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

  
  

Script Junkie Discussion announcements

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  Welcome to the Script Junkie Forum
  Rey Bango Monday, June 7, 2010 6:39 PM

  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

   

Live Connect (Archived) announcements

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  Live SDK v5.5 JWT Consent Changes
  Toan Nguyen-Azure Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:45 PM

  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 5^thMay, 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 released
  JOshiro Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:29 PM

  Live SDK v5.4 is now available for download. New additions to this version of the SDK include:

  •          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.
    
  •          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.
    
  •          .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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  Support for XMPP ends in October 2013
  Navdeep Bawa Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:35 PM

  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:

  •          Messenger API (Live Connect)
  •          Getting started using Messenger with XMPP (Live Connect)
  •          XMPP code examples (Live Connect) 
  •          Messenger XMPP reference (Live Connect)
  •          Sharing a user's status (Live Connect)
  •          Sharing badge (Live Connect)

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  Live SDK v5.3 released
  Shelly Guo Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:03 AM

  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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  Application provisioning API will be deprecated in March 2013.
  Shelly Guo Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:40 AM

  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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  Changes in OAuth Endpoints
  Navdeep Bawa-MSFT Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:32 PM

  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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  Support Operation Hours for Live Connect Forum
  Navdeep Bawa-MSFT Monday, April 9, 2012 11:03 PM

  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!!!

  Live Connect Support Team

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  Live Connect open source projects and samples on github
  Steve Gordon - MSFT Tuesday, August 2, 2011 8:54 PM

  Check out our open source depot on github: https://github.com/liveservices/
  
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  Messenger Connect v4.1 is now deprecated
  Dare Obasanjo - MSFT Saturday, June 25, 2011 12:25 AM

  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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  Live Connect v5.2 released
  Dare Obasanjo - MSFT Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:11 PM

  
  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.

  1.

  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.

SyncFx - General [ReadOnly] announcements

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  This forums is moving Jan 23, 2010
  Liam Cavanagh - MSFT Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:27 PM

  One piece of feedback we receive fairly frequently is that given the number of Sync Framework forums, it is confusing, where to best find answers and ask questions relating to specific components of the Sync Framework.  For that reason, we have created a new single (unified) forum for you to use for anything relating to the Microsoft Sync Framework:

   

  SyncFx - Microsoft Sync Framework Developer Discussions
  

  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/syncdevdiscussions/threads
  
  As a result, as of Jan 23^rd, 2010 this forum will be locked and will only be available in read mode to allow you to search and read archived questions.  Any questions that were submitted since Jan 1, 2010 in the below forums will be moved to this new location and will continue to be active in their new location.  So please start tracking them in their new location.
   

  SyncFx - General

  SyncFx - Technical Discussion

  SyncFx – Feedback

  SyncFx - Microsoft Sync Framework Database Providers

   

  Liam Cavanagh

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
  
  

Forums Redesign - Q&A / Discussions announcements

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  How to share your feedback on the new design
  Bryant Hawthorne - MSFT Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:39 PM

  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.

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.

.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

Windows Phone Preview OS Issues announcements

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  Preview for Developers - OS Consumer Support Moved
  Eli A Monday, July 28, 2014 3:26 PM

  Folks
  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=winphoneosissues

  Thank you,

  Eli A.

Windows Live Messenger Web APIs: Development announcements

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  Messenger Web Toolkit V3.7 Released!
  Keiji Kanazawa - MSFT Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:12 PM

  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

Windows Live Messenger Client: Development (retired) announcements

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  Hotmail Support
  djartsinc Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:46 AM

   For issues with hotmail accounts, please use this link to get help support
  
  http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp
  
  or see Windows Live Solution Center
  
  http://windowslivehelp.com/
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  Microsoft Exchange/Outlook questions
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 8:22 PM

  For Microsoft Exchange questions, please post in this forum listed below
  
  
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/exchangeserver
  
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  How to remove MSN Virus
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 7:27 PM

  This link provides more information, and provides tools to remove the msn virus
  
  http://www.technibble.com/how-to-remove-msn-virus-project-1-generic2exo-backdoorgeneric3sat/
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  Messenger Support
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 7:22 PM

  For messenger support, please see Messenger Support Space at:
  
  http://messenger-support.spaces.live.com/

Visual Studio Editor announcements

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  Choosing the right forum for your topic
  Brittany Behrens Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:03 AM

  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/threads

  Thanks for your help in posting questions where they are most likely to be answered!

