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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

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

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

LiveInABox - Windows Live Service APIs and Examples In One Convenient Location

LiveInABox is a collection of sample projects that show how to use the many Windows Live Services in your own web apps. It's a 4MB MSI that sets up the sample web apps to run on your localhost IIS server, so you can modify and experiment with them on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:51 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Windows Live Contacts Control Shows Online Presence

This month's rev of the Windows Live Contacts Control adds a new "tile" view that displays the photos of your Windows Live IM contacts in the control, and makes starting an IM session with them a simple one-click operation. The top part of this screenshot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:35 PM by dthorpe | 4 Comments

Namespaces in HTML: Too much trouble to bother with

If you've been following the progress of the Windows Live Contacts Control since its launch this past summer, you may recall that in the second beta release we shifted from a programmatic constructor call style of instantiating the control on the web Read More...
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 5:37 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

Windows Live Contacts Control Write API

We've rolled out another release of the Windows Live Contacts Control today, this time adding a write API that enables host web pages to programmatically add and delete contacts with the end user's approval. Earlier releases of the contacts control were Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:21 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
 
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