-23250dc15855.
Thanks to Patrick Creehan for the announcement in his blog.
Expression Studio announcements
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In conjunction with our announcement that we have discontinued development of several Expression products and are no longer selling Expression Studio, we have locked this forum to further posting.
You can read the details of our product announcement on the Expression home page, http://msdn.microsoft.com/expression.
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Expression Studio announcements
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In conjunction with our announcement that we have discontinued development of several Expression products and are no longer selling Expression Studio, we have locked this forum to further posting.
You can read the details of our product announcement on the Expression home page, http://msdn.microsoft.com/expression.
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We released important news today about the Expression family of products. Please visit the Expression Community home page for details.
Windows Live Spaces: Development announcements
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For API and Live developer app issues , please direct your questions and feedback to the Developers Lounge area in the Bing Community forums
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Please click on the link for more information and removal tools
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Hi,
If you want to make a suggestion for a new space feature in the future, please click on the feedback button at the bottom of your space. Or you can offer feedback, stay up-to-date with spaces plans, or make suggestions for new features at the live space team blog at the link below
http://robdolin.spaces.live.com/?lc=1033
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For hotmail tech support, please click on the link below
http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
Open XML Format SDK announcements
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The ECMA-376 4th Edition of the OOXML standard has been released (December 2012) and is available for download:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htmStill not available are the Microsoft Office Implementations for the "Ribbon" and other special parts not part of the Office Open XML specification.
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The download page for the Open XML SDK 2.5 for Microsoft Office is now providing the RTW version of Open XML SDK 2.5. You can use this version for production. We are now updating the documentation in MSDN. Until the publication of the updated documentation, please refer to the SDK document in Productivity Tool.
The differences between the CTP and the RTW versions exist in the classes of "Office15", and those are renamed to "Office2013". Also we are preparing a set of sample code demonstrating how the classes can be used.
Regards,
Kazunori Matsuura
Open XML SDK 2.5
Visual Studio Editor announcements
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To increase the chances of the right team seeing your topic, it's very helpful if you post in the forum that corresponds to your issue or discussion. This forum (Visual Studio Editor) covers questions related to the core text/code editor *only*. This includes issues related to typing, scrolling, IntelliSense, tooltips, syntax coloring, outlining, etc., as well as editor extensibility. It does NOT include questions of the form, "How do I write code to accomplish XYZ task in language Foo?".
For topics that are language-specific, database-related, or involve any type of designer surface, debugger, compiler, etc., please start with the forums listed below:
- Web Development: http://forums.asp.net
- SQL/Database Development: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstsdb/threads
- WinForms: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winforms/threads (general issues) or http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winformsdesigner/threads (WinForms designer)
- WPF Designer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/threads
- Debugger: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/threads
- Test Tools: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/threadsThanks for your help in posting questions where they are most likely to be answered!
Windows File Sharing Protocols announcements
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This release contains new and updated documents for Windows Technical Preview. These documents are available in PDF format on the Preview Specifications page on MSDN.
The following Windows protocol documents are new in this release:
- [MS-NCP-Preview]: Network Controller Protocol
- [MS-RNAS-Preview]: Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes for Network Policy and Access Server (NPAS) Data Structure
- [MS-SQOS-Preview]: Storage Quality of Service Protocol
- [MS-WDHCE-Preview]: Wi-Fi Display Protocol: Hardware Cursor Extension
The following Windows protocol documents were previously released and have been updated. They contain revision marks that show changes due to the Windows Technical Preview, as well as document updates made since those documents were last published on 5/15/2014. Additions are shown in red text; deletions are shown as strikethrough text.
- [MS-ADA2-Diff]: Active Directory Schema Attributes M
- [MS-ADFSPIP-Diff]: Active Directory Federation Services and Proxy Integration Protocol
- [MS-ADSC-Diff]: Active Directory Schema Classes
- [MS-ADTS-Diff]: Active Directory Technical Specification
- [MS-CMRP-Diff]: Failover Cluster: Management API (ClusAPI) Protocol
- [MS-DHCPM-Diff]: Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server Management Protocol
- [MS-DNSP-Diff]: Domain Name Service (DNS) Server Management Protocol
- [MS-DSCPM-Diff]: Desired State Configuration Pull Model Protocol
- [MS-ECS-Diff]: Enterprise Client Synchronization Protocol
- [MS-FASP-Diff]: Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol
- [MS-FSA-Diff]: File System Algorithms
- [MS-FSCC-Diff]: File System Control Codes
- [MS-GPFAS-Diff]: Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure
- [MS-LCID-Diff]: Windows Language Code Identifier (LCID) Reference
- [MS-LWSSP-Diff]: Lightweight Web Services Security Profile
- [MS-NRPC-Diff]: Netlogon Remote Protocol
- [MS-PSRDP-Diff]: PowerShell Remote Debugging Protocol
- [MS-RDPEGFX-Diff]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Graphics Pipeline Extension
- [MS-RPRN-Diff]: Print System Remote Protocol
- [MS-RSVD-Diff]: Remote Shared Virtual Disk Protocol
- [MS-SMB2-Diff]: Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3
- [MS-SSTP-Diff]: Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
- [MS-TPMVSC-Diff]: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Virtual Smart Card Management Protocol
- [MS-TSGU-Diff]: Terminal Services Gateway Server Protocol
- [MS-WCFESAN-Diff]: WCF-Based Encrypted Server Administration and Notification Protocol
The following Office protocol document was previously released and has been updated for Windows Technical Preview:
- [MS-WSSHP]: HTTP Windows SharePoint Services Headers Protocol
MSBuild announcements
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Take a look at the Blog post below by Dan Moseley.
