Visual Studio Report Controls announcements

Windows Performance Toolkit announcements

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    Windows Performance Analysis using WPT Kit video session on the WinHEC 2008 DVD
    Michael Milirud
    FYI, the WinHEC 2008 DVD is now available for purchase at
    http://shop.ecompanystore.com/mseventdvd/MSD_productdetail.asp?EventID=70882&TYPE=WinHEC%202008     (down to just $79 from the standard price of $495!).

    There is a very good session on how to use XPerf on this DVD called Windows Performance Analysis: Using Windows Performance Tools [WinHEC 2008; 5.3 MB]. Slides are available to download for free at the above hyper link.

    Keep on tracing,
    Michael

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    Please keep your posts specific to performance analysis
    Michael Milirud
    Please keep your posts specific to performance analysis. All unrelated posts will be moved to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/threads, without warning. Repeated off-topic posts will be reported as abuse of this forum. Please use your favorite search engine to find the right forum for your question. If your question isn't about Windows performance, then you shouldn't post here.

    Let's build a performance analysis community here :)

    Cheers,
    Michael
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    Welcome to the Windows Performance Toolkit forum!
    Michael Milirud
    Welcome to the Windows Performance Toolkit forum!

    As part of Microsoft's initiative to help its partners and customers improve the performance of their Windows systems, Windows group has released in Feb'08 the Windows Performance Toolkit. Version 4.1 of this toolkit has shipped in the Windows Server 2008 SDK and subsequent v.4.1.1 update has been made available on WHDC at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/perftools.mspx.

    This toolkit isn't for everyone - to use it effectively, you need to have a grasp of the basic OS internals such as processes, threads, DPCs (deferred procedure calls), ISRs (interrupt service routines), I/O subsystem, registry, etc. Yet one need not be a system developer to use it either. First level triage (e.g. which component is responsible for system slowdown?, is it a CPU or a disk usage issue?, etc.) can often be done with only the basic understanding of the above mentioned concepts, something people usually cover in an introductory 101 OS course. An expert in that area, can then use the same toolkit to dig deeper into the issue, root-cause it, and work on providing a fix for it. A great reference for understanding OS Internals is the Microsoft Windows Internals (4th edition) book from Mark Russinovich and David Solomon. We highly recommend you get a copy if you plan on using this toolkit routinely.

    You can use this forum to ask questions about the toolkit, as well as share tips and tricks with other users on how you've used it successfully in the past. We are hoping that this forum will help build a vibrant environment of performance analyst hobbists and professionals alike, where you can find support from both the Microsoft team shipping these tools to you as well as the MVPs using it on a daily basis.

    The toolkit comes with MSDN documentation available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139734.aspx. We recommend you consult it before asking questions on this forum. We would also like to hear feedback from you on our documentation - what are we missing, is something incorrect in the documentation, etc. You can provide it by sending email to [email protected].

    Happy tracing!
    -WPT Team

Microsoft Atlas APIs: Development announcements

Surface Application Design and Development announcements

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    New Microsoft Surface controls available from Infragistics
    AdamW - Surface Microsoft employee

    Infragistics*, a Microsoft Surface partner, has developed and released a set of controls that it has released to the Microsoft Surface community of partners and customers. These controls are optimized to run on Microsoft Surface and help create engaging multitouch applications. They include the following:

    • The xamSurfaceMap control allowss users to rotate, zoom, and pan the map using contact-hand gestures. It also allows the end user to select and drag elements from the map.
    • The xamSurfaceChart control is a 2-D and 3-D chart control which supports more than 50 variations of charts.
    • The xamSurfaceCarouselPanel, xamSurfaceCarouselListBox, xamSurfaceDataCarousel controls include read-only grid views of data along a carousel path and carousel scrolling.

    You can find these controls and more information about them on the Infragistics Web site.

    *Infragistics is providing these controls at no cost to Microsoft Surface customers and is responsible for any support of these controls. Microsoft is not responsible for these controls, and is providing a link to this resource for the benefit of the Microsoft Surface community. Downloading and using these controls is at your own risk.

HealthVault Developer announcements

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) announcements

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    Workaround for MSF-Agile+SDL v5.0 install error
    SDL Team

    Announcement originially posted Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:59 PM

    Hi everyone,

    We've talked with some people experiencing problems when trying to install the MSF-Agile+SDL v5.0 process template. We believe these problems are a result of an incompatibility with certain configurations of Sharepoint, and we are working to correct the issue for the next release of the MSF-Agile+SDL template. In the meantime, you should be able to work around the problem by following these instructions to disable the Sharepoint features of the template:

    1. Uninstall the template if you've already installed it.
    2. Reinstall the template files, and uncheck the Additional Sharepoint Components feature during the installation process.
    3. Using your XML editor of choice, open the file <template install dir>\Process Template\Windows SharePoint Services\wsstasks.xml.
    4. Near the bottom of the file, you will see the lines:

    <!--TfsDashboardSDLAgile -->

    <feature featureId="3F6F501A-5DFF-4359-8ED8-232784DFF47E" />

    5. Comment out the second line, ie:

    <!--TfsDashboardSDLAgile -->

    <!-- <feature featureId="3F6F501A-5DFF-4359-8ED8-232784DFF47E" /> -->

    6. Save the file and close

    7. Open the Process Template Manager in Visual Studio

    8. Delete the existing "MSF for Agile Software Development plus Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) v5.0" process template.

    9. Upload the process template again, browse for <template install dir>\Process Template\process template.xml.

    10. Close the Process Template Manager.

    You should now be able to create MSF-A+SDL projects. If you're experiencing the install bug, please let us know if this helps workaround the problem (or if it doesn't).

    Thanks,

    Bryan

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    Announcing the templates for SDL Practices
    SDL Team

    Download the templates for SDL practices, a library of templates to help you get started with the more thought-based SDL practices or activities: Defining Security Requirements, Creating a Security Bug Bar, Performing a Security Risk Assessment, Conducting a basic threat model, Managing SDL Exception Requests, Performing a Final Security Review.

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    Tools updates: SDL Threat Modeling Tool, MiniFuzz File Fuzzer, SDL Regex Fuzzer
    SDL Team

    The SDL team has recently announced updated versions of three SDL tools:

    SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3.1.8

    MiniFuzz File Fuzzer v1.5.5

    SDL Regex Fuzzer v1.1.0

    Check them out and feel free to provide comments and feedback.

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    Announcing SDL Process Guidance Version 5.2
    SDL Team

    The annual update to the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Process Guidance has been released. Version 5.2 is now available for download (.docx format) as well as online in the MSDN Library.

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    Follow @MSFTsdl on Twitter
    SDL Team
    Follow @MSFTsdl on Twitter to stay informed about the latest news, events and releases of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.

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