Expression Studio announcements

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  Expression Studio Forum is now locked
  Lori Dirks Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:44 PM

  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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  Microsoft Expression News (20 December 2012)
  Lori Dirks Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:26 PM

  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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  API and Live dev app questions
  djartsinc Wednesday, August 5, 2009 6:07 AM

  For API and Live developer app issues , please direct your questions and feedback to the Developers Lounge area in the Bing Community forums
  
  http://www.bing.com/toolbox/developers/?FORM=Z9FD2

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  How to remove MSN Virus
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 5:46 PM

  Please click on the link for more information and removal tools
  
  http://www.technibble.com/how-to-remove-msn-virus-project-1-generic2exo-backdoorgeneric3sat/
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  About Spaces
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 4:03 PM

  If you want to know more about Windows Live Spaces, take the tour at
  
  http://windowslive.com/Explore
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  Feedback and Suggestions
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 3:56 PM

  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
  
  also at
  
  http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/
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  Hotmail Support
  djartsinc Friday, July 17, 2009 3:52 PM

  For hotmail tech support, please click on the link below
  
  http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp

Bing Maps: Map Control and Web services Development announcements

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  New Bing Maps Forums
  Ricky_Brundritt Friday, March 16, 2012 7:04 PM

  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 General

  · Bing Maps AJAX Map Controls

  · 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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  Important Information about Bing Maps Spatial Data Services
  Chris Pendleton (MSFT) Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:53 AM

  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

  Sr. Program Manager, Lead

  Bing Maps, Microsoft Corp.

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  Bing Maps AJAX v7 Interactive SDK Released
  tanoshimi Friday, May 6, 2011 9:16 AM

  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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  Bing Maps 3D control has been discontinued
  tanoshimi Thursday, November 4, 2010 9:52 AM

  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

Windows Live Writer: Development announcements

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  Future requests and feedback
  djartsinc Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:47 AM

  Have ideas for future requests? Or, want to give feedback. The live writers team would love to hear your ideas.
  
  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wlwdev/thread/3e21cdc4-650e-44b7-bbe3-e3f10a2d413f
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  How to get support
  djartsinc Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:31 AM

  Click on this link to get technicle support for windows live writer
  
  https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlwriter&page=wlsupport_home_options_form_byemail&ct=eformts
  
  Also visit The Writers Zone for the latest updates
  
  http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/default.aspx
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  WLW News
  djartsinc Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:17 AM

  For the latest windows live writer news and updates, visit the WLW team blog
  
  http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
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  Hotmail questions
  djartsinc Sunday, July 19, 2009 4:10 AM

  For Hotmail issues, please follow this link for tech support
  
  http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ua_info.asp

Reporting 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.

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.

SQL Server 2012 Setup and Installation (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" - Setup and Installation questions
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:21 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Setup and Installation questions

SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Excel (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" - PowerPivot for Excel questions
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:22 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" PowerPivot for Excel questions

SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" - Integration Services questions
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:23 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Integration Services questions.

SQL Server 2012 High Availability and Disaster Recovery (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Welcome to the SQL Server "Denali" AlwaysOn for High Availability and Disaster Recovery Forum
  Justin Erickson Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:38 PM

  Welcome to the SQL Server "Denali" AlwaysOn forum for high availability and disaster recovery. The SQL Server product team actively monitors and responds to this forum.

  To report any bugs or provide suggestions, please vote on or file items through Microsft Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver

  See the SQL Server "Denali" AlwaysOn Resource Center for more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/gg490638(en-us,MSDN.10)

SQL Server 2012 Spatial (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Spatial
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:47 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Spatial questions.

SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Analysis Services
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:42 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Analysis Services questions.

SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for SharePoint (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" PowerPivot for SharePoint
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:43 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" PowerPivot for SharePoint questions.

SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Denali RC0 available for download!
  Robert Bruckner Friday, November 18, 2011 5:02 AM

  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145

  The following blog post summarizes much of the new functionality added in Power View for RC0:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2011/11/17/what-s-new-in-power-view.aspx

   

  Enjoy!

SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services (Pre-Release) announcements

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  Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Master Data Services
  edhickey Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:45 PM

  This is the Forum for SQL Server "Denali" Master Data Services questions.

Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva announcements

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  Welcome to the "Geneva" forum
  Marc Goodner Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:00 PM

  The Federated Identity ”Geneva”  team is happy to announce the release of Microsoft code name “Geneva”, an open platform for simplified user access based on claims.  This release consists of three components:  Geneva Framework for .NET developers, Geneva Server for IT Pros, and Windows CardSpace “Geneva”. 

   

  You can find all of our installation downloads and supporting documentation for each component of the Geneva platform on the “Geneva” Connect site.

Cognitive Services announcements

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  Microsoft Project Oxford is now Microsoft Cognitive Services
  Ryan Galgon - MSFT Monday, April 4, 2016 7:03 PM

  First off: there are no changes to the API endpoints or keys you are already using from Project Oxford.

  On March 30th at the //build/ conference we announced Microsoft Cognitive Services. Bringing together the services from Project Oxford along with Bing’s v5 Search APIs and additional machine learning based services from across Microsoft, there are now even more capabilities available to developers to easily add intelligent features across Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, and Search capabilities.

  Please visit our new site at: www.microsoft.com/cognitive to learn more and start using the new services today. 

  For more details on Cognitive Services and related announcement from //build/ please see this blog post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/03/30/from-analytical-applications-to-intelligent-solutions/ 

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  FaceAPIs - v1.0 now available. Includes breaking changes from v0
  Ryan Galgon - MSFT Saturday, December 19, 2015 12:03 AM

  Signature Changes:

  The root service endpoint has changed from https://api.projectoxford.ai/face/v0/ to https://api.projectoxford.ai/face/v1.0/

  There are several signature changes for methods such as Face-Detect, Face-Identify, Face-Find Similar, Face-Group, so please see the v1.0 documentation for all the details. 

  Higher Call Limits:

  Quota	New Limit
  Group: Faces to be grouped	Now returns up to 1,000 candidates (previous limit was 100)
  Find Similar: Candidate faces allowed	Now returns up to 1,000 candidates (previous limit was 100)
  Person: Persisted faces per Person Object	Now store up to 248 per Person object (previous limit was 32)

  (Posted: 2015-12-18)

Orchard –Discussions announcements

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  Please use CodePlex Discussions instead of this forum
  Bertrand Le Roy Friday, January 6, 2012 1:32 AM

  Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum:

  http://orchard.codeplex.com/discussions

Orchard - Help and Support announcements

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  Forum is closed
  Sandra Aldana - MSFT Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:49 PM

  Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum:

  http://orchard.codeplex.com/discussions

  
  
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  Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum
  Bertrand Le Roy Friday, January 6, 2012 1:33 AM

  Please use the CodePlex discussions instead of this forum:

  http://orchard.codeplex.com/discussions

Azure Mobile Engagement announcements

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  Forum is closed
  Sandra Aldana - MSFT Friday, November 9, 2018 11:33 PM

  This forum is closed as the product does no longer exist.
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  Quick Tips for former Capptain customers who are new to Azure
  Micah Adamson Thursday, June 11, 2015 12:00 AM

  Quick Tips for former Capptain customers who are new to Azure:

  1. You can setup a free 30 trial of Azure if you don't have a subscription: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
  2. However, to avoid losing access to your AzME trial apps when your free Azure trial expires, you can setup a "pay as you go" Azure subscription instead of a free trial: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0003p/
  3. Then, with a  "pay as you go" account, as long as you have less than 100 monthly active users, your AzME apps are still free to use long term: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/mobile-engagement/
  4. You will be billed for any other Azure services in addition to AzME that you use as the standard rates: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
  5. You can setup a "spending limit" to ensure that you don’t accidentally spend too much per month: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/spending-limits/
  6. If you want to pay for your Azure subscription by invoice instead of credit card, you can setup "pay by invoice": http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/invoicing/
  7. You can open a Billing or Account related SR for free from any Azure subscription: https://manage.windowsazure.com/?getsupport=true
  8. You can even open a Billing or Account related SR for free without an existing Azure subscription: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=544831&clcid=0x409
  9. You have to purchase technical support plans to be eligible to open a Technical Support SR (even though Billing or Account related SRs are free): http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/
  10. BizSpark members can access AzME with their BizSpark Azure benefits: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0064p/
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  Azure Mobile Engagement - Links
  Micah Adamson Wednesday, February 18, 2015 10:20 PM

  Overview:

  Announcement: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/18/azure-mobile-engagement-now-in-public-preview/

  Main Page: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mobile-engagement/

  Pricing: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/mobile-engagement/

  Preview Sign Up: https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures

  Documentation:

  SDK Documentation: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/mobile-engagement/

  API Documentation on
  MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn913744.aspx

  UI Documentation: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-user-interface/

  Troubleshooting: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-troubleshooting-guide/

  How-Tos: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-how-tos/

  Support:

  MSDN Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/home?forum=azuremobileengagement

  Feature Requests/Feedback: http://feedback.azure.com/forums/285737-mobile-engagement

  Azure Portals:

  Azure Current Portal: https://manage.windowsazure.com/

  Azure Preview Portal: https://portal.azure.com/

  Azure Billing Portal: https://account.windowsazure.com/

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

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 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.