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) announcements
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For details, see the blog article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/archive/2014/04/10/vsto-runtime-update-to-address-slow-shutdown-and-unknown-publisher-for-sha256-certificates.aspx
This release fixes:
1. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using touch-enabled
devices experienced a 15-20 second lag when closing Office applications2. for developers using SHA256 code-signing certificates, the installation
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VSTO. Rest assured that VSTO continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for additional programming languages and platforms, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution, lifecycle management, and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
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The newest version of Visual Studio - 2013 - is now available.
For VSTO developers in particular, new in this release is the ability to code-sign VSTO solutions with SHA-256 certificates. The latest release also supports Office 2013 right-out-of-the-box without requiring a separate download, and the Office 2013 templates can now target the latest .NET Framework 4.5.1.
Visual Studio 2013 also delivers a broad set of tooling for the new apps for Office and apps for SharePoint. Some highlights include the ability to create MVC SharePoint apps, enhancements around app-publishing, and a new set of tooling around Cloud Business Apps that integrate seamlessly with Office 365 services. Learn more on the apps for Office and SharePoint blog.
Tip:
Just like Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 continues to support the Office 2010 templates. However, to reduce clutter, we have re-categorized the project templates according to the .NET Framework version that they support. So, if you're looking for the Office 2010 templates, be sure to adjust the ".NET Framework" dropdown to ".NET Framework 4.0".We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2013 and the many great features that this IDE has to offer!
~ Michael Zlatkovsky | Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office & Apps for Office
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
Visual Studio Diagnostics (Debugger, Profiler, IntelliTrace) announcements
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To learn what is new in Diagnostics for Visual Studio 2013, see this collection of links:
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A Channel 9 video showing the new 2010 debugger features is available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-34-Debugger-Enhancements-and-Improvements/
Word for Developers announcements
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Many folks have been asking about the emerging "apps for Office" model, and what it means for the future of VBA. Rest assured that VBA continues to be alive and well. In fact, many existing automation scenarios continue to be best served by VSTO & VBA for now. At the same time, there are many exciting opportunities to look forward in apps for Office: for example, the ability to better integrate with web content and JavaScript/CSS libraries, support for host applications beyond the desktop versions of Office, and new distribution and monetization opportunities through the Office Store.
To learn more, please see the blog post: "Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA".
-- Michael Zlatkovsky (MSFT)
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I know the documentation for Office 2013 is still somewhat limited, but hopefully the following link will help.
Microsoft Office Document: [MS-CustomUI2] Supporting Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=727
From here, you should be able to download the *.txt files for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus the imageMso information. Once a file is downloaded, it can be opened in Excel to make it easier to look through all the controls.
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
SyncFx – Microsoft Sync Framework Toolkit announcements
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The Sync Framework Toolkit extends the Sync Framework capabilities for building offline applications, making it easier to expose data for synchronization to applications running on any client platform. Sync Framework 2.1 required clients to be based on Windows. This toolkit allows other Microsoft platforms to be used for offline clients such as Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Mobile; in addition non-Microsoft platforms such as iPhone, Android, and Blackberry can be utilized as well as HTML.
The Sync Framework Toolkit provides all the features enabled by the Sync Framework 4.0 October 2010 CTP. We are releasing the toolkit as source code samples on MSDN with the source code utilizing Sync Framework 2.1. Source code provides the flexibility to customize or extend the capabilities we have provided to suit your specific requirements. The client-side source code in the package is released under the Apache 2.0 license and the server-side source code under the MS-LPL license.
The toolkit is available for download on MSDN at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Sync-Framework-Toolkit-4dc10f0e.
We will keep the forum used for Sync Framework V4 CTP available for community discussion and community support.
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At PDC 2010 we announced and released Sync Framework V4 CTP. The main capability available in the CTP was greatly enhanced support for offline clients. In particular, we added the ability to easily create web services to synchronize data from SQL Server or SQL Azure databases with offline clients built on any platform - Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, iPhone or any client platform with any local client store. The final release of V4 was planned for 2011 and we were targeting the first half of this year for general availability.
