Live Mesh

Can we post questions anywhere?  Is there a forum?

I have a couple of deeper questions about the platform that aren't really covered in these videos.

How do you define a data model schema?  Is it XSD?  Or some proprietary format that would be used by your back-end data store.

can you provide hints in the XSD for defining indexes?  Primary keys etc?

Can you define different sycnchronization conflict resolution rules?  How do you ensure clock synchronization for data timestamps?

The LINQ SDK looks  very generic with name/value pairs.  To get at the real data would you use Linq to XML?  Is there some integration planned with schema repositories and code gen (like LInq to SQL)?  Maybe using LINQ to XSD??

Will the deserialized objects in LINQ or in the SDK support INotifyPropertyChanged?   Have you looked at CLINQ as a potential way of avoiding continuous in-memory requeries (hinted at during one of the C9 videos).

What about federated data stores in the enterprise?  Would those data stores act as mesh clients themselves?  How would you integrate corporate identity with external internet identity?

For local data store queries via localhost, how is the data stored?  Is this a local SQL CE database?  Is the same indexing and perf optimizations performed locally and replicated from the cloud?  What about other platforms - just XML stores?

How does the system deal with limited resources?  Can it span multiple disks?  Can you priotize synchronization?

How would media DRMed files be handled?  Would licenses be replicated?

Amit Mital here – I run the Live Mesh & Developer Platform team. At Web 2.0 in April we announced

At Web 2.0 in April we announced Live Mesh and opened it up for people to try out our platform experience