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Batch Processing Live Mesh Data with Windows Azure or Live Framework

November 24, 2008

SondreB asks
I’m working on a scenario where I need to process mesh data at intervals. My concern is how I can do delegated authorization in a secure way. How and where do I store the user credentials (or their auth token) in my Windows Azure service? Is there a way of doing interval based processing [...]

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Details on Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3

November 19, 2008

Scott Guthrie gives us a status report on the Silverlight 2 deployment and key design wins worldwide.  100 million downloads of Silverlight 2 in the past 4 weeks.  Silverlight is now on 1 in 4 PCs on the web. BlockBuster and Netflix both use Silverlight for their online movie players.
Scott also sketches out some details on [...]

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Client-Side Live Operating Environment: What’s It For?

November 18, 2008

Dare Obasanjo has written up his characteristically frank first impressions of Live Framework and how it compares to Google’s GData API.  It’s a good read:  Live Framework (LiveFx): Is It Microsoft’s GData or Something More? 
 Dare closes the article with this:
On the flip side, the client-side Live Operating Environment is a technology whose benefits elude me. [...]

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Mashup Camp, Day 1

November 17, 2008

I dropped by the Computer History Museum today to check out this year’s Mashup Camp and see what’s hot and what’s not.  Turnout was good, about the same as what I remember at Mashup Camp in 2006 (or was it 2007?) – roughly 150 people milling about.
Today was pretty much sponsor’s day – the speedgeeking [...]

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How Do I Mesh Thee? Let Me Count The Ways

November 14, 2008

A few folks I’ve talked to in the Live Frameworks CTP forum or in email have expressed a little bit of confusion or a lot of surprise at what you can do with the Live Mesh platform and Live Frameworks. Let’s run through a few of scenarios to give you an idea of the breadth of options you have to leverage Live [...]

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Blog Chatter on Live Framework Tools

November 6, 2008

Now that the PDC crowd is back home again and has had a chance to digest the mountains of information collected during the conference, we’re seeing an uptick in blog posts talking about writing apps for Live Mesh using the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Here are a few posts I’ve stumbled into over [...]

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Inside Live Framework Tools for Visual Studio CTP1

November 5, 2008

Oran Dennison has been dissecting the new Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (“VS tools”) and raised a few questions about how the VS tools are uploading Live Mesh application files into the cloud.
“Why does VS upload files to the cloud individually instead of as one zip file?”
VS uploads individual files to the cloud because that’s what [...]

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Fixing Default Permissions in Mesh Apps Created With Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio

November 4, 2008

We’ve discovered a bug in how the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (“VS tools”) set permission values for Live Mesh-enabled web apps uploaded using the VS tools.  This results in your mesh app running with fewer permissions than the intended default permission set, which will prevent your app from modifying mesh feeds for contacts or news.
You [...]

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