Vikas Ahuja

Live Services Jump Start Training Sessions available

vikasahuja — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:43:28 GMT

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...(read more)

Azure Services Training Toolkit – February 2009 Update is now available

vikasahuja — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:28:36 GMT

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...(read more)

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

vikasahuja — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:30:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

vikasahuja — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:31 GMT

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...(read more)

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

vikasahuja — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:52:41 GMT

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...(read more)

Server Side Clustering with the VE ASP.NET Map Control

vikasahuja — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:53:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Live Europe Weather Map with ASP.NET VE Map Control

vikasahuja — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:53:21 GMT

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...(read more)

Get Windows Live Tools

vikasahuja — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:24:38 GMT

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...(read more)

Live Platform @ PDC 2008

vikasahuja — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:55:23 GMT

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...(read more)

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

vikasahuja — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:33:56 GMT

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...(read more)

SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer – screencast available

vikasahuja — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:56:46 GMT

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...(read more)

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

vikasahuja — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:11:28 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Live Tools and ASP.NET Futures 1.3.61025

vikasahuja — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Live Tools November 2007 CTP is available

vikasahuja — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Preview of Forums

vikasahuja — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:50:00 GMT

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....(read more)