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Updated Release Notes for Live Framework Tools April CTP

March 19, 2009

Amidst the fanfare and excitement of Mix09 this week, we’ve received reports on the discussion forum from a few folks that were having trouble with the Live Framework SDK and Tools April CTP released last week.  Here’s an update on that issue.
Issue: Visual Studio closes unexpectedly when launching Help: About or when creating or opening [...]

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Live Framework SDK and Tools April CTP Release

March 12, 2009

I’m pleased to announce that we have released our April CTP release of the Live Framwork SDK and Tools in preparation for MIX09 next week.  For full details see the official announcement on the Live Framework blog, but here are the highlights:

You can now run the local client for mesh.com side by side with the [...]

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Mesh Your Ride

December 5, 2008

This may be old news to some, but it just popped up on my radar:  Ori Amiga, frustrated with the lack of truely usable and connected smart devices in the automotive market, built his own custom touchscreen PC console for his Porsche.  It’s a full-on PC running Vista and loaded up with GPS, WiFI, BlueTooth, [...]

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Live Framework Webcast Monday December 8, 2008

December 1, 2008

The Live Services team will be hosting a live webcast to discuss and demo Live Frameworks development topics next Monday December 8, 2008 from 8am to 10am PST (12am – 2am GMT). 
This will be a great opportunity to listen in on technical topics on developing applications with Live Frameworks, both standalone desktop apps as well as [...]

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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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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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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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