What was lab.msdn.microsoft.com? - msdn

I've seen some links to lab.msdn.microsoft.com, but now all it does is give a standard ASP.Net error page.
What did the site use to have, and when did it go down?

I am not sure but is it Microsoft Research?

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Getting access to the Google Pay API for Passes

I am currently trying to get access to the Google Pay API for passes. I am following the official guide provided by Google: https://developers.google.com/pay/passes/guides/basic-setup/get-access-to-rest-api
Unfortunately I can't even follow the first step, as the sign up form for Google Merchant seems to be offline. The URL where I expect the form just forwards me to an FAQ page.
Has anyone had similar issues lately.
Any kind of help or information is appreciated! Thanks.
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Hard to say if we're seeing the same thing. This is what I see when visiting https://support.google.com/pay/merchants/gethelp?visit_id=1-636549173956235486-3194546471&rd=4
Is this what you see?
You need to go straight to step 2. Access the API Console.

Sharepoint top link bar visible true/false

All,
I have a default top link bar in sharepoint which we keep on adding/modifying.
We have a requirement as such that few links, we want to make visible true/false based on user permission.
Is it possible through sharepoint settings? or we need to handle it throuhg code?
we are using SP2010.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance
First make sure to enable the Publishing feature of your site. You can do this by following the steps here.
Once that is done you can use Security Trimming and Audience Targeting for your top link bar. Steps on how to do it can be found here. Please take note however that this may lead to performance issues once your SharePoint site grows. There are other suggestions in the linked site above on how to address these issues as well.

live sandbox containing multiple apis

I remember once seeing a site that contained all the popular apis and it displayed sample data when you fetched or inserted content via REST. I cant remember what site it was on so if anyone knows let me know thanks
You are probably looking for this.
This site is a directory to all API Services provided by companies.

Can I have SEO-friendly web pages with SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites?

I'm just starting out with SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites, but most of what I've seen both in the app and in example sites look like the format of the URL is pretty fixed.
For example, most reference sites that I've seen hav their home page as 'pages/default.aspx'. I'd like to have something like '/home'. Is that possible? If so, is it fairly simple to do or is it pretty involved? The reference sites I saw are very good looking sites. I'm surprised they have such ugly URls.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Check this post http://blog.mastykarz.nl/friendly-urls-sharepoint-site-4-steps-iis7-url-rewrite-module/
There is no OOTB features to do this. We also write custom HTTP modules for friendly URLS.
Sharepoint is generally pretty good for the url. 2010 has gotten a little better to. Create your top level sites e.g. Home | Products | Pricing. Then creating a site under any of these site will give you the url like yourdomain.com/Products/Pages/whatever-my-page-is-called.aspx

How to install Form Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010

I would like users to have the ability of signing in without being Windows users. This means, either using Form Based Authentication or a better option, which I'm now aware right now.
Could anybody tell me how to install FBA in Share Point 2010, or recommend me a good article about it?
I've read several articles about this, but almost all of them tell me to modify several web.config files, and I really don't like the idea of touching things without being sure of what I'm doing.
Note: I'm not using Active Directory...just in case.
EDIT:
I've followed this tutorial, but I still cannot sign in using FBA. Also, I've noticed I don't have any users on SQL-Auth database (it's explained in that tutorial). Is that normal, or automatic?
Thanks,
Brian
I read quite a few articles about FBA configuration and followed instruction provided by them. But it wasn't until I found Configuring Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2010 using IIS7 I finally managed to make FBA work - I highly recommend this article.
The users are not created automatically - you can create them:
using IIS Manager,
programmatically (Membership.CreateUser),
using the MembershipSeeder tool mentioned in the tutorial you linked in your question.
This one has lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations and might be helpful too.
http://kbochevski.blogspot.com/2011/01/setup-fba-for-sharepoint-2010-using-vs.html