Live Mesh Platformhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/atom.xmlCommunity Server2009-02-11T12:11:59Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/10/05/tfs-for-sourcesafe-users.aspx2009-10-06T01:54:01Z2009-10-06T01:54:01ZThis is really nothing but goodness. The TFS team has done a lot of studies and found there is a group of customers who would just love to replace SourceSafe and do not immediately require all of the many features in a full blown TFS installation. To address such a need there is a TFS Essentials version in the 2010 version of the product. This is good for quickly trying out, wetting yourself and getting the juices flowing so to speak before you eventually decide to upgrade to a higher version of...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/10/05/tfs-for-sourcesafe-users.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9903460" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/07/05/views-that-are-possible-in-visual-studio-2010-architecture-edition.aspx2009-07-06T01:22:55Z2009-07-06T01:22:55ZFollowing are a few of the cool views that you can get in VS 2010. There are a lot more capabilities, which you can explore. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 Architecture...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/07/05/views-that-are-possible-in-visual-studio-2010-architecture-edition.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9818187" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/06/03/bing-it-bing-it-bring-it-on.aspx2009-06-04T02:36:37Z2009-06-04T02:36:37ZHi - Bing is the name of the new search tool from Microsoft. It is pretty amazing in its capability to provide fine tuned searches, as well as showing you your search history. If you already using Live search you will transparently taken to Bing. Now I know Microsoft has been criticized for not providing as good and as sticky a search experience as the competition. But you just need to try out Bing yourself to see how good it is. Here are a few links to the cool capabilities about bing. I like the...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/06/03/bing-it-bing-it-bring-it-on.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9694875" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/05/07/make-web-not-war-from-microsoft.aspx2009-05-07T22:40:19Z2009-05-07T22:40:19Z&#160; This is a slightly fun video for you tech junkies out there. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&amp;vid=9e1142a3-c13e-4156-9bc4-1096f6145434 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCApcSq1ke0 &#160; I will update as the other episodes in this series become available What is this? A teaser video for a larger series around the Microsoft Web Platform, the Web Platform Installer, and the Windows Web Application Gallery. CannonPI – who is that? CannonPI is a play on MagnumPI (and goes along quite...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/05/07/make-web-not-war-from-microsoft.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9594697" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/04/15/deepzoompix-stunning-visual-demos-integrated-use-of-silverlight-deepzoom-and-the-azure-services-platform.aspx2009-04-16T05:36:54Z2009-04-16T05:36:54ZToday MS announced the&#160; go live of DeepZoomPix , a technology demonstration of Microsoft® Silverlight™ , Deep Zoom and the Azure™ Services Platform . Using Silverlight’s exclusive Deep Zoom technology , DeepZoomPix enables you to interactively explore and share photos like never before: Enable a seamless experience for navigating large numbers of images regardless of Internet connection quality. Make possible a “tactile” way of exploring and interacting with photographic images on the web. Empower...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/04/15/deepzoompix-stunning-visual-demos-integrated-use-of-silverlight-deepzoom-and-the-azure-services-platform.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9552042" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/03/19/ie8-officially-released-top-features-and-highlights.aspx2009-03-19T20:12:05Z2009-03-19T20:12:05ZWe released Internet Explorer 8 to the web for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server. Not only is this the best version of Internet Explorer that Microsoft has ever built, it’s the best browser available for consumers, businesses, and developers, period . Download it today at Microsoft.com/ie8 *. Internet Explorer is a critical platform and key to the web.&#160; Customers spend a huge amount of time on the web and Internet Explorer is the way that most people view the web. Like any great...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/03/19/ie8-officially-released-top-features-and-highlights.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9490573" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/03/19/mix-09-announcements-iis-at-mix-2009-extensions-web-application-gallery-web-platform-installer.aspx2009-03-19T18:50:39Z2009-03-19T18:50:39ZThe IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS. This wave of IIS extensions span new functionality in request processing, server management, site/app management and discovery of community applications. Here’s the list, feel free to check out each extension or get the Web Platform Installer to install all of them. The PHP support is what I like the most. This has been a long time coming and...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/03/19/mix-09-announcements-iis-at-mix-2009-extensions-web-application-gallery-web-platform-installer.