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posted Monday, January 28, 2008 10:09 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Three Events in Three Days

I must be mad: three different events in three consecutive days... Building Services on the Microsoft Platform.  Reading, 29th January 2008 Developing on the Windows Live Platform.  Birmingham, 30th January 2008 What's New in Smart Client Development.  Read More

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posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:33 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

SharePoint Slide Decks

Thanks to everyone who came along to our recent SharePoint event for developers.  I noticed that there are some problems with the download links for slide decks on the event page. I've copied all the slides, in PPT and PPTX format, to my Windows Read More

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posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:45 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Windows Live Photo Gallery

One of the new desktop apps that was released yesterday is the Windows Live Photo Gallery.  It looks a lot like the Photo Gallery app in Windows Vista, but it has a few extra features.  For one thing, it can publish photos directly to your Windows Read More

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posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:46 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

A Big Day for Windows Live

Today Microsoft has announced a significant release for Windows Live.  A selection of desktop applications that leverage Windows Live Services, and a number of updates to the Web Services themselves. For all the details, go to http://www.windowslive.com. Read More

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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 Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:16 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Windows Live SkyDrive

Isn't that typical?  I take a week's holiday and the Windows Live people choose that time to make this available to people in the UK.  I've been following Windows Live Folders (as it was called) for a while now, but the beta's only been available Read More

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posted Friday, July 06, 2007 12:55 AM by martin :: 2 Comments

Windows Live Data Article

My latest article for VSJ has been published.  You can see it online here.   Technorati tags: Windows Live, Windows Live Data Read More

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