Entries tagged with live services - Channel 9

Tool Shed Tooltip #25 - Live Writer ... more than a blogging tool

Russell Fustino — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:26:00 GMT

My browser-based blog posting tools are clunky and difficult to use - there's got to be an easier way! Also, Live Writer is more than a blogging tool. Learn how to post content to a portal!

Download Site: http://download.live.com/writer

Example Problem(s) it solves:

Easily include images (cut & paste) from capture tools like SnagIt and Windows Snipping Tool
Compatible with a wide range of blog and content engines through the metaWeblog API
You can use WLW as a content provider for your own app thru SDK

Installation Notes:

Web installer always gets you the latest version, auto-updates
Choice of other Live tool installs: Messenger, Mail, and Photo Gallery

Usage Notes: Save draft and publish options

This is the fourth of Tool Shed Tooltips clips released from Episode 4 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents... "It's All About The Tools" hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

ToolShed Tooltip #18 - Using Live ID in your Application

Russell Fustino — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:14:00 GMT

Why not take advantage of the millions of Live ID's already on the internet? Watch this video to learn how to incorporate Live ID into your application for authentication.

What is it?
The Windows Live™ ID Web Authentication 1.0 and Client software development kit s(SDK) gives you a platform-neutral way to bring the power of the Windows Live ID authentication service to your own Web site.

Download Site: http://dev.live.com/services

Example Problem(s) it solves:

The ability to use Windows Live to incorporate authenticated Windows Live services into your site.
An HTTP-based, platform-neutral interface for implementing Windows Live ID authentication in your existing site, even if it is hosted by a third-party.
Freedom from the technical details of authentication! The Windows Live ID authentication service handles this for you.
A huge user base: any of the millions of users who have a Windows Live ID can become a user of your site.

Installation Notes: Install the sample to learn it

Usage Notes: must register your application

This is the fifth of Tool Shed Tooltips released from Episode 3 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents... "It's All About The Tools" hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

Show: Episode #3 It's All About The Tools TV Show

Russell Fustino — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:35:00 GMT

Got popcorn? Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow and a ton of “GOT TO KNOW ABOUT IT” content is all packed in just 1 hour of Episode 3. Try something different tonight and take an hour break from coding. You know you deserve it. Grab your favorite beverage and pizza and enjoy this entertaining, enlightening and educational Episode 3. If not, you can wait for the Tool Shed Tooltips of clips from the show over the next few days and weeks. Either way ... tune in. All content is current along with sneak peeks at future tools. It will feel like you are at a live event, but in the comfort of your home or office.

In this video, you will find tools to help solve these common developer challenges…

Finding a XAML Editor for your web page
Prototyping tool for great design of your web site
Need authentication on the web?
Some of the pages on my web site load really slowly - how do I figure out what's going on?
Have you ever eyeballed every record in your table to find an abnormality?

Tool Shed Theme Song
Introduction
Demo 1 - Expression Blend 2 , video and animation intro
Demo 2 - Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow ProtoTyping
Demo 3 - Live Services - Live ID
Demo 4 - IE 8 Developer Tools
Demo 5 - SSIS Data profiling by Guest Speaker Microsoft MVP, Jessica Moss
Developer Community Update by Microsoft MVP, Don Demsak

You will love our guest speakers, Microsoft MVP Jessica Moss and Don Demsak ... Jessica amazes us on Data profiling and Don does and incredible job with the latest happenings in Developer Community.

Special thanks to co-host Stan Schultes, recent co-author on his book on DotNetNuke 5, Jessica Moss, Don Demsak, Carl Franklin, Pensacola Junior College, Main Campus, and the SQL Saturday Pensacola 2009 Team, especially Karla Remail, the live studio audience, and the many volunteers who made this show a reality!

I have reposted all of the Tool Shed Tooltips and Episode One and Episode Two with Hi Def default views, so the code and PowerPoint slides are crystal clear. Feel free to comment or email Russ Fustino on what tools you use and love and would like to see on future episodes.

Also, please note all of the resources on right of the page at: http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed including a link to all Episode PowerPoint’s, demo code and demo scripts! Yes, demos scripts, how often do you see that? So if you are a teacher or student or want to do presentations to co-workers, or at seminars, or just use them as labs to learn, check out this resource at http://code.msdn.com/toolshed . Each release corresponds to an Episode.