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9490319" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/03/04/example-of-integrating-live-id-web-authentication-to-your-web-sites.aspx2009-03-05T01:24:36Z2009-03-05T01:24:36ZThe following is a short video which shows how a Web Site has integrated Live ID and used it as one of the authentication mechanisms for their Web site. &#160;...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/03/04/example-of-integrating-live-id-web-authentication-to-your-web-sites.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9458994" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/27/engineering-enhancements-to-windows7-based-on-feedback.aspx2009-02-27T19:20:24Z2009-02-27T19:20:24ZThe Win 7 team has been hard at work taking user feedback and incorporating them into Win7. Some of the most notable are like being able to press &lt;WindowsLogo&gt; + number key to launch applications. For example if you find that you are launching Internet Explorer (or say any other browser frequently) you can make that &lt;WindowsLogo&gt;+1 key. So merely by pressing &lt;WindowsLogo&gt;+1 you will be able to launch your browser. This is for keyboard enthusiasts who want high efficiency. You can...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/27/engineering-enhancements-to-windows7-based-on-feedback.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9449058" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/21/some-more-love-for-windows-live.aspx2009-02-21T18:18:27Z2009-02-21T18:18:27Z&#160; Continuing the sequence of more love for Windows Live, I am posting a couple of&#160; more videos which shows the kinds of consumer scenarios that are possible with Windows Live. &#160; Girl From Mars – Just click on the link to left&#160; or the Picture below for video - best enjoyed in full screen mode. &#160; The above&#160; is a cool video showing a smooth flow of consumer scenario in which a slew of Microsoft technologies are used. &#160; Here is another video (Just click on the image...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/21/some-more-love-for-windows-live.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9437522" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/20/a-little-love-for-windows-live-how-easily-kylie-uploads-and-shares-photos.aspx2009-02-21T05:46:39Z2009-02-21T05:46:39Z&#160; I am planning to post a series of blog-posts on the ease of use and friendliness of using Windows Live. Well what the heck is Windows Live anyway. Windows Live is a comprehensively and well thought out set of integrated services (there is a key difference when we say SERVICES as opposed to Products ) which provide an easy and fun way to share your stuff (be it photos or documents), communicate and collaborate within your social network. Lets first see how easy it is to share your pictures...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/20/a-little-love-for-windows-live-how-easily-kylie-uploads-and-shares-photos.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9436871" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/19/windows-azure-bringing-cloud-computing-to-the-mainstream.aspx2009-02-20T04:10:00Z2009-02-20T04:10:00ZWindows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform and it brings several ideas and concepts in one neat coherent whole.&#160;&#160; The first is developers should be able to write applications that run on the cloud and test it. This is given below. There are toolkits available to write Cloud Apps using Visual Studio and .NET. But since it is all built on Open protocols, these are equally programmable using Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java. As you can see in the picture below there are plug-ins for...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/19/windows-azure-bringing-cloud-computing-to-the-mainstream.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9435247" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/14/windows-live-essentials-free-download.aspx2009-02-14T21:36:19Z2009-02-14T21:36:19Z<p align="justify">I was chatting with some of my friends and I learnt that they did not know of the free goodies from Microsoft called <a href="http://download.live.com">Windows Essentials</a>. So I decided to write a simple post on that including from <a href="http://download.live.com/">where to get it</a>. </p> <p align="justify">&lt;Aside&gt; And while you are at it you can also go and sign up for <a href="http://www.mesh.com">Live Mesh</a> at <a href="http://www.mesh.com">www.mesh.com</a> which is available for Apple Macintosh (<strong>YES</strong> you heard that correctly – Apple ), Windows Mobile devices and of course for PCs running Windows. This essentially allows you to seamlessly and transparently keep your Documents, Folders, files and <strong>Photos</strong> in sync across the various devices once you downloaded and installed the bits on all the devices you want to be part of your <a href="http://www.mesh.com">device mesh</a>. &lt;/Aside&gt;</p> <p align="justify">Now – coming back to Windows Essentials. You also literally get a hard drive in the sky called “skydrive” which gives <strong><font size="4">25GB of free space</font></strong>. </p> <p align="justify"> “<a href="http://download.live.com/">Windows Essentials</a>”&#160; a free download, essentially gives the following free services. One of the most striking features you will see is the better integration between between the various components such as Hotmail, Instant Messenger, Photos, skydrive, Contacts, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, etc.,. </p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>So what do you get when you download and install the <a href="http://download.live.com/">Windows Live Essentials</a>.