Microsoft Robotics - Simulation announcements

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  Announcing Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta
  Trevor Taylor Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:12 AM

  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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  Announcing Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta
  Trevor Taylor Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:13 AM

  Please see the announcement of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta in the Community Forum.

  Visit the Microsoft Robotics Home Page for more information.

   

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) announcements

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  The April 2019 release of the Threat Modeling Tool is now available
  Jeremy Geib [MSFT] Thursday, April 11, 2019 11:53 PM

  The latest version of the Threat Modeling Tool can be downloaded directly from https://aka.ms/threatmodelingtool

  Release notes for the new version of the tool are located in Azure Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/azure-security-threat-modeling-tool-releases-71604081

Microsoft Solver Foundation announcements

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  The Future of Microsoft Solver Foundation
  Mary Beth Hribar Friday, May 25, 2012 6:28 PM

  As users have pointed out, Microsoft has not been active on the Solver Foundation forums since Nate left.   We have been quiet while we have gone through restructuring and planning.  Some would say we have been too quiet.  We know we have very loyal and enthusiastic users who want to know the future of Solver Foundation.  So, here is a long overdue statement about our plans for Solver Foundation. 

  The current 3.1 release of MSF will be the last release as a standalone install.  We are working hard on integrating Microsoft Solver Foundation into a larger analytics framework that will help users build both prescriptive and predictive analytics.  We look forward to releasing this new product for your use as soon as we are able to do so.  This new product will provide a migration path for current Solver Foundation users and partners.   

  We would like to continue to keep the current forum open to the community to discuss MSF until the release of the new product. However, Microsoft will be providing limited support of MSF in terms of monitoring the forums and providing bug fixes during this transition time.                                                                                                                                

  We have been responding to email and will continue to do so.  If you have feedback on issues/bugs/improvements, we welcome your feedback via msfsupport@microsoft.com.  Please check back on the forum for future announcements with regards to the new analytics product.

  Thanks for your support.

  The Solver Foundation Team

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  Solver Foundation 3.1 released
  Nate Brixius Monday, September 12, 2011 8:11 PM

  We are pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft Solver Foundation 3.1. You can download the Express version here, and you can read more about it by checking out the Solver Foundation team blog.

  Thanks, Nathan

   

   

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  Mosek connector for Solver Foundation
  Nate Brixius Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:38 PM

  We are pleased to announce an updated Solver Foundation connector to the popular MOSEK solver. The connector is available as a free download:

  • 32-bit Mosek connector
  • 64-bit Mosek connector

  The zip file contains a dll and installation instructions. Also consult this blog post for more information. Using the connector requires the installation of the MOSEK solver - visit mosek.com for details.

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  Welcome!
  Nate Brixius Friday, April 22, 2011 3:13 PM

  Welcome to the Solver Foundation Forum! This is a great place to ask questions about Solver Foundation, talk about how you are using Solver Foundation, and connect with other users. You may also find the following resources helpful:

  • MSDN documentation for Solver Foundation.
  • Questions and answers on the old MSDN Solver Foundation Forum.
  • Solver Foundation Team blog.

  Enjoy!

Microsoft StreamInsight announcements

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  StreamInsight V2.1 Released
  Roman Schindlauer Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:42 PM

  Dear StreamInsight users,

  We just officially announced our new StreamInsight V2.1 release - you can find all the relevant information including download links in the StreamInsight blog!

  Regards,
  Roman

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  StreamInsight V1.2 Released
  Roman Schindlauer Monday, July 18, 2011 7:38 PM

  We just officially announced our new StreamInsight V1.2 release - you can find all the relevant information including download links in our latest blog posting!

  Regards,
  Roman

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  StreamInsight on Twitter
  Roman Schindlauer Tuesday, June 1, 2010 5:41 PM

  As appeared on the blog:

  Finally: The StreamInsight Development Team is now tweeting! Follow streaminsight to receive latest announcements and news. We are excited about the opportunity to use this push-channel to deliver messages to our developer and user community, that's the true spirit of an event-driven world!

  Regards,

  The StreamInsight Team

Microsoft Translator Developer & Web Master Support announcements

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  Microsoft Translator Feedback and Support has Moved
  Microsoft Translator Monday, January 25, 2016 6:23 PM

  To receive feedback and support for Microsoft Translator, please navigate to translatorbusiness.uservoice.com.

  You can also view our blog at aka.ms/TranslatorBlog.

