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February 2008 - Posts

Windows Live Messenger Developer Blog(s)

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 8:35 AM by alogan
The geek boys and geek girls in the Messenger/Contacts engineering have created their own blog which is all messenger development , all of the time . It's only a couple of hours old, so there is only 1 post - but they assure me this is the place to go Read More...
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Late night

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 8:33 AM by alogan
I was working all night - last night - literally  - haven't slept yet - this morning I got a little silly and took a photo with my eye.fi card, it got automatically uploaded to spaces and downloaded to my photo frame in my office. Notice the use Read More...
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My personal presentation stash on the announcements today

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 1:30 AM by alogan
I've posted some of the decks Jason Kelly and I have been working on ( not fully baked but should be useful ): Windows Live Messenger Library Windows Live Contacts API Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication More to come in the very near future. ps. Read More...
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Quick Apps 6.0 are here - Social Search with Tafiti and Messenger | New Quick App | Lots of Enhancements

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 12:40 AM by alogan
The Windows Live Platform Quick Applications demo sites are making real progress. Between the 5.0 release and the 6.0 release we closed a lot of work items and added some great features – all in 178 work items! --- Tafiti Search visualization has Read More...
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PowerPoint - how do you get nice transparent images

Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 1:57 PM by alogan
I do a lot of PowerPoint... way too much. I can manipulate images well before the hit PowerPoint but as soon as you drop them in sometimes the template colors conflict etc. (you may not notice the first template you use but if you reuse slides on many Read More...
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Coding in PowerPoint - how to get syntax highlighted code into PowerPoint slides + a hint at future bits

Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 12:12 PM by alogan
I hate seeing code/xml/ any type of markup without highlighting - its nasty and if I wanted to notepad I would. Unfortunately, copying and pasting straight from Visual Studio into PowerPoint doesn't presence all the formatting. Well here is the procedure Read More...
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have I told you about the all knowing guru, Sahil Malik?

Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:07 PM by alogan
I was just trying to get my l33t coding skillz on prepping a MIX08 demo and I needed to do some drag and drop stuff; whilst hacking around the web at code from 1999 which drags layers i hit Sahil ( MVP rockstar I sharepoint work with - and went to Bulgaria Read More...
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I miss home

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:24 PM by alogan
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WL Platform guru on Channel 9

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 7:34 AM by alogan
Ed Kaim ( Sharplogic ) and his team are gurus on the WL Platform ... they have built lots of great stuff for us. He guest hosted the This Week on Channel 9 . I wish this was filmed a week later as he could have talked about all the secret stuff he's done Read More...
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DataPortability video

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 12:18 PM by alogan
Should be available in the near future - Inder Sethi - the dev manager for our social store (live contacts / messenger server) talks about why DataPortability is important to him. Read More...
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MIX08 - the full Windows Live Plan - disclosure baby!

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 11:28 AM by alogan
All the details you ever needed to know about MIX08 from a Windows Live point of view. Read More...
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Huge Skydrive (5GB), Huge Availability (38 Countries!)

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 4:36 AM by alogan
From the Skydrive blog : You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are. Today we're giving you both. You now have five times the space you had before — that’s 5GB of free online Read More...
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Why do I turn into a home-boy during demo IM conversations?

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 3:35 AM by alogan
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Free dev & design software for students

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:07 AM by alogan
There has been a bit of news today about the BillG announcement on Channel8 to give away free software for students . Get more information at the DreamSpark site . What can you do with these dev tools? Download the Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Read More...
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LINQ to FLICKR - this is cool

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 5:49 AM by alogan
Up on CodePlex there is a LINQ provider for FlickR . There is some reference doc here but the code basically looks like: FlickrContext context = new FlickrContext(); var query = from ph in context.Photos                    Read More...
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Presentation Tip - Zoom In real close for their pleasure.

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 5:08 AM by alogan
This week has been fun ( I felt like I was a Technology Specialist again - every day present, present, present! ): Monday in Silicon Valley for the Office Developer Conference presenting Windows Live services combined with SharePoint Products & Technologies. Read More...
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Sexy UX for Windows Live ID login screen - the different types and random thoughts.

Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:33 AM by alogan
If I use Windows Live ID on my web site, why can't I have my users enter their credentials on thirdparty.com instead of your login.live.com site? We (Microsoft) are hardcore about security and end user privacy. By allowing users to enter their Windows Read More...
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Are you a student? Want to compete for $10k and a trip to France? Imagine Cup Software Design Windows Live Award

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 12:41 PM by alogan
I've been with our great academic team to launch the Imagine Cup Software Design Windows Live Award . Basically - its a software dev competition for students to build compelling applications using the Windows Live Platform . This isn't the first of its Read More...
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ADO.NET Data Services and AtomPub

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 11:48 AM by alogan
Pablo (from the Astoria team ) blogged about their investigation into AtomPub and ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria). I picked this up because they have called out Windows Live as one possibility. From our (Microsoft) perspective , you could imagine Read More...
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I can't help myself

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:59 PM by alogan
It is really bad form to blog about stuff which isn't released yet (and has 0 disclosure yet) but... There is a really exciting API we will be releasing sometime in the near future... the API enables some great scenarios. A couple of Microsoft partners Read More...
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cool use of Windows Live Messenger IM Control on Microsoft.com by the Netherlands team

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 2:22 PM by alogan
For some reason everyone in the Netherlands are crazy about Messenger/Agents/add-ons etc. the MSFT team publishes their presence on Microsoft.com way cool - check it out here . Read More...
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SharePoint Picture Lists being in sync with Windows Live Spaces Photos

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 2:09 PM by alogan
Its been an interesting experience coming back to my old stomping ground of SharePoint development for the Office DevCon. Here is what i've got working in one of the demos i'll be doing: - Event handler on a picture list; - User has a web part which takes Read More...
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Welcome ScottIsAFool to Live Platform MVPness

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 7:02 AM by alogan
ScottIsARockStar! also at liveside Read More...
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MIX08

Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 4:10 PM by alogan
I'm really excited about MIX08! The Windows Live Platform team will be putting on a big show in Vegas - we have been crazy busy making sure we have great presence. We may even be announcing some new APIs ;) ScottGu just blogged more details about MIX Read More...
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My boss is so Web 2.0

Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 6:21 AM by alogan
He's even on twitter Read More...
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Demo for Office Dev Con - SharePoint & Windows Live ID

Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 4:06 AM by alogan
  I'm thinking about showing the Windows Live ID Authentication which is part of the CKS . Read More...
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