Ori Amiga: Programming the Mesh
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Back at MIX, the Live Platform Services team announced a new standard APP-based protocol for accessing your Live data, and at Web 2.0 the Live Mesh team has announced plans to extend that API with synchronization-ready access to data, devices, application
and activity feeds. Ori Amiga shows a number of demos showing the native Mesh feeds, WPF applications using Mesh, a Silverlight client that supports working on and offline, a custom Facebook application that syncs Facebook photos with Live Mesh, a Mac client
that sends photos to Live Mesh and even LINQ queries over Mesh objects.
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For more Live Mesh coverage:
- Watch the demo of the Live Mesh application on Channel 10
- Watch an interview with Abolade Gbadegesin on Live Mesh Architecture
- Meet the Live Mesh team
- Read the transcript and grab the audio from Jon Udell's perspective series.
- Low res version
- MP4 version
For more Live Mesh coverage:
- Watch the demo of the Live Mesh application on Channel 10
- Watch an interview with Abolade Gbadegesin on Live Mesh Architecture
- Meet the Live Mesh team
- Read the transcript and grab the audio from Jon Udell's perspective series.
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My head is spinning..this very far reaching and very cool. I would imagine the network infrastructure you are setting up to enable this is a monster.
For me, it will be interesting to see if this could be leveraged for digital rights management. Something like associating licenses to a users Mesh instead of a specific device.
How do you launch the apps? Will there be Start Menu integration or will they be listed within some Live Mesh specific location (or do we just sync the shorcuts/favorites)?
How would the mesh handle concurrency? If two users are working on something and one saves right before the other, what happens? Or is this not meant to be a multi-user environment.
The mesh synchronization infrastructure essentially detects conflicts at the DataEntry level – so in the case of file synchronization, this happens at the file file/metadata level. While the system is able to resolve conflicts “automatically” if needed, in general it leaves the conflict resolution logic to the application layer. For example, using the scenario you describe below where “two users are working on something and one saves right before the other” – the mesh user experience (e.g., Live Folders) will prompt the user with information about the two conflicting files and allow the user to select how they would like to resolve the conflict. This approach enables applications which are able to handle conflicts at different levels to apply the appropriate logic for their users. In other scenarios where multiple users may be editing different DataEntries within the same Feed in the system – the system will automatically apply merge semantics for the changes.
The last 20 mins of demo time was really amazing, I think this opens up tonnes of opportunities as a developer but as an end-user I can think of even more real world get it going today right now kinda scenarious. Move over skydrive and get Mesh out there as quickly as possible.
Kevin
Your kidding. If you can't think of at least 100 ways you would have used this stuff as a developer....
Interestingly enough.... (at about 9:50 in the video)
Also a cool way to define allowed vendors on a credit card - sort like a VLAN. So you could an employee a company CCd that works only at HomeDepot and the local gas station. Other transactions could be approved with a confimed message to owner in ~real time. Also my QB or OA at work would be updated *with the digital receipt of items. Save me ton of time holding receipts and entering data.
this video really opened up my eyes to the true power of Mesh. Thanks on such a useful video!
Now all I'm waiting for is the SDK and access to Mesh
Absolutely awesome. Somebody get us on the CTP and provide us with an SDK!
The tech preview program is currently full so am a bit disappointed
Although I got registered and am in the queue, hopefully would get a chance to try the SDK soon. .
Saw all the reviews/video's saturday and can't stop thinking about the awesome possibilities. Great! Can't wait to get my hands on it and testdrive it.
Not being able to attend a conference and being in the Netherlands is bound to have me drewl a few months but still...
Curiously though how you integrate Mesh with a server enviroment though...
Jochem.
instead of RDP for applications how about a softgrid type of deployment
So can you use WebDav on a regular folder as a way to set-up new files in the cloud?
What's the URL to use?
Would you still need webdav if you can just copy files into a local Mesh folder?
Lacking access to the SDK yet, I tought I'd at least start mucking with the POX data to do some internal demos for our existing applications we have in development...
i am one of the oldest Groove partners and now an MVP for Groove
saw this coming some time ago when i attended the Strong Angel III meet at san diego last year but never realised just how far SSE would unfold
Ray has been dreaming of this awhile i realise now. Promised to disrupt the world of It way back in 2001 - started with Groove which is still the best online / offline collaboration tool out there
Mesh is going to deliver on that promise fully.
ashok hingorani
Awesome video!!! I thought Silverlight 2 was going to be the best thing this year, but you have made me have a rethink - Silverlight 2 with Mesh (specifically services against the MOE) is now the best thing to happen this year.
When the SDK is made available (do you know eta?) will you be providing source code for your demos - I'm very interested in Silverlight 2 and LINQ with Mesh.
Do you have a Blog / Forum?
Thanks
Richie
I saw this interview in "Featured" area in the top right area of your web site. Then I clicked somewhere else and "Featured" changed to something else.
So, I wanted to find it. I looked around, did refresh couple of times hoping it will show up in Featured again. But no luck.
Then I clicked on Search button and typed "programming mesh" without quotes... It returned a bunch of irrelevant results. Then I used quotes, no luck again. In fact there was no difference, the result set was the same.
Now, I went to Google, clicked on Advanced Search and put "programming mesh" and typed to search on msdn.com website...
So what is your guess? A link to this interview was the 2nd one, and it took me about 20-30 seconds to find this post through Google.
And this is true for most of the documentation from Microsoft. I use google to search for help files on msdn, and have better luck in doing so then using live search.
I don't like Google's predetory behavior and their policies at large, but hey, do I
have a choice?
MS live search is not the worst though, try finding something on IBM's web site, it is like in the jungle
Although their (IBM's) other software is very good.
Michael Herman
Parallelspace Corporation
p.s. What is the replacement for Desktop.ini in a Mesh-managed folder? How can I customize the icon for a folder at a replica and have that customization flow throughout a mesh? In the CTP, Desktop.ini is not replicated and believe it's format also varies across OSes.
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