Here are some of useful links from the speakers we have had on the shows and more:
Russ Fustino: www.russtoolshed.net
Stan Schultes: www.vbnetexpert.com
Joe Healy: www.devfish.net
Brian Johnson: http://bufferoverrun.net
Jeff Barnes: http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes/
Don Demsak: http://donxml.com
Jessica Moss: http://www.jessicammoss.com
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi: http://www.sedodream.com/
Jason Beres:  http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/jason_beres/default.aspx

Stan and I are planning on are filming a live studio audience Episode 4 at the Tampa .NET User group  (signed release form required) on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at the Tampa Microsoft Office at 6:15PM along with guest speaker Microsoft MVP, Bill Reiss. If you are attending, I can use some volunteers, like camera operators, a sound engineer and door control. I'll teach you at the event, everything to run the camera or sound, if you don't have much experience. Drop me an email if interested at rfustino@microsoft.com Stay tuned.

Note: For those of you new to channel9 viewing, many different formats are available for download besides viewing in the default player; everything from Zune to WMV High Quality. Simply locate the dropdown menu below the embedded player on this page for your desired download selection. If the default view stops to buffer often, then I recommend trying to download WMV High Quality. You can clearly see code, all video and PowerPoint’s in High Def (HD) at full screen. It only takes about 15 to 20 minutes to download this episode at average home speed connections. The high def WMV file is a little over 200 Meg.

Remember, you have to know the code to get into the shed. KNOW THE CODE. Get some popcorn and enjoy the show! Russ

Tool Shed Tooltip #2: Live Services, Virtual Earth, SQL 2008 Geospatial, from Episode 1

Russell Fustino — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:40:00 GMT

Learn about Live Services and see how to hook up Virtual Earth to the new SQL 2008 Geospatial support.

What is it?
Windows Live Web Services enable developers, designers, and enthusiasts to quickly create compelling web and desktop applications.

Download Site: http://dev.live.com

Example Problem(s) it solves:
Add Search, Mapping, and rich media (Silverlight) to your apps and websites.
Integrate blog, photo and contact management into your apps.

Installation Notes: Live Services are a set of web services, SDKs, samples and documentation that help you get up and running quickly.

Usage Notes: requires Live ID authentication.

This clip is Russ' Tool Shed Tooltip #2, the second of the clips from Episode One of the TV Show, Russ' Tool Shed presents... It's All About The Tools hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco on May 27 2009

Adam Kinney — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:19:00 GMT

This is a personal invite from James Senior to attend the Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco on May 27, 2009. Bring your code and work with the Live Services engineers to add Instant Messaging, Friends lists and more to your website.

Show: It’s All About The Tools – TV Show, Episode One

Brian Johnson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:54:00 GMT

Have you ever felt inundated with developer tools? Do you ever feel you're missing something that could make your life easier as a developer and a power user?

There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with them. Tool familiarity continues to be one of the top developer challenges. This series of seminars is all about tools for developers, by developers. Join Microsoft Florida Developer Evangelist Russ Fustino & Microsoft MVP Stan Schultes and others as they bring you demos and discussion about their favorite developer tools.

In this video, you will find tools to help solve these common developer challenges…

Building and deploying video capability in websites
Integrating Mapping Services
Managing your development machine
What’s exactly in those messages in your service layer?
Need storage that’s accessible from anywhere?
Create beautifully styled WPF applications with no lines of code (and no design team!)
Easily Developing Office Business Applications

(When viewing in Silverlight, the dots on the timeline correspond to the scenes listed below.)

Tool Shed Theme Song
Introduction
Demo 1 – Silverlight Live Plug-in for Expression Encoder
Demo 2 – Live Services – Virtual Earth
Demo 3 – SysInternals
Demo 4 – Fiddler
Demo 5 – Windows Live Sky Drive
Demo 6 – WPF Application Styling by guest speaker Jason Beres of Infragistics
Demo 7 – Visual Studio Tools for Office
Developer Community Update by Joe Healy

Special thanks to co-host Stan Schultes, Jason Beres of Infragistics, Carl Franklin, DeVry University Miramar, Joe Healy, the South Florida Code Camp Team and Attendees, and the many volunteers who made this show a reality!

Special notes:

To use the Infragistics WPF Application Styling download, install the NetAdvantage Win Client and then install the Styling CTP
Listen to Dot Net Rocks on March 26 for aninterview with Russ and Stan on filming of this show along with some exciting presentation tips and tricks.

