What’s the status of CAT.NET?

While they haven't released the new version, the good news is you can still use the old Add-in for CAT.NET 1.1.1.9 in Visual Studio 2010. All that is required is editing the default AddIn file to tell it to support the new version.

The file is installed to: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins\Microsoft.ACESec.CATNet.AddIn. You can open it in a text editor and add a new node for <version>10.0</version>

After you edit the file, just restart Visual Studio and you should be all set.

If the AddIn file is not there, it should be in one of the locations specified in you VS Settings under Tools > Options > Environment > Add-ins / Macro Security.

Unfortunately it looks like the answer to my question is "In a perpetual state of limbo". Back in June there was a last minute design issue right before it was intended to be released.

In answer to my question on MSDN about the status I was told the same thing and that was now almost five months ago. There are a series of impatient follow-ups by the community on that thread and not a single word from Microsoft nor is there any update on the MSDN Security Tools page.

Don't hold your breath folks!

Here us the Forum - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/catnet/threads

Here is where they make comments on Dev and QA - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytools/

Here is where you download it - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=e0052bba-2d50-4214-b65b-37e5ef44f146&displaylang=en

That is the 64 bit version. I found it ran without throwing a 'Out of memory Exception' that i got from the 32 bit version, but only comes in cmd line form

The 32 bit version snaps into VS2008 but hasn't been made ready for integration into VS2010

Note: I've been trying to get the 2.0 Beta today and haven't had an luck, as you said the links are all broken and the email address for the team is bouncing.