.NET Framework Class Libraries announcements

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  For ASP.NET Questions, please go to http://forums.asp.net/
  David M Morton Monday, February 22, 2010 2:09 PM

  ASP.NET Questions are off-topic in .NET Base class library, and will be moved to the Off-Topic forum when posted.  Please ask questions relating to ASP.NET at the ASP.NET Forums.

.NET Framework inside SQL Server announcements

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  Scope and purpose of this forum
  Bob Beauchemin Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:28 PM

  This forum covers questions regarding .NET assemblies and database objects running as part of SQL Server including user-defined types, user-defined aggregates, UDFs, triggers, and stored procedures implemented in .NET code. supported by SQL Server 2005 and later versions. Other questions regarding SQL Server database access and other related technologies should be directed to the most appropriate forum to obtain the best response.

  Questions on SQL Server .NET Client (SqlClient) data access should be posted to the ADO.NET data provider forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/threads

  Questions on using SQL Server with ASP.NET should be posted to the ASP.NET forums: http://forums.asp.net/

  Questions on writing Transact-SQL code, including T-SQL stored procedures, UDFs, and triggers: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/threads

  Questions on installation problems pertaining to .NET installations should be posted to the SQL Server Setup and Upgrade forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsetupandupgrade/threads

  Questions on problems using SQL Server Data Tools: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqltools/threads

  Questions on using other Data Access APIs (e.g. ODBC, OLE DB): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldataaccess/threads

  Questions on writing code for SQL Server Compact Edition: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlce/threads

  Questions on SQL Server Express-specific issues: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/threads

  Questions that are off-topic in this forum may be moved to one of the other, more relevent, forums to ensure the best, most prompt response and facilitate forum-specific searchng for similar questions that have already been resolved.

.NET Native Preview announcements

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  Welcome to Microsoft .NET Native!!!
  Robert Fu [MSFT] Tuesday, April 1, 2014 11:20 PM

  .NET Native compiles C# to native machine code that performs like C++. You will continue to benefit from the productivity and familiarity of the .NET Framework with the great performance of native code. Popular Windows Store apps start up to 60% faster and use 15-20% less memory when compiled with .NET Native.

  Useful resources for .NET Native

  Download .NET Native Developer Preview and general resources:
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=394990

  MSDN Documentation for .NET Native:
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=392862

  General .NET announcements:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet

Ad Revenue, Payout & Taxes announcements

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  Forum Migration
  Patrick Gale (MSFT) Monday, August 1, 2016 2:30 PM

  Please be advised that in an effort to provide a more unified Dev Center experience the ads-in-apps forums have been moved as of August 01, 2016 into the same location housing the other Dev Center forums.
  
  If you already have links to the forums for App/Ad Unit Management, Promote Your App, and AdSDK they should continue to work. The Payout and Reporting forums have been combined and content migrated with the Dev Center Payout and Reporting Forum. All of the original posts and replies still remain and can be found in the new locations.

  If you have any specific questions regarding the forum migration please contact support via the Dev Center Support Portal.

ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities (Pre-Release) announcements

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  ########__ PRE-RELEASE FORUM CLOSED - CONSIDER ASKING EF QUESTIONS ON STACK OVERFLOW __########
  Rowan Miller Monday, March 12, 2012 5:11 PM

  This Entity Framework Pre-Release forum is closed.

  We are seeing a lot of great Entity Framework questions (and answers) from the community on Stack Overflow. As a result, our team is going to spend more time reading and answering questions posted on Stack Overflow.

  We would encourage you to post questions on Stack Overflow using the entity-framework tag. We will also continue to monitor the Entity Framework forum.

  Entity Framework Team

ADO.NET Managed Providers announcements

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  Annual SQL Connectivity Customer Survey
  Luiz Fernando Santos Friday, August 19, 2011 10:49 PM

  We view your organization as a key stakeholder in the process that we have to identify areas for future investments for SQL Connectivity components that address major development platforms, including ODBC, ADO.NET, JDBC and PHP. The feedback you provide is valuable and each response will be read and will be treated with utmost confidence. The survey can be found in the link below and will be available until 9th September, 2011 5:00 PM PST. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CS45XT9FE/.

  Thanks

   

  Raghu Ram

  SQL Connectivity Group Program Manager

Announcements for all Forums announcements

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  Purpose of this forum - please read before posting here
  Pam Sallee Friday, February 15, 2008 7:49 PM

  This is an announcements forum, intended for the forums team to communicate important news to all Forums users. Please do not post here unless you have reason to make an announcement. While we appreciate all of the smoke-testing while these forums are new, we respectfully request that you do that in the Sandbox forums for any of the brands.
  
  Thanks for using the new Forums!