October 2007 - Posts

posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:30 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Windows Live Event Next Week

Mike Ormond and I will be speaking about Windows Live at our offices in Reading, next Tuesday, 6th November.  We'll build a social-networking web application to show how to use various Windows Live services. I'll talk about authentication using Read More

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posted Monday, October 29, 2007 6:27 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Debugging and the Windows Live Contacts API

Windows Live offers a RESTful API for applications to access individual users' Windows Live address books.  If this is news to you, please start here on MSDN, or see my earlier post for more details.  This API is implemented via a service Read More

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posted Monday, October 29, 2007 1:21 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Free Source Code

The Windows Live Quick Apps are more than just great examples of social networking sites that use the Windows Live technologies.  In many cases you can use pieces of those apps, and simply re-skin them to suit your own purposes.  Failing that, Read More

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posted Monday, October 22, 2007 1:11 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Unanswered Question from ASP.NET 3.5 Event

In my ASP.NET 3.5 sessions last week, the same question was asked in two different venues.  It relates to the demo where I show the three new controls... <asp:ListView> <asp:LinqDataSource> <asp:DataPager> When I use the DataPager Read More
posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:08 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Another one in the "experience" column

Last night Daniel and I spoke at an event in Edinburgh.  It was well-attended (thanks everyone) but I'm afraid that things didn't go too well technically.  Daniel was beset with Javascript IntelliSense problems, which I cheekily smirked about, Read More
posted Friday, October 12, 2007 4:01 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Updates for Windows Live SkyDrive

A couple of recent updates for Windows Live's "storage in the cloud" service, SkyDrive... Firstly, the amount of storage you get has been doubled to 1GB. Second, you can now subscribe to an RSS feed for a SkyDrive public folder.  That means you'll Read More
posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:00 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

PHP on Windows Servers

I'm sure I've posted something before about PHP.  I would rank myself as a complete novice where PHP is concerned, but I'm interested to learn that we've been doing a lot of work to improve support for PHP on Windows Servers.  Specifically, Read More
posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 6:53 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

ADO.NET Synchronization Services

I've been playing with this a little bit recently.  Mike wrote a couple of posts about it some time back, and you can get the full details on MSDN here.  Since Mike's posts we've had Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, which has great assistance for Read More