API

In this episode of Web Camps TV, Dan Roth shows you how to extend the reach of your ASP.NET web site using the brand spankin' new ASP.NET Web API. In minutes you'll see how to expose your site's data to any number of devices using JSON and XML, and how you can extend ASP.NET Web API to use…

Leading up to the BUILD Conference, Titus Product Marketing Manager Brendan Farnand discusses how Titus adopts Windows 8 Classification APIs to extend its classification solutions, to support Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook and Word, and Microsoft Sharepoint.

This Security Talk Series video with Aleksey Savateyev, Senior Architect at Microsoft provides in-depth overview of the security aspects associated with development against Service Management API (SMAPI) and MOCP, within the context of Cloud Provisioning & Billing (CPB) solution. CPB…

Recently John Wiese sat down with Jon Hardenbrook of API Healthcare to discuss their use of virtualization.  API Healthcare supports virtualization  of their solutions and has had great success with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V.  Jon shares his views and the information…

Angus Logan from the Windows Live Messenger team stopped by to tell us about the Live Messenger Connect API, what devs can do with it and where to get it. There is a controls playground where you try some of the controls. For more info or to get the SDK go…

Developers take note, the Bing Search Library for PHP has arrived and with it, you now have a simple way to submit queries and retrieve results from the Bing Engine via the Bing API. The results you fetch back can then be used in your own PHP application. To get started, all you need is the code…

At the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, the Windows Live Messenger team announced “Messenger Connect,” a brand-new collection of APIs for Windows Live Messenger. The Messenger Connect API actually ties together APIs that have been around for awhile, including the Windows Live ID, Contacts API,…

The APIs in WPF4 plus the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch make building common touch scenarios easy. However, implementing many of the same touch scenarios using WPF3.5SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 involves writing a fair bit more code. Furthermore, the touch APIs across WPF4,…

Long Zheng, the blogger at the popular site iStartedSomething.com, just revealed his new experimental search engine created using the Bing API. The API, along with JSON and JQuery, was used to create a prototype search engine that “does away with a search button and page loads,” he says. Instead,…

If you’re a developer here in the U.S., there’s a new contest going on now called “Will Code for Green” that’s designed to promote the launch of the new Bing API. Developers are being encouraged to build useful web applications that take advantage of the API’s capabilities in one of two…