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  Using the tech domain with Microsoft Translator
  Chris Wendt Thursday, September 11, 2014 5:41 PM

  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
  • th
  • tr
  • zh-hans
  • zh-hant

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  Known issues with translation in Microsoft Word
  Chris Wendt Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:44 PM

  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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  Getting Started with Microsoft Translator
  Lane Rau Monday, March 23, 2009 9:40 PM

  Microsoft Translator developer offerings provide developers a wide spectrum of translation and language APIs for integration into their applications and services.

  AJAX Interface The AJAX interface provides your web applications with JavaScript based access to translation services. SOAP Interface The SOAP interface provides a strongly typed, web service standards based programming model supporting rich development environments such as the .NET framework. HTTP Interface The HTTP interface provides a high degree of interoperability for any network enabled application and supports a broad range of development environments. MSDN reference for Microsoft Translator APIs Comprehensive reference for Microsoft Translator APIs on MSDN.

  Sign up for the Microsoft Translator API 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 Blog Microsoft Translator Developer Forum

  
  

Microsoft Translator Hub Forum announcements

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  Microsoft Translator Hub Feedback and Support has Moved
  Microsoft Translator Thursday, January 28, 2016 8:56 PM

  To receive feedback and support for Microsoft Translator, please navigate to translatorbusiness.uservoice.com.

  You can also view our blog at aka.ms/TranslatorBlog.

Microsoft Translator User Forum (Including Bing Translator) announcements

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  How to add newly released languages to your Office apps?
  Microsoft Translator Friday, March 20, 2015 12:05 AM

  How to add newly released languages to your list of languages in Office?

  As new languages are added to the core Microsoft Translator service, these languages will appear automatically in www.bing.com/translator, Internet Explorer, Skype Translator IM translation, etc.

  However, for these to appear in Office, Word for instance, you need to first update the list. This is pretty simple and here are the detailed steps to do this. It will take less than a minute to do this

  1. Open word, type a short (5 words of more) text, select the text
  2. Go to the review tab, select “translation” and “translate selected text”
  3. This will open the research pane and you will see a link towards the bottom of the pane that say “Get update to your services” 
     • If you click on the menu “from” or “to” you will see that the new language is not in the list
  4. Click on this “Get update to your services” link.,
  5. Click on “Update”, then “Continue” on the pop-up Windows
  6. Click on “Install” (figure 3)
     
  7. Then “OK” and “Close”
     
  8. All done! Now the new language is available.

  Questions? Comments? www.MicrosoftTranslator.com/forum

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  Known issue on Word translation
  Microsoft Translator Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:48 PM

  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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  Welcome to the Microsoft Translator User forum
  Vikram Dendi Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:40 PM

  This forum provides support for Microsoft Translator powered end-user products - Bing Translator, Office Translator, Windows Live Toolbar, Internet Explorer Accelerator etc.
  If you are looking for support with Developer and Webmaster offerings - please go to our MSDN forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/microsofttranslator/threads
  
  

Microsoft Unified Communications Web API announcements

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  UCWA Documentation and sandbox is available
  Kai Strandskov [Msft] Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:37 PM

  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 

  
  
  

MSBuild announcements

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  Debugging MSBuild scripts using Visual Studio 2010
  Jay Shrestha Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:05 PM

  Take a look at the Blog post below by Dan Moseley.

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/07/06/debugging-msbuild-script-with-visual-studio.aspx

MSDN and TechNet Profile and Recognition System Discussions announcements

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  NEW! Recognition Details now available in the FAQ
  Sean Jenkin Thursday, September 1, 2011 7:35 PM

  The FAQ has been updated (currently only the EN-US FAQ) to now contain details of the activities, points and achievements in the recognition system. Start here and give it a read: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff395928#_Recognition_System

  If you have questions or feedback, please use this Forum so we can capture the conversations and update the FAQ as time goes.

  Thanks!

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  What's APPROPRIATE for this Profile Forum?
  Sean Jenkin Friday, April 15, 2011 7:31 PM

  It's for discussions on our profile system and our new recognition system. It is not a place to ask questions about Windows or Sharepoint or Insert your product here. There are specific forums for products and technologies. Please use them. Out of context forum threads will be deleted from this forum.

MSDN and TechNet Search Feedback announcements

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  Code Search Retired from MSDN Search
  Faisal Jamil Thursday, September 2, 2010 3:44 PM

  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=456

   

  http://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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  Current Search Issues For Some Forums
  Armahg Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:34 PM

  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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  Welcome to MSDN, TechNet, and Expression Site Search Feedback forum!
  justingrant Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:29 AM

  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 Subscriptions Feedback announcements

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  Welcome to the MSDN Subscriptions Forum!
  Mike Kinsman Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:55 PM

  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