Managed Extensibility Framework announcements

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  This Forum Has Been Retired
  John Boylan Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:19 AM

  This forum has been retired. It is locked; it is still 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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  Managed Extensibility Framework Blogs and Resources
  David M. Kean Thursday, June 5, 2008 1:15 AM

  Downloads
  
  Managed Extensibility Framework CTP
  
  Team Member Blogs
  
  Krzysztof Cwalina (rss)
  Mircea Trofin (rss)
  Wes Haggard (rss)
  David Kean (rss)
  Glenn Block (rss)
  Nicholas Blumhardt (rss)
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  Welcome
  David M. Kean Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:35 PM

  Welcome to the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) forum. This forum is the new home for all discussions related to MEF and the System.ComponentModel.Composition namespace, a set of building blocks that includes dependency injection (DI), structural matching (duck typing) and a naming and activation service for developing extensible and dynamic applications.
  
  You can get started by downloading the CTP from CodePlex.
  
  Regards
  
  Managed Extensibility Framework Team

Microsoft adCenter: Development announcements

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  New adCenter Forum Location
  Shrikant Maske Tuesday, March 1, 2011 8:06 PM

  This forum has moved and is included as part of the adCenter Community website located at http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/Default.aspx. The community website includes advertiser, publisher, and developer focused blog posts from adCenter experts.

  In addition, the community website includes forums that you can use to get answers to your questions and to share your experiences. The developer forum is adCenter API Development and is located at http://community.microsoftadvertising.com/forums/27.aspx.

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  New Migration Guide for Yahoo Search Marketing Developers Posted
  Chris Norred MSFT Friday, April 9, 2010 11:46 PM

  Migrating from Yahoo! Search Marketing API to adCenter API

  Scott White has posted this migration guide for those developers moving from the Yahoo API to adCenter API.

   

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  New Video Training: Capturing SOAP messages in various languages when making calls to the adCenter API
  Chris Norred MSFT Monday, January 12, 2009 6:47 PM

  Jeff Dillon has prepared this excellent online video that walks you through the steps for captuing SOAP messages when using the adCenter API.  This is especially useful when troubleshooting or reporting issues during development.
  
  As you'll see, Jeff is an accomplished videographer and trainer in addition to being an adCenter API expert. Let us know what you think.
  
  http://adcentercommunity.com/blogs/api/archive/2009/01/08/soap-capture-training-video.aspx
  
  
  
  

Microsoft ESP Platform Development (Archived) announcements

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  Microsoft ESP Forum to be retired June 30th, 2010
  Todd Landstad Friday, June 25, 2010 10:04 PM

  This forum and the content associated with it is being retired effective June 30^th.  You can find all existing content listed in the MSDN Library for ESP.

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Threat Modeling announcements

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  SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3.1.6 beta now available for download
  Dana Epp [Security MVP] Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:35 PM

  Hey guys,

  The latest beta of the Threat Modeling tool is now available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a48cccb1-814b-47b6-9d17-1e273f65ae19&displaylang=en

  Many bugs previously reported have been fixed, along with support for Visio 2010.

  Please give the beta a download and check it out if you have open bugs. Let me know if you have any problems and I'll send it back up the chain within Microsoft!

  Happy threat modeling!

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  Announcing Elevation of Privilege: The Threat Modeling Game
  Dana Epp [Security MVP] Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:51 AM

  I have had the pleasure over the past few months to spend some time playing with an early rendition of " Elevation of Privilege: The Threat Modeling Game". According to Adam, "Elevation of Privilege is the easiest way to get started threat modeling".  I couldn't agree more. If you have a team that is new to the whole process of threat modeling, you will want to check it out. If you are at RSA this week, drop by the Microsoft booth and pick the game up for free. If you aren't, you can download it here.
  
  EoP is a card game for 3-6 players. The deck contains 74 playing cards in 6 suits: one suit for each of the STRIDE threats (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information disclosure, Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege). Each card has a more specific threat on it.  You can see a short video on how to play and some more information about the game by checking our Adam's post here. In the end, it is a game that makes it possible to have more fun when thinking about threats. And that's a good thing.
  
  Even more impressive is that they have released the game under Creative Commons Attribution license which gives you freedom to share, adapt and remix the game. So you if you feel you can improve up this, step up and let everyone know!!   
  
  Congratulations to the SDL team for creating an innovative way to approach the concept of threat modeling.

