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Code using Live Search APIs and win $10k

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 1:44 PM by James Senior
The Live Search team have just launched a cool competition in partnership with the Gnomedex conference where developers can win $10,000 and other cash prizes that have in impact on the economy or earth’s ecology.  The only caveat is that submitted Read More...
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Client or the Cloud?

Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 12:47 PM by James Senior
Paisano writes a punchy post about the death of desktop apps that I commented on and I wanted to share a bit more insight into where we’re taking the concept of Mesh in order to solve some of the problems that he identified. Whilst the browser is great Read More...
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Announcing the Live Framework Explorer for Visual Studio

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:02 PM by James Senior
At PDC back in October we launched the Live Framework into CTP and with that we provided a cool tool called the Live Framework Resource Model Browser which you could use to explore the data that you stored in the Mesh.  The tool was good but limited.  Read More...
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Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit

Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:34 PM by James Senior
Just announced this at Mix09. Here’s what you need to know.  Here’s where you need to go for more information: http://dev.live.com/messenger Read More...
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Live Messenger: our network is your network

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:49 PM by James Senior
I was doing some background reading on Live Messenger today via Wikipedia and it said that the first version of messenger (then MSN Messenger) came out in 1999! wow that seems so long ago, and look how much has changed since then! Above – Messenger then Read More...
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Live Services Jumpstart Training Videos

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 5:27 PM by James Senior
Couldn’t make it to the Live Services Jumpstart training earlier this year?  Don’t fret, we’ve just published the recordings from these sessions on the Live Services Developer Portal. Go download, learn, enjoy and create wonderful things: http://dev.live.com/trainin Read More...
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Live Services How Do I Videos

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:49 PM by James Senior
Now in embedded flavor right here on the blog, enjoy: If you can see this, your browser doesn't understand IFRAME If you can see this, your browser doesn't understand IFRAME Read More...
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Azure Services “How Do I” Videos

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:41 PM by James Senior
Get your head around the Azure Services Platform in the videos we’ve just released on MSDN.  We’ve got Windows Azure courtesy of Dr Aiken , .NET Services courtesy of Sir Nigel Watling and Live Services on the scene thanks to myself and Angus Logan Read More...
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Azure Services Training Kit

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:43 AM by James Senior
Last week we released the Azure Services Platform Training Kit.  There’s content aplenty including Decks, Demos and Labs – so much goodness it’s almost untrue! Here’s the a la carte menu: The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set Read More...
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Mesh and the Imagine Cup

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:05 AM by James Senior
  This year Mesh is in the thick of the action with the Imagine Cup 2009!  This year the competition is in Egypt and we’re excited about the cool apps that students are going to build using the Live Framework and Mesh Services, Contacts and Read More...
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Running Mesh Beta Client at the same time as Live Framework CTP Client

Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 8:53 AM by James Senior
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 Read More...
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New Live Services sessions released for Mix09!

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:40 PM by James Senior
  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 Read More...
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Trouble logging into http://developer.mesh-ctp.com?

Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 1:55 PM by James Senior
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 Read More...
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Live Framework Walkthrough Guides

Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 4:36 PM by James Senior
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 Read More...
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Defining Azure and Ignoring Live Services at your peril

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:14 AM by James Senior
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 Read More...
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