Live Services Jumpstart training is now available. You can now access this at http://dev.live.com/training/ This resource has sets of trainings related to following sections: Live Services – an All-up Technical Overview Microsoft Online Identity – Part...

February 2009 update to Azure Services Training toolkit is available. You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en As pointed out by Jim and above link: The...

As you already noticed, Windows Live Tools – November 2008 CTP is available and introduces templates for Windows Azure . With this release, you can host web applications that utilize Windows Live Tools into Windows Azure. Windows Live Tools is compatible...

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is available for download. You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/   IE team has detailed information on their blog ( IEBlog ): Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available Upgrading...

Here are links for Windows Live Tools over last 3 week. Excerpts from few blogs are noted below. Andrej Tozon [August 4, 2008] : ”… Working with the control appears to be easy. It took me about 15 minutes [including Tools’ download+setup] to port the...

John O’Brien blogs about Server Side Clustering of pushpins using VE ASP.NET Map Control. You can read details here: http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2008/08/10/server-side-clustering-with-the-ve-asp-net-control.aspx . John explains about...

Andrej Tozon blogs about ASP.NET Map Control which was released recently. According to Andrej in his blog post, “Working with the control appears to be easy. It took me about 15 minutes [including Tools’ download+setup] to port the previous version to...

You can get Windows Live Tools from couple of places on Microsoft.com web site.   Microsoft.com’s Download Center Windows Live Tools is available at link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D7C6DF11-2283-4CAC-9723-172F5C33EFBB&displaylang...

Session List for Live Platform at PDC 2008 is out. You can view it at http://microsoftpdc.com The Sessions are listed below: Some background videos that might be helpful before heading to PDC. Programming the Mesh: Live Mesh Architecture: How Live Mesh...

John O' Brien blogs about Virtual earth Map Control on LiveSide.net . John gives a deep dive introduction with series of videos and a sample project using Map Control. To Quote John from his blog post, "Through a series of videos we take you through...

Dr. Neil posted a screencast showing how to use SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer . Dr. Neil explains how easy it is to embed Silverlight Streaming Videos into your web page using this control. This control is part of Windows Live Tools which you can download...

You already saw few blog posts and announcements regarding release of July 2008 CTP of Windows Live Tools. With this release, we have introduced ASP.NET Server Control for Virtual Earth (Map Control). Developers have been using JavaScript Control for...

If you have downloaded ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) recently (I.e. version 1.3.61025), you might face following issue and this post described a workaround to mitigate the issue. Issue: When you use SilverlightStreamingMedia control, you might hit...

Windows Live Developer Platform team has released its first CTP of Windows Live Tools. This release is available through connect download site Windows Live Dev Connect . Windows Live Tools provides four controls to help you build Web sites with windows...

Here's the community technology preview (CTP) of work in progress forums offering . You might have already seen two flavors of forums - flavor 1 and flavor 2 . The current deployment is bit different approach in UI, so would like to hear your feedback...

Let me introduce myself to the world of blogging. I am Test Lead for a team resposible for managing Microsoft.com. Microsoft.com group has MSDN and TechNet offerings - both online and DVD formats. My team's charter is to improve online experience for...