This post is to inform you that we have updated our plans and postponed the V4 release for the time being. We do expect to release Sync Framework V4 in the future and will let you know the new release date when available, but it is unlikely the release will be available in 2011.
There has been a great deal of interest in our V4 release, with lots of participation in the CTP. In lieu of a formal release, we are planning to make the V4 CTP functionality available as source code samples on MSDN Code Gallery in the next few months – server code, client code and client samples. The source code samples will utilize and depend on Sync Framework V2.1 (on the server), as was the case for the CTP. UPDATE: We will make the code available by end August 2011.
This was a difficult decision for the team. We are currently focusing on the delivery of SQL Azure Data Sync which is a service providing data synchronization capabilities for SQL Azure that will be released later this year. SQL Azure Data Sync heavily utilizes Sync Framework internally.
Here are a few common questions we’ve received:
· Q: Will you stop supporting Sync Framework V2.1?
· A: No. Sync Framework V2.1 is a released product and will continue to be supported, both formally and via the MSDN forums.
· Q: Does this mean that the Sync Framework is being phased out?
· A: No. We expect to provide future versions of the synchronization developer platform. SQL Azure Data Sync is built on top of Sync Framework and we continue to invest in data synchronization capabilities. We believe that both end-user services and development platform are important to provide a complete stack for customers. With Sync Framework V2.1 being available we are currently focusing on the delivery of the end-user service.
· Q: When do you expect Sync Framework V4 will be released?
· A: A potential release date has not been set.
· Q: How do the offline capabilities of Sync Framework V4 relate to the recently announced “reference data caching” capabilities for OData?
· A: “Reference data caching” is being proposed as a future additional capability of the OData protocol. It specifically targets the one-way download scenario for reference data. We believe this is a common scenario and is sufficiently straightforward to integrate directly into the OData protocol. We are exploring how far to integrate sync capabilities into the OData protocol vs. potentially layering more sync capabilities on top of OData, which is the approach we took with the Sync Framework V4 CTP. We look forward to your feedback in this area as we explore together with the OData community.
Regards,
Sync Framework team
MSDN and TechNet Search Feedback announcements
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Hi,
In the latest release for MSDN Search, we have retired the Search Code funtionality. We currently have a number of solutions including Library Code Examples and Samples, Galleries and Codeplex which allows our users to search and discover code. We are continuing to invest on a richer search experience as proven by the enhancements we have made to search results with added metadata such as ratings, downloads, clicks. Here are some examples:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=openfile&refinement=117
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=xaml&refinement=456http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/?Refinement=203&Query=xaml
Stay tuned for further improvements in MSDN Search in the coming year.
Thank you.
Regards,Faisal Jamil
MSDN/TechNet Search PM
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Hello,
Some of you have been experiencing issues when searching some of our forums. This is a known issue and we are working to fix it. Read more about it here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/threads/
under the Announcement "CURRENT FORUM KNOWN ISSUES: Points and My Threads may not be correct after Migration, Search not working"
We will update this announcement once the issues are resolved.
Thanks,
George.
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Hi - Welcome to our new Search Feedback forum for search on the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression websites, which are web front-ends built on top of the Live Search API to search the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression websites-- and associated technical content like the Support Knowledge Base (KB) as well as community content like Forums.
Our UI is optimized for the specific needs of technical professionals looking for technical info. Feel free to send us your suggestions, bug reports, gripes, thoughts, etc.
If you are filing a bug report with our site search, please include the following:
1. URL where the problem is happening
2. Specific search query you are using
3. Browser type and version you are using
4. If another search engine returns better results than ours, please include the URL for *that* search engine so we can compare.
This info will help us track down problems quicker.
NOTE: This forum is only for feedback about our site's search feature. If you have feedback about specfic Microsoft products or other parts of MSDN or TechNet besides search, please visit the MSDN Forums, TechNet Forums, or Expression Forums home pages to find the out the best place to send your feedback.
Thanks again for using our search and caring enough to send your feedback-- your suggestions and bug reports help us get better!
Also check out the MSDN & TechNet Search Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsearchblog/ for the latest news and updates about our site search.
Thanks,
Justin Grant
MSDN and TechNet Search Feedback announcements
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Hi,
In the latest release for MSDN Search, we have retired the Search Code funtionality. We currently have a number of solutions including Library Code Examples and Samples, Galleries and Codeplex which allows our users to search and discover code. We are continuing to invest on a richer search experience as proven by the enhancements we have made to search results with added metadata such as ratings, downloads, clicks. Here are some examples:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=openfile&refinement=117
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=xaml&refinement=456http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/?Refinement=203&Query=xaml
Stay tuned for further improvements in MSDN Search in the coming year.
