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MSN's The Podium 08 - Built On Silverlight

MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium '08 brings together data on presidential candidates for voters and election followers to explore by topic and compare candidates head to head on specific Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 4:54 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

Windows Live SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Folders) is now in beta, enabling end users to store arbitrary data on the web under password access control. Files can be accessed over http(s) from web pages and from stand-alone client applications (thanks to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:58 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

New In The Windows Live Contacts Control: Incremental Search!

Another month, another release! This month we've added incremental search to the contacts and presence controls to make it easier to find a particular contact in your haystack of hundreds of family, friends, and coworkers. Just type in a few letters of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:01 PM by dthorpe | 6 Comments

Custom Colors in the Windows Live Web Controls

The Windows Live Web Controls now support custom colors! The Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control now accept additional parameters to specify the text and background colors of the inner and outer regions of the controls Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:26 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Secure Cross-Domain Communication: The Architecture Journal

The June issue (Journal 12) of The Architecture Journal focuses on web architecture. I was delighted to be invited to contribute, and wrote "Secure Cross-Domain Communication in the Browser" for this issue. In the article I describe a somewhat bizarre Read More...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 3:53 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

New Domains for Windows Live Web Controls

Our little web controls are growing up so fast! We've migrated the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control to new servers in the Microsoft datacenters and a new domain name: controls.services.live.com . The web controls will Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:42 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

A Cross-Domain Silverlight Channel 9 VideoRSS Player

Last week Kevin Ledley, keeper of the dev.live.com content, asked me for a bit of help to get a Silverlight video player working. He wanted to "borrow" the cool scrolling video list and video player from our sister site, msdn2.microsoft.com and set it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:26 AM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

HTML Namespace Attributes and IE document.namespaces

A few posts ago I promised to elaborate on a little gotcha that bit us in the butt while prepping the "blocks" to enable Popfly apps to use the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control . Here it is: IE has a handy document.namespaces Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:27 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

More: Avoiding Popup Windows in Your Web Apps

Scott Isaacs shares some additional "best practices" points on dealing with popup windows and popup blockers: Always program window.open() very defensively... Always try catch any calls to window.open() and if you are retaining a reference to the window Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:10 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Avoiding Popup Blockers in Your Web Apps

Tim Heuer laments the growing number of otherwise reputable web sites that instruct their flocks to disable popup blockers in order to complete some task within that web site. Having stumbled into popup blocker hell myself only a few months ago with the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:51 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

Hello World with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming

I've been tinkering with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming and thought I'd share some of my discoveries and pointers. Silverlight is designed to dovetail into a traditional HTML+JavaScript web app. Your web page loads a Silverlight.js file and constructs Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:46 PM by dthorpe | 22 Comments

MIX07: POST/GET/PUT/DELETE Your Way To Windows Live Data

Martin Heller posted an article on Infoworld, " Data Wants To Be Free ," about the Windows Live Data "secret session" at MIX07. The Windows Live Data service (probably not its final name) enables a deeper level of integration and data access than the Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:38 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

MIX07: Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight

Silverlight implements isolated local storage on the client. Currently in the Alpha, the storage is limited to 1MB per web application and is keyed to the full URL of the XAML/HTML page. That means for this alpha release, two pages that are part of the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:34 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Windows Live Spaces Control Launched

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new client-side web control for accessing Windows Live services: The Windows Live Spaces control ! This control enables web visitors to use photos stored in their Windows Live Spaces photo albums with third Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 12:12 AM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Print Labels With the Windows Live Contacts Control

I was installing a new label printer at home a little while ago and noticed mention of a developer SDK in the readme docs. (Yes, some people actually read the readme) I know from experience that getting text to land right side up on a target as small Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:26 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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