Angus Logan's Blog

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!

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Tafiti Search visualization has had a major addition. Using the Windows Live Messenger Library and Script# we turned Tafiti from being a slick search UI to being a social search application. You can now perform searches, save your results and share that experience with your Windows Live Messenger friends. Research has never been so fun! try it | watch it | get it | coming soon business value video interview

Visit Planner (new Quick App) which is fictitious hotel providing a differentiated experience for their customers. Contoso Hotel guests can use this online concierge to plan their trip to multiple cities. The application consists of a Silverlight 1.1 canvas which integrates with Microsoft Virtual Earth, Windows Live Messenger, Live Search and the Windows Live Contacts control - try it | watch it | get it | coming soon business value video interview

Adventure Works Resorts has also had some renovations done – the Windows Live Photo API CTP is being used to provide its members with the ability to import photos from Windows Live Spaces and two-way sync . We use LiveNet for the development and in the near future we will integrate the Photo API CTP refresh.

We teamed up with the Windows Live team from China to fully localize Contoso ISV into Chinese – you can go to any page and see all the text in Chinese – not only text on the web site but the Windows Live controls are also localized automatically. There are instructions on how to setup your browser in the wiki.

Video.Show hit RTW along with a lot of documentation (check out its development site) so we can included it in this release (plus its a way cool site)

Contoso Bicycle Club - no major changes, however our friends in Canada are developing a very interesting spin off site.

Contoso University – no major enhancements