- I want to rally renewed interest for our monthly customer webcasts. Some of our recent sessions resulted in issues with connectivity, we cancelled the webcast in September, and last month our promotion was buried somewhat in all the news about the release of the adCenter Fall Upgrade. Yet, we heard from customers that these are worthwhile opportunities for developers to talk with the product team members.

adCenter API developers may be interested in the new Live Search API beta released this week by Microsoft. It offers Live Search that Web publishers can incorporate into their own Web site with great customization, and a pilot program that will allow webmasters to incorporate advertisements seamlessly into their results pages. For advertisers, it's of interest in the potential for new ways ads may be distributed. For Web publishers and Web developers,

One of the new features in the Microsoft adCenter Fall Upgrade is that the EditorialStatus element of the Ad and Keyword data objects now gets populated with the specific object's editorial status. Previously those elements were not used. The EditorialStatus element is read-only, and its value is assigned by adCenter based on the result of the editorial review of the ad or keyword.

Hi Everyone, Two sessions for Microsoft Advertising were presented at PDC 2008 on October 27, 2008. These sessions are now available for public viewing. The two Microsoft Advertising sessions are: Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Lap Around Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Day in the Life of a Click See the links above for a description of each session as well as the recording. Thank you.

- The Microsoft adCenter Fall Upgrade is now available in the adCenter API Production environment. We've been listening to your feedback, requests, and ideas for new adCenter API features, and throughout this year we've made significant progress in several key areas. Now, the adCenter Fall Upgrade brings you even more. Microsoft adCenter API version 5.1 )V5.

- The Microsoft adCenter Fall Upgrade is now available in the adCenter API Production environment. We've been listening to your feedback, requests, and ideas for new adCenter API features, and throughout this year we've made significant progress in several key areas. Now, the adCenter Fall Upgrade brings you even more. Microsoft adCenter API version 5.1 )V5.

Attached are several XML reports containing sample data using Daily Aggregation and Customized Date Range. AdGroupPerformanceReport.xml AdPerformanceReport.xml CampaignPerformanceReport.xml KeywordPerformanceReport.xml They are contained in Reports.zip Enjoy!

This notice went out in an e-mail to API users today: Next week, the Microsoft adCenter API Production environment will undergo planned system maintenance, October 23 through October 26 in preparation for the adCenter Fall Upgrade . Although there will be no downtime, and your ads will continue to serve, there will be some delays to the editorial processing of ads and keywords. We recommend that you do not make any changes to your ad text or keywords during the maintenance.

This notice went out in an e-mail to API users today: Next week, the Microsoft adCenter API Production environment will undergo planned system maintenance, October 23 through October 26 in preparation for the adCenter Fall Upgrade . Although there will be no downtime, and your ads will continue to serve, there will be some delays to the editorial processing of ads and keywords. We recommend that you do not make any changes to your ad text or keywords during the maintenance.

Hello, If you're attending PDC 2008 and you're a user of the Microsoft adCenter API, the API documentation team will be available to get your feedback on the adCenter API documentation. Your documentation feedback is always welcome via the MSDN feedback link. If you happen to be at PDC, though, we'd be happy to meet with you. I and several other members of the developer content team will be attending the "Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Lap Around" session,

You may have noticed that the adCenter API forums are now using a new forum technology developed by the Microsoft team that publishes MSDN and TechNet. One of the new features is a better, more obvious way to format code within the post editor. This may help eliminate some of the issues we've had with Smilies appearing in code blocks in forum posts. Use the icon to add code to your post when writing in the new forum.

When building Version 5.1 adCenter API applications in Visual Studio 2005, you will want to use the wsdl.exe utility when creating the proxy files for those services that are of the .asmx type. These include: Administration â€" https://adcenterapi.microsoft.com/Api/Advertiser/v5.1/Administration/Administration.asmx CustomerManagement â€" https://adcenterapi.microsoft.com/Api/Advertiser/v5.1/CustomerManagement/CustomerManagement.

The reporting error codes are being posted here so that they can be updated more frequently than the adCenter API documentation. This is a duplicate of the error code list at Reporting Error Codes , although this list may often be more up-to-date than the list on MSDN. The following error codes can be returned by the QueueReport service operation. Error Code Description 2001 The report request is null. 2002 The report request type is not valid.

The campaign management error codes are being posted here so that they can be updated more frequently than the adCenter API documentation. This is a duplicate of the error code list at Campaign Management Error Codes , although this list may often be more up-to-date than the list on MSDN. The error codes in the following table apply to all campaign management APIs. Error Code Description 1001 The status cannot be changed by using an update service operation. Instead,

Notes from Sandy Jen's presentation. Sandy is a co-founder of m eebo defined as live communication for Web. For people who don't use it or know about it, it provides a Web page to use Instant Messengers like GTalk, Messenger, AIM, etc. A few of the things called out immediately were - what would work for someone else might not work for you. She seems against consultants since team who develops will always know the most about stuff. Defined sync vs. async.

I am attending the Web 2.0 Expo in New York this week and using the blog to share notes from sessions that may interest API users. Geir Magnusson Jr. - VP of Engineering at 10gen Inc . - presented on The Sequel to SQL: Why You Won't Find Your RDBMS in the Clouds . Notes from the session: The cloud has intrinsic capabilities different from what we now have for normal computing, and this will change how we approach software development even for normal problems.

Microsoft has added social bookmarking to MSDN, the flagship Web site for developers using Microsoft technology. You can now share any bookmarks of helpful posts or articles that you've found on adCenter API with other users on MSDN. For example, if you've found a particularly helpful code sample or topic in the documentation for adCenter API, you can highlight it by sharing a bookmark. If you've found a helpful article on another site, likewise, you can share it on MSDN.

If you follow the directions at Getting Started with the Microsoft adCenter API you may encounter the error 'OptionProcessingHelper threw an exception' when running svcutil.exe. You may resolve this issue by upgrading to .NET 3.0 SPI available here . Also, when using Visual Studio 2008, the use of svcutil.exe is not necessary.

Hello, Here are a few sample SOAP requests for some of the V5.1 CampaignManagement and Reporting Web service operations. Please provide feedback within this blog on the value and format of these samples. We'll use that information to determine how best to include SOAP samples in our MSDN documentation for Microsoft adCenter API . Thank you, and also thanks to my Microsoft colleague Strohm for providing the initial Reporting SOAP sample.

Hi everyone, I wanted to post a friendly reminder that the deadline is nearly upon us for the transition to Version 5.1 of the adCenter API. Version 4 will go off service after August 14th. Please use the community and our support resources, and our support resources for any questions you have in making the transition. We will continue the monthly series of Live Meeting webcasts, with our next session at 1 PM Pacific time on Tuesday, Aug. 19th.