C Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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Link
There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
-Eric (ebattali@microsoft.com)
Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva announcements
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Link
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.
ClickOnce and Setup announcements
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Link
Hi,
I've posted a new blog entry about ClickOnce and Windows 8 and the Smart Screen filter. I collaborated with someone at Microsoft to create this; I hope it's helpful.
http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/windows-8-and-clickonce-the-definitive-answer-2/
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Link
In Visual Studio 2010, we have partnered with Flexera, makers of InstallShield, to create InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 just for Visual Studio 2010 customers. The InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 offers comparable functionality to the Visual Studio Installer projects. In addition, you can build your deployment projects using Team Foundation Server and MSBuild. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deployment_technologies/archive/2010/04/20/installshield-limited-edition-is-available-for-download-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx.
With InstallShield available, the Visual Studio Installer project types will not be available in future versions of Visual Studio. To preserve existing customer investments in Visual Studio Installer projects, Microsoft will continue to support the Visual Studio Installer projects feature that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 and below as per our product life-cycle strategy. For more information, see Expanded Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy for Business & Development Products.
-
Link
The InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition is a free version of InstallShield for Visual Studio developers that replaces the functionality provided by the Visual Studio setup and deployment projects.
Here are some highlights of the product:
• Use Visual Studio to create installation projects for applications built with Visual Studio.
• Build your installation projects with MSBuild
• Jumpstart projects with a simple design environment and Project Assistant.
• Take advantage of Installation Prerequisites and Custom Actions.
• Digitally sign your installers.
Need a feature that is not supported in the Visual Studio deployment projects? Try the InstallShield Limited Edition. You can easily migrate your existing Visual Studio deployment projects into InstallShield Limited Edition installation projects with a few clicks. The installation projects created with the InstallShield Limited Edition are compatible with other versions of InstallShield products. This enables you to upgrade to higher version of InstallShield with a more advanced feature set.
To obtain the InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition, complete the following steps:
1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
2. Expand the Other Project Types node.
3. Expand the Setup and Deployment node.
4. Click InstallShield LE.
5. Click Enable InstallShield Limited Edition, and then click OK.
6. Click Go to InstallShield.
Note: You must register by using your email address before downloading the product.
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
-
Link
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:
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Link
You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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Link
As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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Link
The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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Link
Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
-
Link
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Code Contracts announcements
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Link
This forum is now closed. Thank you all for your participation.
Regards,
MSDN Forums team
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Link
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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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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Link
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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Link
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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Link
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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Link
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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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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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.
Cognitive Services announcements
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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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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)
Cost Management - Cloudyn announcements
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Creating a support ticket
- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: Billing > Azure Cost Management
- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: Billing > Cloudyn Legacy
If you are unable to find answers using the Azure Cost Management documentation and you suspect the issue may be due to a service disruption or bug, you can open an online support ticket. You should open each support ticket for only a single problem, so that each reported issue can routed accordingly.
To open a support ticket
- Sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com)
- On the left navigation menu select Help + Support
- From the Help + support menu, select New support request
- On the Basics blade, for Issue type, select Billing
- For Subscription, choose any of the listed subscriptions. The subscription chosen isn’t used for routing of the issue.
- For Service, select the Billing option, and then choose either Azure Cost Management or Cloudyn Legacy from the list
- Under Support plan, choose your support current Azure Support Plan, and then click Next
- On Problems, select a Severity
- Select a Problem type, and then select a Category for that type
- Enter a descriptive Title for the incident, and input additional information in the Details dialog
- Choose an
approximate date and time for When
did the problem start, and click Next
- On Contact information, select your preferred contact method and provide your contact information and then select Create
Once the support ticket is created, it will be added to the support queue and response time will vary based on the Support Plan and Severity (e.g. business impact) of the issue.
For more information see: Support scope and responsiveness
To check status of an Incident you have filed, see: Manage support requests
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Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn provides detailed visibility into Azure consumption, cost and performance.
Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn is now available for free to customers and partners managing Azure spend!
Azure customers can use their Azure subscription to register with "Azure Cost Management" by Cloudyn to access the Cloudyn portal.
(For more details, please see the following Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn documentation.)
"Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn" Documentation and Resources can be found at:
- Azure Cost Management Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview-cost-mgt
- Cloudyn Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview
- Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cost-management
- Trial: https://trial.cloudyn.com/
- Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=Cloudyn
- Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/use-azure-cost-management-for-free/
- Videos: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/ref-videos
- Feedback: http://aka.ms/costmgmt/feedback
"Cloudyn" Documentation and Resources can be found at:
- Website: https://www.cloudyn.com/
- Documentation: https://support.cloudyn.com/hc/en-us/
You can open "Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn" service requests from:- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: All Services > Monitoring & Management > Cloudyn
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C Standards, Extensions, and Interop announcements
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Link
There are a couple new (and exciting!) extensions available in the Visual Studio gallery:
- PGO Plug-In. This tool improves the user experience for PGO in Visual Studio 2013 by providing a guided experience through the various phases of the PGO process. It also introduces the ability to perform PGO for Windows Store applications targeting x86 and x64 applications and more!
- PdbProject Extension.This extension will allow Visual Studio 2012 to open and convert pdb into a vcxproj. The converted project will load as a normal VC project and provide IDE features such as tag browsing, intelli-sense and object browsing.
