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skannan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:33:15 GMT

Project Description

A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

Announcement

At present this project is on hold while we explore an alternate NNTP Bridge solution that would allow users to use their existing NNTP client to read/post to forums using Forums Web service. Also note that the forums web service APIs have changed since the last release of this tool and hence the latest release would not work at present

I am glad to announce the release of July 08 CTP Refresh.

What are we doing here?

My team and I are undertaking an endeavour that has been highly requested for quite awhile. We will be creating a client side solution to work with the MSDN Forums. Several attempts have been made in the past to solve this problem with varying degrees of success. This time around we have the support of the forums team to make sure that a public API is available on the brand new forums platform.

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

You can find the detailed initial scope document here. In the scope document you'll find some more details about what kinds of things we want to do (and a couple we don't), a sample user scenario, and some information about our team.

What do I get out of this?

Well, if you are a frequent user of any of our forums sites and wish you had an offline option this is an excellent opportunity for you to drive the requirements so we don't build the wrong tool. If you are a developer wanting to try out some cool technologies like WPF, WCF, or maybe even LINQ if we need it, this would be a great sample app for you to learn from and also contribute to.

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Microsoft

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skannan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:31:28 GMT

Project Description

A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

Announcement

I am glad to announce the release of July 08 CTP Refresh.

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

skannan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:10:49 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

Project Plan Update 09/16/2008

Hi everyone, we wanted to shed some light on where we're at, and where we're heading. Originally we had planned to have an early September CTP that included the capability to write posts. Unfortunately that work has been pushed back a bit. Instead the next release you'll see from us will be a refresh to the July CTP that includes bug fixes and other features we've been working on.

We want to make sure that everyone who's been providing us with input and logging bugs gets a chance to see an update, which is why we're choosing to release another CTP without writes enabled. We expect that the write capabilities will come along in the next release after the CTP refresh.

July 08 CTP Features:

Read only offline client that supports

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

If you're interested in contributing to the project, whether its feedback or code, please contact us in the Discussions tab!

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

JeremyKelley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:08:10 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

Project Plan Update 09/16/2008

July 08 CTP Features:

Read only offline client that supports

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

If you're interested in contributing to the project, whether its feedback or code, please contact us in the Discussions tab!

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

mmanela — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:55:28 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

After many months of hard work we are proud to announce the availability of our first CTP of the Microsoft Forums Client. Much of the work for this CTP is in foundational code that will let us build the rest of the application, but we hope that this first preview will let you see what direction we're heading in, and also give you a chance to give us feedback!

July 08 CTP Features:

Read only offline client that supports

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

Upcoming Release Features

We'll be sharing more information soon about what will be coming in our next sprint worth of work, which should include our first "write" capabilities for the forums.

If you're interested in contributing to the project, whether its feedback or code, please contact us in the Discussions tab!

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

mmanela — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:38:55 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

mmanela — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:31:25 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

mmanela — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:30:57 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

skannan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:00:21 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

skannan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:59:07 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

Upcoming Release Features

We'll be sharing more information soon about what will be coming in our next sprint worth of work, which should include our first "write" capabilities for the forums.

If you're interested in contributing to the project, whether its feedback or code, please contact us in the Discussions tab!

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

skannan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:02:49 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP (Community Technology Preview) Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

We'll be sharing more information soon about what will be coming in our next sprint worth of work, which should include our first "write" capabilities for the forums.

If you're interested in contributing to the project, whether its feedback or code, please contact us in the Discussions tab!

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

Updated Wiki: Home

JeremyKelley — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:02:49 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

July 08 CTP Now available!

Getting the list of available forums
Subscribing to forums you're interested in
Manually (by right click menu) synchronizing the Question and General Discussion threads in a forum
Reading posts that have been synchronized
Hierarchical (threaded) view of conversations

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:56:59 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:37 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Okay you hooked me, I'm excited now, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:49:54 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Well, if you are a frequent user of any of our forums sites and wish you had an offline option this is an excellent opportunity for you to drive the requirements so we don't build the wrong tool.
If you are a developer wanting to try out some cool technologies like WPF, WCF, or maybe even LINQ if we need it, this would be a great sample app for you to learn from and also contribute to.

Okay you hooked me, I'm excited now, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:48:54 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Well, if you are a frequent user of any of our forums sites and wish you had an offline option this is an excellent opportunity for you to drive the requirements so we don't build the wrong tool.
If you are a developer wanting to try out some cool technologies like WPF, WCF, or maybe even LINQ if we need it, this would be a great sample app for you to learn from and also contribute to.

Okay you hooked me, I'm excited now, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong

Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.

Tell us what you would do

If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.

Put your code editor where your mouth is

Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:48:23 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

That doesn't really tell me much about your project...

What do I get out of this?

Well, if you are a frequent user of any of our forums sites and wish you had an offline option this is an excellent opportunity for you to drive the requirements so we don't build the wrong tool.
If you are a developer wanting to try out some cool technologies like WPF, WCF, or maybe even LINQ if we need it, this would be a great sample app for you to learn from and also contribute to.

Okay you hooked me, I'm excited now, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

Tell us what we're doing right or wrong

Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.

Tell us what you would do

If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.

Put your code editor where your mouth is

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:54:20 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

I'm excited how can I help?

Right now we're at the point where we think we have the right scope for the project. You can find the scope document here. We'll be adding work items and some discussion topics soon, so in the mean time feel free to give us your feedback in the Discussions tab and let us know if you think this is worth doing, and if so, what would make it useful to you.

-Jeremy Kelley
Program Manager
Developer Division Community Connection
Microsoft

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:52:56 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

I'm excited how can I help?

Right now we're at the point where we think we have the right scope for the project. You can find the scope document here

UPDATED WIKI: Home

JeremyKelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:49:39 GMT

Project Description
A project to create a client based application to interface with the new MSDN Forums platform.

What are we doing here?

I'm excited how can I help?

Right now we're at the point where we think we have the right scope for the project. You can find the scope document Cannot resolve link: [release:Friendly Text|_release id_]