Blog: It's All About The Tools TV Show - World Premiere to be posted on Thursday, March 19

Russell Fustino — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:54:00 GMT

Are you one of over 100,000 developers who has seen a MSDN Russ' Tool Shed Event over the past 10 years? If not, now is your chance. Microsoft's Russ Fustino has captured an exciting new format for the event. It is a TV Show; including a co-host, MVP Stan Schultes, Guest Speaker from Infragistics, Jason Beres and Microsoft Developer Evangelist Joe Healy doing a developer community wrapup. We filmed this in front of a live studio audience at the South Florida Code Camp a few weeks back and it is ready to be published. Come back to this page on Thursday at approximately 11am EST for the World Premiere of a tool focused show call It's All About The Tools - TV Show, Episode One. Knowing the right developer tool for the job at hand is more important than ever, and that is what this show is all about... tools. Come back on Thursday to be entertained, enlightened and educated.

Live Services Explained

Adam Kinney — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:00 GMT

What's the difference between Live Services, Live Framework and Live Mesh? James Senior has arrived to explain how you can use Live Services in your applications today and how you can plan future development with the Live Framework. For detailed developer information on APIs and documentation head over to dev.live.com.

Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication

Dariusz Parys — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:43:00 GMT

Dieser Screencast beschreibt kurz die Möglichkeiten der Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication und zeigt das anhand eines kleinen Beispielprojektes

Viel Spaß,
Dariusz

Windows Live ID Web Authentication

Dariusz Parys — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:01:00 GMT

In diesem Screencast geht es um die Integration der Windows Live ID in eigene Web Anwendungen. Es wird erklärt welches SDK dafür benötigt wird und die einzelnen Bausteine in der Anwendung gezeigt, die für die Integration zuständig sind.

Freue mich über Feedback,
Dariusz

This Week on C9: Xbox & Zune get updates, C9 gets custom CSS, and autonomous trucks!

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:33:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by Steve Velat, a PhD student at Univ. of Florida working on cool autonomous robots. This week's news includes:

- Microsoft store launches (1:00 - 1:40)
- The New Xbox Experience is now available including new services like NetFlix, new avatars, and XNA Community games (1:51 - 3:37)
- Windows Live OneCare is discontinued, but Morro will be a free lightweight offering...60% of developed nations don't have up-to-date security protection (higher in emerging markets) (3:37 - 5:09)
- Zune Pass update means that every month you can own 10 songs (5:09 - 6:23)
- Omar Shahine discusses Windows Live updates, and New York Times declares Microsoft the winner of Social Inbox 2.0 (6:23 - 7:40)
- Live Search API adds XML, JSON APIs, removes query limit, and enables you to specify Web, news, images, phonebook, Encarta Instant Answers, etc for search results (7:40 - 9:17)
- CodeProject article shows building a Pan & Tilt camera with object tracking using LEGO NXT (9:17 - 10:25)
- The 9 guy, Brian, and Dan make it on to Microspotting (10:25 - 11:12)
- Rico Mariani, the architect for Visual Studio tooling, discusses the Visual Studio Technology Roadmap (11:12 - 13:10)
- OnMicrosoft video site launches, includes interviews with the Microsoft product teams (13:10 - 14:00)
- Channel 9 dev team adds user-generated CSS extensions and Jamie's built some cool ones already (14:00 - 15:00)
- Charles has a two-part video series with Brian Beckman on state monads and concurrency, Part 1 and Part 2 (15:00 - 15:46)
- Dan's pick of the week: Dan declares Wrath of the Lich King is the most extensible and popular game on the planet. (15:46 - 18:15)
- Brian's pick of the week: Greg Duncan's find on extending VSTS Power Tools with Skype to talk directly to teammates (18:15 - 19:20)
- Steve's pick of the week: Robotic Assisted Convoy Operation - A video clip of automated transport vehicles using IR emitters to drive actual convoy trucks (19:20 - end)

Dharma Shukla: Inside Live Framework

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Dharma Shukla, Architect for the Live Framework, knows how to make developers happy. After delivering the programming model for the Workflow Foundation, he joined the Live Services team to develop a unified, simple and open way for developers to program against the full set of Live Services – from any device, any platform, client or cloud. We sat down with Dharma to understand the hard problems he set out to solve, and the approach he took building the Live Operating Environment and Live Framework

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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.

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

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: 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: 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: 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