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Tools announcements

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  Attend the upcoming MSDN Webcast "Using the Attack Surface Analyzer" on April 7, 2011
  SDL Team Thursday, March 3, 2011 6:17 PM

  The recently released Attack Surface Analyzer tool helps developers review attack surface during the verification phase of the SDL. Additionally, Attack Surface Analyzer allows IT professionals to identify security changes as the result of installing applications on the Windows platform. By taking snapshots before and after an application is installed, Attack Surface Analyzer highlights weaknesses and security misconfigurations as issues and generates an Attack Surface report listing changes to securable objects and the computers attack surface.

   

  This webcast will walk you through how to run Attack Surface Analyzer and how to do basic analysis of the generated report.
  
  

  To register for the webcast, click here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032480502&Culture=en-US

   

  To download Attack Surface Analyzer, click here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9758398

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  Workaround for MSF-Agile+SDL v5.0 install error
  SDL Team Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:59 PM

  Hi everyone,

  We've talked with some people experiencing problems when trying to install the MSF-Agile+SDL v5.0 process template. We believe these problems are a result of an incompatibility with certain configurations of Sharepoint, and we are working to correct the issue for the next release of the MSF-Agile+SDL template. In the meantime, you should be able to work around the problem by following these instructions to disable the Sharepoint features of the template:

  1. Uninstall the template if you've already installed it.
  2. Reinstall the template files, and uncheck the Additional Sharepoint Components feature during the installation process.
  3. Using your XML editor of choice, open the file <template install dir>\Process Template\Windows SharePoint Services\wsstasks.xml.
  4. Near the bottom of the file, you will see the lines:

  <!--TfsDashboardSDLAgile -->

  <feature featureId="3F6F501A-5DFF-4359-8ED8-232784DFF47E" />

  5. Comment out the second line, ie:

  <!--TfsDashboardSDLAgile -->

  <!-- <feature featureId="3F6F501A-5DFF-4359-8ED8-232784DFF47E" /> -->

  6. Save the file and close

  7. Open the Process Template Manager in Visual Studio

  8. Delete the existing "MSF for Agile Software Development plus Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) v5.0" process template.

  9. Upload the process template again, browse for <template install dir>\Process Template\process template.xml.

  10. Close the Process Template Manager.

  You should now be able to create MSF-A+SDL projects. If you're experiencing the install bug, please let us know if this helps workaround the problem (or if it doesn't).

  Thanks,

  Bryan

Model-Based Testing with Spec Explorer announcements

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  This Forum Has Been Retired
  John Boylan Monday, December 3, 2012 11:31 PM

  This forum has been locked; it will still be available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 forum.

  
  
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  Brand New Release! Spec Explorer 2010 3.5 now available
  Xiang Li Friday, January 7, 2011 7:46 AM

  Hello!  We are delighted to announce the newest version of Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.5.

  Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 contains new features, improved documentation, plus over 60 bug fixes. Please consult the Release Notes and our Home Page to access this release.

   

   

  This release contains new / enhanced features including:

   

  ·        Model change detecting: The model change detecting feature detects all model changes and decides if Spec Explorer needs to re-explore the model. For specific machines, if Spec Explorer detects any change in the model code, cord script files, or other inputs, or detects a tool version change, Spec Explorer will start a new exploration; otherwise, Spec Explorer will use existing exploration result files for current exploration viewing, test code generation, and user customized post processing. The UI has been updated to allow you to force Spec Explorer to re-explore the machines. This feature greatly improves the user experience by preventing unneeded lengthy validation and exploration events, which frequently happened in previous versions.

  ·        Multiple machine processing: Now you can select multiple machines in Exploration Manager and explore, generate test code, or perform post processing tasks on them. For multiple machine processing, Spec Explorer generates a summary including all information of the batch-processing.
  

  ·        Cord context menu: Spec Explorer adds a new context menu item “Go To Definition” in the Cord editor, which enables users to navigate to specific configurations and machines. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the Cord editing user experience and the general integration of the tool with Visual Studio.

  We hope you enjoy this release and look forward to hearing feedback from the Spec Explorer community.

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  Have your say with the Spec Explorer User Survey!
  Rob DuWors Thursday, May 6, 2010 9:42 PM

  Hello Spec Explorers: We seek to gain a better idea of the Spec Explorer community and who is using the tool for what. We aim to bring you the best tool ever and your help will greatly appreciated if you could take a minute to fill in the Spec Explorer User Survey.  With thanks, The Spec Explorer Team.

