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
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!
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There is a free hosting offer form Verio on the codeplex page. Is it some kind of a scam? They require to point domain to their DNS server, providing just one (while two is required) with invalid TLD. And they hang up when you call them.
Hi Angus,
There are some nice examples there.
I am interested in the Windows Live Id login in the retail example - but it doesn't seem to be wired up in the code in codeplex.
In particluar, the example shows a login form where the username and password is captured in a Silverlight form - is this a supported scenario? I would have thought with webauth that you would need to redirect to login.live.com and that the only info you have is the UUID that is returned?
I only ask because it is a scenario we are looking at for a project now...
Cheers
Ian
ian
o3APA3a - Verio were offering hosting for ASP.NET web sites for free - strange you had a bad experience.
I'll take down the link just incase.
Ian - the forms based auth is for existing accounts;
i've requested that the forms be removed as it looks a little confusing.
as for the auth - i've passed this onto one of our dev's to check out.
There are four new Quick Applications - Retail, Team Builder, Field Manager, and Contoso Riders - all
Just happened to try some of the demo apps.. and most of they appear to be crashing or not working properly!! The teambuilder demo link (http://teambuilder.mslivelabs.com) gives a "server error in application" while tahifi goes blank when open in tree mode !!
Can someone repost these as Silverlight 3? or something that compiles with current release of Silverlight RTM?