Vikas Ahuja

Live Services Jump Start Training Sessions available

2009-02-17T08:43:28Z

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 I Microsoft Online Identity – Part II Communications – Messenger Infrastructure Services Future Direction of Live Services Resource Model Session Cloud APIs .NET Libraries Mesh Applications Check these out! Technorati Tags: Live Framework ,...(read more)

Azure Services Training Toolkit – February 2009 Update is now available

2009-02-08T01:28:36Z

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 Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The February release includes the following updates:...(read more)

Windows Live Tools – November 2008 CTP – enabled for Windows Azure

2008-10-31T20:30:07Z

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 with trust policy of Windows Azure. Lets take a quick lap on how to use Windows Live Tools into Windows Azure’s Cloud Project. To start development with Windows Live Tools/Windows Azure, you would need to install Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure...(read more)

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

2008-08-28T19:20:31Z

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 to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Introducing Compatibility View IE 8 Performance Part I: Better Everyday Browsing Links: http://delicious.com/vikasahuja/IE8 Technorati Tags: Internet Explorer , Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2...(read more)

Windows Live Tools – Links [08/13/2008]

2008-08-14T19:52:41Z

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 previous version to use this new control. No RTFM, just drag and drop, set properties and copy/modify some relevant code. …” Ars Technica [July 28, 2008] : ”… Windows Live Tools is a set of control add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer...(read more)

Server Side Clustering with the VE ASP.NET Map Control

2008-08-10T09:53:07Z

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 server side clustering for performance and has posted videos and samples as well. Check it out. Technorati Tags: Windows Live Tools , Virtual Earth , Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control , LiveSide.Net , MVP...(read more)

Live Europe Weather Map with ASP.NET VE Map Control

2008-08-07T05:53:21Z

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 use this new control. No RTFM, just drag and drop, set properties and copy/modify some relevant code. And still, the current implementation consumes only small part of functionality this control offers, leaving a lot of space for additional enhancements.”...(read more)

Get Windows Live Tools

2008-08-04T20:24:38Z

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=en You can also browse Download Center’s download directory by listing “product family: developer tools” and “product: Microsoft Visual Studio” as shown below. Search on Microsoft.com’s Download Center You can search on Microsoft.com’s...(read more)

Live Platform @ PDC 2008

2008-08-04T06:55:23Z

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 P2P sync works: PDC 2008 Session list is available here: http://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx . You can subscribe to PDC blog RSS feed here: http://blogs.msdn.com/pdc/rss.xml Update: Minor formatting changes. Technorati Tags:...(read more)

Virtual Earth Map Control – great introduction by John O'Brien

2008-08-04T01:33:56Z

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 the full experience of installing the control and coding with its basic features. Each video is fairly detailed and runs for about 5-7min. They are hosted by Silverlight Streaming so you will need to install the latest Beta2 Silverlight Client or...(read more)

SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer – screencast available

2008-07-30T22:56:46Z

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 from here . I would discuss this control in one of my future posts. SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer is compatible with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and is based on MediaPlayer control it offers. You can get the MediaPlayer as well as Silverlight 2 from...(read more)

Windows Live Tools – July 2008 CTP – introduces ASP.NET Server Control for Virtual Earth Map

2008-07-30T12:11:28Z

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 meeting their needs. Now, you have ASP.NET control available right from your Visual Studio toolbox which you can drag and drop on your web page, do server side web page programming (e.g. pull store locations or last location of the delivery vehicle etc.)...(read more)

Windows Live Tools and ASP.NET Futures 1.3.61025

2007-12-08T04:21:00Z

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 compilation error. For example, if you are defining chapters collection for your video content, you would hit compilation error. Here's the declaration of SilverslightStreamingMedia control on default.aspx after drag and drop from toolbox and defining a chapter...(read more)

Windows Live Tools November 2007 CTP is available

2007-11-10T03:27:00Z

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 live services. This CTP provides ASP.NET server controls related to Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live ID authentication and Silverlight Streaming. This release brings developers closer to building Web sites using ASP.NET and Visual Studio toolset....(read more)

Preview of Forums

2007-08-15T20:50:00Z

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. Functionality that is offered in the 1st CTP is limited for the moment, however, we are planning to update this frequenctly. You can give feedback on general UI approach and the direction we are taking with the placeholder images. You can provide your...(read more)