Friday, July 25, 2008 6:28 AM
by
alogan
ANNOUNCEMENT: More Quick Apps launched + the great wall of videos
The team behind the creation of our demo applications, Windows Live Platform Quick Applications has been going super hard to get some more apps out the door.
What are the Quick Apps? They are end to end demo applications which can be used a demos, technical reference, starting points or for community development (open source license)
We've added more applications: Retail, Contoso Riders, Team Builder and Field Manager and made lots of enhancements to the others.
Retail is one of the slickest user experiences we’ve created, it uses Silverlight 2 to deliver a wall of videos, check out the demo.
These apps are typically developed by Microsoft Partners or customers (and occasionally inhouse). Below is a video the guys from the Habanero Consulting Group in Canada - they are all crazy mountain biking enthusiasts and built Contoso Riders.
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The Quick Apps have 3 purposes
- Examples of what is possible – use them, play with them, get ideas!
- Technical reference – if you want to use a Live Platform API, there is a good chance it will be in a Quick App, check out the code to see how it was implemented.
- Starting point – these end-to-end applications are licensed under a fairly liberal (OSI approved) license, you can use them as starting points for your own applications.
Developers - All of these applications are available for community development, you can sign into Codeplex, become a developer on the project and hack away!
If you have ideas or find bugs, please log them and we’ll triage and hopefully implement.
Success Story - I got an email from the people at http://www.myconditioningcoach.com/ who took one of the apps, customized it and implemented it, now they have a rocking site!