   

Code Contracts announcements

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  Forum is closed
  Sandra Aldana - MSFT Friday, February 8, 2019 1:42 AM

  This forum is now closed. Thank you all for your participation.

  Regards,

  MSDN Forums team

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  CodeContracts Sources are now available on GitHub!!!
  Francesco Logozzo Tuesday, January 6, 2015 9:15 PM

  We just released the CodeContracts tools as Open Source on

  https://github.com/CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts

  We accept contribution!!!

  The CodeContracts team

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  CodeContracts Sources are now available on GitHub!!!
  Francesco Logozzo Tuesday, January 6, 2015 9:15 PM

  We just released the CodeContracts tools as Open Source on

  https://github.com/CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts

  We accept contribution!!!

  The CodeContracts team

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  New version of the tools released!!!! (v1.7.11106.10)
  Francesco Logozzo Monday, September 8, 2014 5:34 PM

  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 version released!!!! (v1.7.10903.10)
  Francesco Logozzo Monday, September 8, 2014 5:33 PM

  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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  NEW: CodeContracts Blog
  Francesco Logozzo Friday, September 5, 2014 12:07 AM

  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 happened. New VS2010 and VS2012 Contract editor extensions are available on the gallery
  RiSE (Research in Software Engineering) Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:25 PM

  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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  External projects using Code Contracts?
  Mike Barnett Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:09 PM

  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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  Welcome to Code Contracts for .NET
  Mike Barnett Friday, February 20, 2009 2:28 AM

  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.

Azure Virtual Machines announcements

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  South Central US Outage 9/4/2018
  Micah McKittrick Tuesday, September 4, 2018 4:32 PM

  We are currently experiencing an outage in South Central US

  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

  You will want to monitor the Azure Status Page for further updates.
  

  Once the issue has mitigated all Virtual Machines and data should be restored and fully functional. After the issue has been mitigated and if you are still seeing issues let us know. 

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  Remote Desktop Connection Issues: CredSSP
  Micah McKittrick Monday, May 14, 2018 8:40 PM

  With the release of the March 2018 Security bulletin, there was a fix that addressed a CredSSP, “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability (CVE-2018-0886) which could impact RDP connections. The vulnerability was discovered to which the exploits observed were:

  • Targets receive a malicious RTF Microsoft Office document
  • After being opened, the malicious document causes the second stage of the exploit to be downloaded in the form of an HTML page with malicious code
  • The malicious code triggers the use-after-free memory-corruption bug
  • Accompanying shellcode then downloads and executes a malicious payload

  For additional information regarding this update and mitigation steps see the following blog: 

  Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation 

  For general discussion of this topic please see: 

  General Discussion - Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption

  If the mitigation steps detailed in the above links do not solve your problem please submit a new forum post to: 

  Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication announcements

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  UPDATE: Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Resolved
  Marilee Turscak - MSFT Monday, November 19, 2018 6:56 PM

  Azure MFA faced a global outage this morning. This issue is now mitigated. If you are still receiving this issue, please open a new thread and we will work with you to resolve it.

  Anyone testing with the Authenticator app should use the refresh option to check for notifications.

   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
  

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  Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is Now Generally Available
  Steve Justice [MSFT] Monday, September 30, 2013 6:32 PM

  Identity and access management is an anchor for security and top of mind for enterprise IT departments. It is key to extending anytime, anywhere access to employees, partners, and customers. Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is now available to deliver increased access security and convenience for IT and end users.

  In addition to entering a username and password during sign in, users also authenticate with the Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication app on their mobile device or via an automated phone call or text message. In order for an attacker to gain access to the user’s account, they would need to know the user’s login credentials and be in possession of the user’s phone.  This increases security while using mobile devices and methods that are familiar to users.

  For more information, see the article: Announcing General Availability of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication