For those of you who are busy developing applications for Mesh using Live Framework, you will be aware of the problem that until now you couldn’t run the Mesh Beta Client at the same time as the Live Framework CTP. Fortunately, we’ve put together a workaround that allows your to run both alongside one another…
Tag: Live Services
New Live Services sessions released for Mix09!
Dr Angus and I have been working hard on new sessions for Mix. Some of them have been published today over here: http://2009.visitmix.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx Make sure you register early and I’ll see you in Vegas! 🙂 Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Come learn how to extend your existing Web applications and get them to live and breathe…
Trouble logging into http://developer.mesh-ctp.com?
Running up to Christmas we dished out quite a few new Live Mesh Tokens to people who were waiting in the line. To sign up for a developer account (enabling you to code against Live Mesh and Live Framework) you needed to visit http://lx.azure.microsoft.com (The Azure Services Developer Portal) and redeem your tokens. If at…
Live Framework Walkthrough Guides
This week I’ve been exploring more and more of the Live Framework and playing around with building some demos and samples. To help me out I’ve found the Live Framework Walkthrus really useful: Walkthrough Resource Model and Feeds Walkthrough MeshApp Walkthrough Extending the Resource Model Walkthrough DotNet Toolkit You can download them from here: http://dev.live.com/liveframework/liveframeworksdkwalkthroughs.zip…
Defining Azure and Ignoring Live Services at your peril
Windows Azure Steve found a rather honest and down to earth description of Windows Azure on The Register. I particularly liked their take on SQL Services (SQL Service that is managed for you by Microsoft): Giving you access to a straight-up hosted Microsoft SQL Server would be too useful, so in the Azure platform, you…
Microsoft Services Connector – from Active Directory to the Cloud, seamlessly
Dr Logan has posted about resources that will help you get your head around the Microsoft Services Connector which lets your business users connect using their active directory domain accounts with no fuss to services in the cloud that they can then consume, yum, yum. Key thing is – no extra logins. Enrich my learning…
Software + Services: Greater than the sum
Great new video on S+S and what the S+S vision is. Love how they dropped the “Mesh” word in right in the middle 🙂 I like the phrase “code into commerce” too… There’s another video gem on the site S+S site too (which has been revamped to mirror the Windows design) which is worth checking…
Live Services Jumpstart
Hop, skip and jump start into Live Services with these 2 day technical courses on how to build amazing consumer web applications and unlock the critical mass of users quickly to make your idea fizz. There are 11 locations around the world where we’ll be handing out the knowledge and knowhow so make sure…
Reflections on Ray
I arrived back in San Francisco last night after a great conference in Atlanta, and despite being a little drained (totally my own choice) I couldn’t help be excited by two particular keynotes I saw. Firstly Craig Mundie gave some insight into some of the advances we are making in Surface and showed how it…
Pro Photo Tools
Chris has details on the recently released Microsoft Pro Photo Tools that provide extra functionality beyond Windows Live Photo Gallery. The Microsoft Pro Photo Blog provides some more insight on what the tool can do: Microsoft has released the first version of Microsoft Pro Photo Tools with geotagging today. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a…