</p> <ol> <li>Well known hotmail, with a much improved User Interface and lots of nifty new features. </li> <li>Instant Messenger </li> <li>Photo Upload </li> <li>Photo Gallery </li> <li>Movie Maker </li> <li>Free Blogging tools (Live Writer – which is what I used to write thie blog which you are reading)</li> <li>Video uploads and free streaming through Silverlight. </li> </ol> <p>You get a tightly integrated experience of all of the above in one simple page where you have to sign in only once.&#160; See below for some of the things you can see including “What's new in your network of friends/.contacts”</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/WindowsLiveEssentialsfreedownload_B133/image_2.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/WindowsLiveEssentialsfreedownload_B133/image_thumb.png" width="866" height="822" /></a> </p> <p>To get your free download go to <a href="http://download.live.com">http://download.live.com</a>. </p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9422227" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/12/cool-new-nifty-feature-in-live-search.aspx2009-02-12T19:05:58Z2009-02-12T19:05:58Z<p align="justify">There is a cool and nifty feature in Live Search. For those who want to know quickly the stock price and or stock chart of a certain stock just type it in the Search box on the right of the browser.&#160; You will immediately see a drop down with the stock symbol that you typed and a chart. So you can take a quick glance and then close it without actually opening a special browser session. </p> <p align="justify">&#160;</p> <p align="justify">See below for an example what appeared when I typed MSFT. </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/CoolnewniftyfeatureinLiveSearch_8D2B/image_4.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/CoolnewniftyfeatureinLiveSearch_8D2B/image_thumb_1.png" width="576" height="776" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">&#160;</p> <p align="justify">There are other things like if you type “Weather New York” </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/CoolnewniftyfeatureinLiveSearch_8D2B/image_8.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/CoolnewniftyfeatureinLiveSearch_8D2B/image_thumb_3.png" width="586" height="371" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">or want to do quick calculation like “255.45*72.2”</p> <p align="justify">&#160;</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/CoolnewniftyfeatureinLiveSearch_8D2B/image_6.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/girishp/WindowsLiveWriter/CoolnewniftyfeatureinLiveSearch_8D2B/image_thumb_2.png" width="527" height="214" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">&#160;</p> <p align="justify">OR just type in anything and see the browser respond back intelligently. </p> <p align="justify">&#160;</p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:48d053be-75ed-4035-8208-7f02706bd8ce" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">LiveJournal Tags: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=Live+Search" rel="tag">Live Search</a>,<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=stock" rel="tag">stock</a>,<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=weather+calculator" rel="tag">weather calculator</a>,<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=Visual+Search" rel="tag">Visual Search</a>,<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=accelrators" rel="tag">accelrators</a>,<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=slices" rel="tag">slices</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9414984" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishp/archive/2009/02/11/live-services-training-material-videos-now-available.aspx2009-02-11T21:11:59Z2009-02-11T21:11:59Z<p>Finally we are publicly releasing the internal Live Services Training power point decks and videos which we did worldwide at 11 locations. </p> <p>You can find the link to it in: <a title="http://dev.live.com/training/" href="http://dev.live.com/training/">http://dev.live.com/training/</a>&#160;</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>The following are the various sessions that are available in the above link.</p> <p><strong><font size="4">Live Services – go production with these sessions (1-5)</font></strong></p> <ol> <li> <h3>Live Services – An All-Up Technical Overview</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Microsoft Online Identity – Part I</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Microsoft Online Identity – Part II</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Communications – Messenger</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Infrastructure Services <br /> <br /><font size="4">Live Fx - Developing Mesh Applications (6-10)</font></h3> </li> <li> <h3>Future Direction of Live Services</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Resource Model Session</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Cloud APIs</h3> </li> <li> <h3>.NET Libraries</h3> </li> <li> <h3>Mesh Applications</h3> </li> </ol> <p>The session videos are the actual recording at the San Francisco venue and you can see the training with all its questions and answers that are being asked. Watch as your time permits and enjoy. Feel proud to have been one of the team that created this and as well as having delivered it. </p> <p>&#160;</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:335d699a-3bc5-4558-a1da-f5e13a93ab13" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">LiveJournal Tags: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=Live+Services+Jumpstart+training+videos" rel="tag">Live Services Jumpstart training videos</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9413112" width="1" height="1">girishphttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/girishp.aspx