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News Feeds Welcome to the Microsoft Forums Moderators Toolset Homepage! The Microsoft Forums Moderators Toolset is a community-based application that offers an advanced toolset for moderators of the Microsoft Forums to make moderators more efficient and productive. The Microsoft Forums Moderators Toolset's goal is to offer the following pieces of high-level functionality: Advanced Search of the Forums Community Tagging Question Assignment Bookmarking Off-topic Post Labeling Auto-text entry and posting to the forums Anything else you want to add... Project Status: Private Beta PLEASE READ IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE FORUMEXPLORER TOOL This project currently has a beta released that is closed to only MSDN Forum moderators for most functionality. If you are a forum moderator, you can download the current release here. For the secret phrase to register with a msmoderators.com account, please read this forums post (you'll need to be signed into the MSDN Forums as a moderator to read the post): http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=832076&SiteID=1 If you are not a moderator, you can still download the Forums MSN Search Constructor Tool here. Screenshots ForumExplorer Beta 1 Forums MSN Search Constructor Tool 1.1 Want to Join the Development Community? Interested in joining this project? We'd love to have your help! Here are some requirements for contributing to this project: You must be an active moderator on the Microsoft Forums (the forums hosted at http://forums.microsoft.com.) You must have (at a minimum) Visual C# 2005 Express Edition installed. Other versions of Visual Studio 2005 are also fine. You need to install (the freely downloadable) Team Explorer to connect to the CodePlex Team Foundation Server: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/a/d/2ad44873-8ccb-4a1b-9c0d-23224b3ba34c/VSTFClient.img You should request to be added to the project by posting in the "Discussions" tab above. Be sure to include your display name on the forums so we know who you are! The Developer Guide for how to develop with this project is available here: Developer Guide Project Documents Developer Guide High Level Requirements Possible UI Designs for the Moderators Toolset Microsoft Forums MSN Search Constructor Tool Current Version: 1.1 There is a release and source code available for the Microsoft Forums MSN Search Constructor tool, a small tool that allows any user to construct complex queries against the Microsoft Forums using the metadata around questions, such as question status, forum, answerer name, or helpful rating. Check out the "Releases" tab to download the latest binaries. A huge thank you to Peter Ritchie http://www.peterRitchie.com, who helped refine the forums search tool! Requirements To use the Microsoft Forums MSN Search Constructor Tool, you will need the .NET Framework 2.0 installed on your machine running Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, or Vista. The .NET Framework can be downloaded here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx Test Files
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Comments BhanuPrakash wrote Aug 14 2006 at 5:46 PM Please go through Joe Morel's comments on some of my questions regarding this requirements doc. I have gone through the Toolset specs doc. I have some of the questions on the Toolset app and spec. 1.Does Toolset application has a separate database? Or will it use answerme database replication database on extranet wherein every 8hrs the extranet Db will be updated by a scheduled job? [Joe] It will use it’s own database, and web services for the forums. 2.Are the users of Toolset different from forum users? It will only be for forum moderators. What if an internal MS employee want to use the Toolset? [Joe] No problem—they should be forum moderators as well. 3.How do we differentiate internal MS employee with community moderator? [Joe] We won’t. I guess based on the userID or some distinct id, the Toolset application should be able to connect to respective db’s and authenticate them. Maybe—I’m not sure yet. I’m looking into using Passport authentication. 4.Do the moderators have to sign-up somewhere to use Toolset app? [Joe] Maybe, if I can’t figure out how to use Passport. 5.Do we maintain both MS internal employee info and community info in Toolset db or different? [Joe] We don’t keep them separate—“all people are equal” type thinking here. 6.From the document, I feel that IE toolbar GUI has been postponed. So, what kind of UI that we are planning to have? Will there be buttons on IE? [Joe] I’m really not sure about this. I’ve been thinking about a WinForms application that embeds IE. 7.Or can we have something like client app which can be plugged into any MS application like MSN Messenger/ IE/ Outlook/ VS 2005 or for that matter, any MS product. [Joe] Same as above. 8.If we look into Priority 1 issues, how do we integrate knowledge Navigator with Toolset app? Are we using knowledge Navigator what Renee has developed? [Joe] Right now, I’m just thinking about a button that launches Knowledge Navigator and having the KN application running off of our backend SQL DBs. neufert wrote Jul 3 2007 at 10:51 PM Hi, I'm an active moderator of the Brazillian MSDN Forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN-BR) and want to be part of the dev team of the toolbar, can I join or it`s restricted to US forums admins? Also, I cant get the secret phrase to install the toolbar because the post is on a area restricted to US moderadors, how can I install the toolbar being an moderator of the brazilian forum? Thanks. Sign in to add a comment

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