MS-Build, Multi-Targeting and WiX in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements

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  Welcome to the "Building and Deploying Applications" forum
  kenwat Friday, October 24, 2008 10:50 PM

   Hi - I'm Ken Watson, the Release Manager for Visual Studio Platform. I'll be one of the moderators on this forum.

  We have provided this forum to gather your feedback on the scenarios described in the walkthroughs that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 CTP. At this stage in the release, we are interested in hearing your thoughts on the design of features presented in these walkthrough. We'll be taking more general feedback on the product when we get to the beta.
  
  We'll be discussing the following walkthroughs in this forum:
  
  - How to Create a Custom Platform
  - How to Create an Inline Task
  - How to Create Custom Property Pages
  - How to Use the C++ MSBuild Project System
  - How to Deploy an Application by Using WiX.
  - How to Prepare a Package for Non-Registry Deployment
  
  We look forward to hearing from you!
  
  thanks,
  Ken Watson
  Release Manager
  Visual Studio Platform
  
  

Multimap API Development Forum announcements

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  Important news about the Multimap Open API - NOV 2010
  John-Sheridan Wednesday, November 24, 2010 4:48 PM

  NOTE: This was originally posted on the Multimap Blog - http://blog.multimap.com/2010/11/19/important-news-about-the-multimap-open-api/

  The first post on this blog was the announcement of the Multimap Open API .
  
  In the 3½ years that have passed, the Open API has attracted a passionate group of developers building some great apps, especially based around our Ordnance Survey and Collins Bartholomew maps.
  
  It is therefore fitting that one of the last posts on this blog also concerns important news about the Multimap Open API.

  You may have seen earlier that we announced we are about to complete the movement of users from Multimap.com to Bing Maps . A number of you have asked on the forum whether this affects the Open API. We now have the last bits in place to provide you with a full reply.

  To better serve you and all of our customers, our future investments will now focus solely on Bing Maps APIs and on closing any major feature gaps between Bing and Multimap. This will enable us to accelerate delivering you more mapping and location-based services innovation through one platform, across web and mobile.

  Therefore, the Multimap Open API service will be discontinued on November 18th, 2011.

  To prepare for this change, we will soon discontinue the registration of new Open API keys. Existing keys will continue to operate until the switch off.

  We understand that this will be disappointing news for Open API developers, but there is a silver lining to this particular cloud…

  Our colleagues at Bing Maps have just released a major update to the Bing Maps AJAX control . In addition to major improvements in performance, mobile support and imagery, the Bing Maps AJAX map control now includes support for Ordnance Survey and Collins Bartholomew maps .

  Our commitment: We’re here to help . We have developed migration guides for both the AJAX map control and the REST web services to help get started with your planning process. The Bing Maps Developer Resources site , Bing Maps on MSDN , the Bing Community forums and the Bing Maps blog are also great resources.

  
  From everyone at Multimap, thank you to all Open API developers for your support over the past 3½ years, and we hope to see you build some great new apps on Bing Maps.

   

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  Multimap Forum Moving to Bing Community
  CMPendleton Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:40 PM

  For those of you who haven't noticed, we're moving the Multimap Developer Forums over to Bing Community. This is in an effort to consolidate all Bing Developer projects into one place for all guidance, help, information, blogs, etc. For now, the threads that are here on MSDN will remain on MSDN - we'll move them over soon. For new threads on Bing Maps, please begin posting them to Bing Community. In addition to moving the forums to Bing Community, we've broken the forums up by API so if you're developing for a specific topic - AJAX, Siverlight, etc. - you can select the forum of interest as follows:

  MultiMap API

  Bing Maps Platform – AJAX

  Bing Maps Platform – REST Services

  Bing Maps Platform – Silverlight

  Bing Maps Platform – SOAP Services

  General Questions

  Bing Map App Development

   

  On behalf of the Bing Maps Team, we look forward to seeing your conversations moved over to Bing Community and thanks for using Bing!

  CP

  Chris Pendleton

  Bing Maps Technical Evangelist

  Microsoft Corporation 

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  Welcome to Multimap API
  MelissaMS Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:37 PM

  Welcome to the Multimap API forum!
  
  This is the place for any and all questions pertaining to the development of applications using Multimap's API and Web Service APIs. Please feel free to add any questions which we have not yet covered and we will try our best to help you.

Monitor, Alert and Auto scale in Azure announcements

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  Threads moved to the Azure Management Portal forum
  John Wood (Cadence 3) Monday, August 4, 2014 10:42 PM

  The threads in this forum have been moved to the Azure Management Portal forum