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Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:06 GMT

What's it like building an application that uses feeds and synchronization? The Live Services resource and synchronization model offers a lot of flexibility to developers and a different approach to development from typical database or SQL replication. I built one of the first Mesh applications at Microsoft, and I'll share the top five things I learned.

Don Gillett

Live Services: Programming Live Services Using Non-Microsoft Technologies

Duncan Mackenzie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Live Services building blocks expose a platform-independent, language neutral, protocol-based programming model. The framework is designed from the get-go to not be bound to any platform-specific technology (Microsoft's or otherwise) or implementation. Dive into how to exercise this programming model and build applications on top of the Live Services using technologies such as PHP and others.

Nishant Gupta

Live Services: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:52 GMT

Learn about FeedSync and how Live Mesh uses it to synchronize data across devices and to the cloud. Understand how to use FeedSync and the new Live Framework to integrate your existing web and client data with Live Mesh.

Steven Lees

Live Services: Notifications, Awareness, and Communications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:55 GMT

Learn how the new Live Framework allows applications to pass, persist, and surface data across devices, users and applications. Hear how to leverage peer-to-peer, relay, subscriptions, notifications, news, activities, and more in applications and services.

John Macintyre
John is a Group Program Manager with the Live Mesh team. He has been with Microsoft since 2000. Prior to the Live Mesh team he worked in the Windows Core Operating System Division.

Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:56 GMT

Live Mesh Services provide the infrastructure for devices to share and listen: communicating status, accepting remote management, and synchronizing and sharing files and applications. See how the combination of software running on devices, services running in the cloud, and open protocols and APIs of the Live Framework make it all happen.

Jeremy Mazner

Live Services: Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:51 GMT

Come learn how to extend your existing web applications and get them to live and breathe within Live Mesh. Mesh-enabled web applications can be accessed from anywhere through a web browser as well as run locally (and offline) on a user's desktop and can take full advantage of many Mesh value-add services such as a dedicated sandbox, online and offline synchronized storage, auto deployment and update, identity, application catalogue, social computing and more. Learn about the architecture and lifecycle of applications which live in the Mesh and how to Mesh-enable your Silverlight 2 and JavaScript application.

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

Live Services: A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:16 GMT

Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. See new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more.

Ori Amiga

Live Services: Building Applications with the Live Framework

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:17 GMT

Learn how you can use the Live Framework within web (ASP.NET) and client (.NET Framework) applications to integrate with various Live Services. See how to get started, integrate exciting new capabilities into your app, and target unique new scenarios that reach new users.

Raymond Endres

Live Services: Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:18 GMT

You've heard how Live Mesh combines the world of the web and the world of digital devices. But what does it mean for you? Take a look under the hood at how the mesh works on the client and in the massively scalable cloud, and learn insights about how to light-up your own solutions for the mesh world. Go deep on FeedSync-based synchronization, authentication and policy, peer connectivity, and more.

Abolade Gbadegesin
Abolade Gbadegesin has constructed numerous castles across the Live Mesh cloud. Before that, he worked as a plumber replacing the Windows networking stack. Now he's a mechanic on the Windows Live storage platform, assembling interesting machines from sundry spare parts.

Live Services: Deep Dive on Microsoft Virtual Earth

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:25 GMT

Learn about the next major release of Virtual Earth. See the improvements to our parsing and geo-coding engines, clustering, localization, and routing. Hear how the new Virtual Earth Web Services provide server-side support for building location-based applications on desktops and mobile devices.

Mark Brown
Mark is an 8+ year veteran at Microsoft and has held numerous technical and business roles. Currently, Mark is a Senior Product Manager for Virtual Earth and owns the developer and partner ecosystem.

Live Services: Live Framework Programming Model Architecture and Insights

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:37 GMT

Hear about the inner-workings of the new Live Services developer stack-the Live Framework. See the engine that makes it all work, and cover advanced topics such as hybrid client/cloud scripting, custom object extensibility, and complex batching and optimizations. Learn not only about the "what" and "how," but about the theory and "why" behind the new Live Framework architecture.

Ori Amiga

Live Services: Making your Application More Social

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:38 GMT

What can you do to increase your web application's impact? Add a social element! There are hundreds of millions of people who use Windows Live services every month that you can access via the Live Services APIs today.

Angus Logan

Identity: Live Identity Services Drilldown

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:39 GMT

Live Identity Services enables developers on any platform to choose the identity integration model that best enables their scenarios, including: web or client authentication, delegated authentication, or federated authentication. Learn how to build seamless, cobranded, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences.

Jorgen Thelin
Jorgen Thelin is a Senior Program Manager for Identity Services in the Windows Live Division at Microsoft in Redmond. He deals with the creation of new product features for Microsoft’s federated identity provider infrastructure known as Windows Live ID, with particular focus on the developer-facing integration APIs.

Identity: Connecting Active Directory to Microsoft Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:50 GMT

Learn how to augment your existing IT infrastructure with Microsoft Services. Manage and secure end-user access to cloud services using your existing investment in Active Directory. Enable end users to access Microsoft services through existing Active Directory accounts, the same way they access your intranet-hosted software today. Hear how to enable existing software to use new service capabilities without re-writes, and do it all through the use of open and standard protocols.

Lynn Ayres
Tore Sundelin