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Open Web Foundation agreement makes it easier to create and use specifications

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:27 AM by alogan
  This is pretty exciting news, check out the announcement (below) and read what David Rudin has to say about it . below are a few excerpts from the announcement post: The Open Web Foundation was founded to help developer communities collaborate Read More...
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Web Application Toolkit to make your website social

Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 2:40 PM by alogan
James Senior just told me about his pet project, the Web Application Toolkit for Making your Website Social . This Web Application Toolkit shows how, using a few lines of code with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, it is possible to add social capabilities Read More...
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Automating pre-registration for API/consumer keys

Posted Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:41 AM by alogan
There is a weird mix of pros and cons when it comes to requiring pre-registration of API keys ( where you go to a developer portal and identify yourself, agree to terms of service, etc ). Ever since Joseph Smarr and co. laid out the tangible dream of Read More...
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You asked for it - Windows Live Messenger Web Bar themes

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:21 AM by alogan
One of the pieces of feedback we got from the launch of the Web Bar was “ give me some pre-defined themes so I can make the end-user experience smooth ”. Steve Gordon the development lead on the Web Toolkit heard you and has posted a few basic themes Read More...
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Updated the Live Framework Tech Preview SDK

Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:31 AM by alogan
Over at the Live Framework blog Kevin has given details of the update for the tech preview. Version numbers for this release Live Framework Developer Sandbox : 0.9.3519.1 Live Framework Client: 0.9.3519.1 Live Framework SDK: 0.9.3519.1 and the key updates Read More...
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Get your Beta bits – and check out Photo Gallery programmability

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:48 AM by alogan
The teams just shipped some beta bits for Mail/Messenger/Photo Gallery/Movie Maker/Writer/Toolbar/Family Safety and Outlook Connector – whoa! ( check out liveside’s photo gallery post ) Lots of stuff. My favorite bit though, is a programmability scenario Read More...
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Silverlight Streaming WebDAV sample bits

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:07 AM by alogan
RemyP just posted a sample application (C#) for interacting with the Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service using the WebDAV API. You can leverage this code as you wish, edit it to suit your needs, or compile it "as is" and use it out-of-the-box. Read More...
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FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Names) - a few dev environment tips.

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:07 PM by alogan
Thanks to Nikhil Kothari for some dev tips this morning - below is a summary --- Lots of our services require a FQDN (i.e. a name with a "." in it) - such as the Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication service ; or the Windows Live Messenger Read More...
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Built for comfort (and speed) : Microsoft Virtual Earth with IntelliSense in VS 2008

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:51 PM by alogan
Marc Schweigert has enabled JavaScript IntelliSense with Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft Virtual Earth Map Control .   You can check out his post and screencast here . Way cool! 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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PowerShell Script to dump photos XML from Photo API

Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:59 AM by alogan
I just had a play with Powershell - pretty neat - I wrote a little script with dumps the XML of your spaces photos. Right now the terms of use for the Photo API/Contacts API only allow use from web sites but this is a cool little script for testing / Read More...
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Calling the Presence API from managed code - Animaonline Windows Live Presence Wrapper

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 3:50 PM by alogan
I was cruising Codeplex today and found this server-side (or client side... which isn't allowed by the Terms of Use) library for calling the Presence API . Pretty cool - although we would recommend calling the JSON end point via Script Sourcing ( <script Read More...
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Community Project LiveNet - .NET Wrapper for WL Services v0.2 released

Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:57 PM by alogan
Scott mentioned on his blog that v0.2 of LiveNet is released. Grab the release here . The big change is the Silverlight Streaming API is now wrapped . From Scott's blog : As part of the release, I have included a sample application that shows just how Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT for DEVELOPERS: New Quick App - Social Network up in the Codeplex project

Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:53 PM by alogan
I've uploaded the new Quick App originally developed by the Ed Kaim and the rest of the crew at SharpLogic (enhanced/butchered by me) to the Windows Live Platform Quick Applications codeplex project . This site is really big (internally we call it a Quick Read More...
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Windows Live ID authentication plug in for Community Server

Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 9:41 AM by alogan
The guys over at Liveside have implemented nbDevelopment's add in for Community Server for Windows Live ID . What does it do? It uses Windows Live ID Web Authentication as the authentication store for Community server . Here are some pictures from Liveside Read More...
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