Thank you.
Regards,Faisal Jamil
MSDN/TechNet Search PM
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Hello,
Some of you have been experiencing issues when searching some of our forums. This is a known issue and we are working to fix it. Read more about it here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/threads/
under the Announcement "CURRENT FORUM KNOWN ISSUES: Points and My Threads may not be correct after Migration, Search not working"
We will update this announcement once the issues are resolved.
Thanks,
George.
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Hi - Welcome to our new Search Feedback forum for search on the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression websites, which are web front-ends built on top of the Live Search API to search the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression websites-- and associated technical content like the Support Knowledge Base (KB) as well as community content like Forums.
Our UI is optimized for the specific needs of technical professionals looking for technical info. Feel free to send us your suggestions, bug reports, gripes, thoughts, etc.
If you are filing a bug report with our site search, please include the following:
1. URL where the problem is happening
2. Specific search query you are using
3. Browser type and version you are using
4. If another search engine returns better results than ours, please include the URL for *that* search engine so we can compare.
This info will help us track down problems quicker.
NOTE: This forum is only for feedback about our site's search feature. If you have feedback about specfic Microsoft products or other parts of MSDN or TechNet besides search, please visit the MSDN Forums, TechNet Forums, or Expression Forums home pages to find the out the best place to send your feedback.
Thanks again for using our search and caring enough to send your feedback-- your suggestions and bug reports help us get better!
Also check out the MSDN & TechNet Search Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsearchblog/ for the latest news and updates about our site search.
Thanks,
Justin Grant
Windows Desktop Development for Ink, Touch, and Tablet PC announcements
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The following link points to the code gallery sample for the Windows Touch Photostrip sample:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wintouchphotostrip
This sample demonstrates how to get past the limitation of only one window receiving WM_TOUCH messages.
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Hello and welcome to the "Ink, Multi-Touch, and Other Tablet PC Development" forum.
This is the place where you can post questions, tricks, tips, and other observations about creating applications that specifically take advantage of natural input methods of ink and touch. Whether you are setting up a development environment, integrating handwriting into an existing application, or creating a state-of-the-art multi-touch client application from the ground up, we will strive to ensure that both other members of the developer community as well as product team members from Microsoft are pointing you to the correct resources and helping out where applicable.
Some resources that you should know about immediately:
- The Windows Developer Center on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/windows) contains pages dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. From the home page, click Technologies, and then click Mobile PC.
- In addition, the Windows Developer Center contains resources specific to Tablet and Touch Technology in the Learn page, including How-Do-I videos and MS Learning webcasts.
- The developer center contains a number of hands-on labs dedicated to Tablet and Touch Technology. The labs--written in C++, C#, and Visual Basic .NET--range from getting started to advanced pen data manipulation.
You can find the Tablet and Touch SDK documentation in the MSDN Library:
- All conceptual topics are grouped together under the Tablet PC Development Guide. This includes native and managed conceptual information.
- All of the native reference documentation is located under the Tablet PC COM Library Reference node.
- The reference documentation for managed APIs is located in the following .NET Framework namespaces:
- Microsoft.Ink (general ink functionality)
- Microsoft.Ink.TextInput (Tablet PC Input Panel)
- Microsoft.StylusInput (RealTimeStylus implementation)
- Microsoft.StylusInput.PluginData (Plugin data for RealTimeStylus)
- System.Windows.Ink (WPF implementation)
- System.Windows.Ink.AnalysisCore (base classes for ink analysis in WPF)
- In addition, the System.Windows.Controls namespace contains the InkCanvas and the InkPresenter classes.
This forum is NOT for end-user questions or hardware reviews. It is for questions about developing applications using Tablet and Touch technologies. Questions that are out of scope will be redirected to appropriate forums or newsgroups.
This forum is based on a new Forum 3.0 platform which provides many robust features. To know more about Forum 3.0 new features, view the following video:
http://xpstream.winisp.net/samjarawan/msdn%20forums%20overview.wmv
TPL Dataflow announcements
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In .NET 4.5 RC, TPL Dataflow is delivered via NuGet at https://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Tpl.Dataflow and is supported everywhere that .NET 4.5 runs, including desktop, server, and .NET for Metro style apps. The simplest way to install the package in Visual Studio is to highlight the target project, select Tools > Library Package Manager > Package Manager Console, and at the prompt enter:
Install-Package Microsoft.Tpl.Dataflow -Pre
The -Pre flag is needed because these are marked as prerelease versions. You can use the GUI Manage NuGet Packages dialog for this task as well, but when searching make sure to select Include Prerelease from the appropriate drop-down list. For details about this release, please refer to the blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2012/05/30/mef-and-tpl-dataflow-nuget-packages-for-net-framework-4-5-rc.aspx. -
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