What's the status of CAT.NET 2.0?

Question

I’m trying to find Microsoft CAT.NET for VS2010 and it looks like there was a beta of their 2.0 version but every link to it in Microsoft Connect is now dead. This is the most recent reference I could find: http://blogs.msdn.com/securitytools/archive/2010/02/05/how-to-use-cat-net-2-0-beta.aspx

Some references suggest it may have been rolled into FxCop. Does anyone know the status of the project?

Answer 1

Hi - I'm the Program Manager for CAT.NET.  We were looking to release CAT.NET v2.0 but ran into a design issue at the last moment which caused us to delay the release.  At this point we are working with internal teams to determine how to best fix this concern.  Once we have a solution and definitive timeframe we’ll announce the new release date. We have pulled the external beta from the site until this can be resolved.

 

Answer 2

Frank, any more recent status updates? I think it's clear the community is excited about this technology - sure hope to see it soon.

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Senior QA Engineer & Testing Team Lead

Answer 3

I agree with John!  Frankbr any additional word on status?  Is there a goal for what quarter CAT.NET might launch?

Answer 4

Hi Frank,

Any update on the proposed release date. As I am very curious about it.

Answer 5

I would also like to know the status of this.  Please let us have an update.

The current version I have I am getting an OutOfMemoryException which I have seen a couple others also report.

Thanks,

Shawn

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Shawn

Answer 6

I also like to know the status of CAT.NET 2.0.

We now develope ASP.NET 4.0 and need the new CAT.NET 2.0 to scan security issues.

Any milestone or release date, please let me know.

Thansk.

 

Charles

Answer 7

I'm also looking for a status of CAT.NET v2.0

Answer 8

Same here. Would be nice to get some sign that this project is still alive.

Answer 9

Same here - would love to know the status or better yet have CAT 2.0 released. 

Frank Br, Program Manager of the CAT.NET team - we are in limbo since June 29, 2010 - 127 days I believe?  Are you still on the team?  Is CAT.NET still on a roadmap?  How can we get more information?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 10

Agree with everyone on thread.  Can someone from Microsoft respond to this thread regarding the updated status on CAT.NET 2.0?  We are looking to intergrate CAT.NET's security scanning as we use the latest VS suite of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS.

Please provide some feedback so we in the field can make informed decisions as to stick with CAT.NET for find an alternative.

Answer 11

Hi,

 

I wanted to provide an update to the CAT.NET project since it’s been a while since my last communication.  Internally we have version 2.0 of CAT.NET running.  Unfortunately, some of the features we relied on in Visual Studio’s code analysis did not make it into the final product.  We are working with the Visual Studio team to include the features needed. 

 

In the meantime our team had been investigating options to bypass the missing libraries.  This is not an ideal solution because we’ll be omitting the seamless integration with Visual Studio.   We believe we have a solution and have provided estimates to fix this problem.  Because this effort was not planned, we are investigating how to fit this effort into our current work load.  We should have some news by the end of March if not sooner.

 

Cheers,

Frank

Answer 12

Great to hear some news form the inside, may I suggest you keep the forum up-to-date so we do not have to hunt for updates:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/is/catnet/threads

 

Many thanks

 

Answer 13

We're integrating cat.net with our build system and running it using command line without the VS integration. It would have been great to get a version that works even if it doesn't integrate with VS.

Answer 14

Hi Frank,

Any update on when this will be available? I have a security talk at tech-ed in may and would love to be able to tell people it's available and working now for 2010.

Thanks!

Adam

 

Answer 15

Frank thanks for this update.  Sounds like some serious work on the MS side - we appreciate your efforts & believe that CAT.NET will be a critical improvement to the overall VS/TFS/.NET space.

Until a decision is made on the product/release could we (as the interested dev community) as that your team give us a quarterly update on the status?

Also, is there someone in MS that we should contact about CAT.NET?  We want to make sure Microsoft knows that the dev community knows this is a desired feature & worthy of MS developer time.

Answer 16

Frank thanks for this update.  Sounds like some serious work on the MS side - we appreciate your efforts & believe that CAT.NET will be a critical improvement to the overall VS/TFS/.NET space.

Until a decision is made on the product/release could we (as the interested dev community) as that your team give us a quarterly update on the status?

Also, is there someone in MS that we should contact about CAT.NET?  We want to make sure Microsoft knows that the dev community knows this is a desired feature & worthy of MS developer time.

Just want to let you know that my group is very interested in this tool. Can't wait to have it.

Answer 17

Tag me, please.