While there, check out the many other extensions available for Visual Studio and be sure to leave your feedback!
Thanks!
-Eric (ebattali@microsoft.com)
Claims based access platform (CBA), code-named Geneva announcements
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Link
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.
ClickOnce and Setup announcements
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Link
Hi,
I've posted a new blog entry about ClickOnce and Windows 8 and the Smart Screen filter. I collaborated with someone at Microsoft to create this; I hope it's helpful.
http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/windows-8-and-clickonce-the-definitive-answer-2/
-
Link
In Visual Studio 2010, we have partnered with Flexera, makers of InstallShield, to create InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 just for Visual Studio 2010 customers. The InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 offers comparable functionality to the Visual Studio Installer projects. In addition, you can build your deployment projects using Team Foundation Server and MSBuild. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deployment_technologies/archive/2010/04/20/installshield-limited-edition-is-available-for-download-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx.
With InstallShield available, the Visual Studio Installer project types will not be available in future versions of Visual Studio. To preserve existing customer investments in Visual Studio Installer projects, Microsoft will continue to support the Visual Studio Installer projects feature that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 and below as per our product life-cycle strategy. For more information, see Expanded Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy for Business & Development Products.
-
Link
The InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition is a free version of InstallShield for Visual Studio developers that replaces the functionality provided by the Visual Studio setup and deployment projects.
Here are some highlights of the product:
• Use Visual Studio to create installation projects for applications built with Visual Studio.
• Build your installation projects with MSBuild
• Jumpstart projects with a simple design environment and Project Assistant.
• Take advantage of Installation Prerequisites and Custom Actions.
• Digitally sign your installers.
Need a feature that is not supported in the Visual Studio deployment projects? Try the InstallShield Limited Edition. You can easily migrate your existing Visual Studio deployment projects into InstallShield Limited Edition installation projects with a few clicks. The installation projects created with the InstallShield Limited Edition are compatible with other versions of InstallShield products. This enables you to upgrade to higher version of InstallShield with a more advanced feature set.
To obtain the InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition, complete the following steps:
1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
2. Expand the Other Project Types node.
3. Expand the Setup and Deployment node.
4. Click InstallShield LE.
5. Click Enable InstallShield Limited Edition, and then click OK.
6. Click Go to InstallShield.
Note: You must register by using your email address before downloading the product.
Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements
-
Link
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:
-
Link
You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
-
Link
As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you'
re logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
-
Link
The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
-
Link
Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
-
Link
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
Code Contracts announcements
-
Link
This forum is now closed. Thank you all for your participation.
Regards,
MSDN Forums team
-
Link
We just released the CodeContracts tools as Open Source on
https://github.com/CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts
We accept contribution!!!
The CodeContracts team
-
Link
We just released the CodeContracts tools as Open Source on
https://github.com/CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts
We accept contribution!!!
The CodeContracts team
-
Link
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
-
Link
New checks, improved performances for the static checker
Get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1ec7db13-3363-46c9-851f-1ce455f66970
-
Link
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/
-
Link
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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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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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.
Cognitive Services announcements
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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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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)
Cost Management - Cloudyn announcements
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Creating a support ticket
- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: Billing > Azure Cost Management
- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: Billing > Cloudyn Legacy
If you are unable to find answers using the Azure Cost Management documentation and you suspect the issue may be due to a service disruption or bug, you can open an online support ticket. You should open each support ticket for only a single problem, so that each reported issue can routed accordingly.
To open a support ticket
- Sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com)
- On the left navigation menu select Help + Support
- From the Help + support menu, select New support request
- On the Basics blade, for Issue type, select Billing
- For Subscription, choose any of the listed subscriptions. The subscription chosen isn’t used for routing of the issue.
- For Service, select the Billing option, and then choose either Azure Cost Management or Cloudyn Legacy from the list
- Under Support plan, choose your support current Azure Support Plan, and then click Next
- On Problems, select a Severity
- Select a Problem type, and then select a Category for that type
- Enter a descriptive Title for the incident, and input additional information in the Details dialog
- Choose an
approximate date and time for When
did the problem start, and click Next
- On Contact information, select your preferred contact method and provide your contact information and then select Create
Once the support ticket is created, it will be added to the support queue and response time will vary based on the Support Plan and Severity (e.g. business impact) of the issue.
For more information see: Support scope and responsiveness
To check status of an Incident you have filed, see: Manage support requests
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Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn provides detailed visibility into Azure consumption, cost and performance.
Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn is now available for free to customers and partners managing Azure spend!
Azure customers can use their Azure subscription to register with "Azure Cost Management" by Cloudyn to access the Cloudyn portal.
(For more details, please see the following Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn documentation.)
"Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn" Documentation and Resources can be found at:
- Azure Cost Management Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview-cost-mgt
- Cloudyn Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/overview
- Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cost-management
- Trial: https://trial.cloudyn.com/
- Forum: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=Cloudyn
- Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/use-azure-cost-management-for-free/
- Videos: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/ref-videos
- Feedback: http://aka.ms/costmgmt/feedback
"Cloudyn" Documentation and Resources can be found at:
- Website: https://www.cloudyn.com/
- Documentation: https://support.cloudyn.com/hc/en-us/
You can open "Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn" service requests from:- Azure Portal > Help + Support > New Support Request > Service: All Services > Monitoring & Management > Cloudyn
