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• Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club Part 3

  Welcome back to the third part of our deep dive in the Windows Live Quick Apps Website featuring the Contoso Bicycle Club. In this part we’ll take apart one of the main JavaScript function calls that this web site uses, updatePage. This is the main routine in the application and the one that controls the content for the main area of screen. Posted Nov 08 2007, 07:35 PM by Hackersoft with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, SDKs, Spaces, Programming

• Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club Part 2

  Welcome back to the second part of our deep dive in the Windows Live Quick Apps Website featuring the Contoso Bicycle Club. In this part we’ll take a look at another custom user control found on the home page, the Latest Rides feed. This control is like the previous control we took apart in the first part of the deep dive, but with some changes to that manifest themselves into what looks like a completely different control. Posted Nov 08 2007, 07:33 PM by Hackersoft with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, SDKs, Spaces, Programming

• Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club

  The Contoso Bicycle Club is a demonstration website put together to show off a number of Windows Live technologies and how easy it is to integrate these technologies into your own websites. The source code for both this web site and a second web site entitled Contoso University are available for download from CodePlex. One note before we proceed any further. Both of these websites are written to run with Visual Studio Orcas (Beta 2 and above). Both applications also use Asp.Net Ajax and the Contoso Bicycle Club also requires the Asp.Net Ajax Toolkit. Both Asp.Net Ajax, the Toolkit and also Asp.Net Ajax Futures are freely downloadable from here. In this deep dive series, we will take apart the web application and explain in detail exactly how it was put together. Posted Nov 08 2007, 07:29 PM by Hackersoft with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, SDKs, Spaces, Programming

• Windows Live Writer Amazon Starter Plugin

  This is essentially a supplement to Scotts articles on how to write a Windows Live Writer plugin. In this article I'll show you how to implement a simple Amazon Web Service lookup and take that information to create a simple layout for a book review blog post. Live Writer plugins basically fall into a number of categories but the one in this simple example to get you all started is probably the easiest one to start coding with and is based on the CreateContent API. Windows Live Plugins work in essentially the same way for each type of plugin that you create. You have a main cs (or vb) class file that instantiates any windows forms that you want to use, gather the information then plonk that information into Windows Live Writer. The basic example we'll start coding is a book review template. To make things slightly easier, we use Amazon web services to look certain information about the book and also to get a picture of the front cover of the book. Posted May 11 2007, 03:14 PM by Hackersoft with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Add-ins, SDKs, How To, Writer

• "Live In A Box" - A Way To Learn Live SDKs

  The Windows Dev blog posted last week about a new project that has appeared on CodePlex called " Live In A Box ". First thing to note about this project is that although it's been made by people who work at Microsoft, it's not actually an official offering... Posted Mar 18 2007, 02:09 AM by ScottIsAFool with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Gadgets, Live Search, Virtual Earth, API, Contact Cards, SDKs

• Windows Live SDKs

  Over the last year, we've had all sorts of different SDKs released for Windows Live products and services, but yesterday saw the announcement of not another seperate SDK, but the collective Windows Live SDKs. I think this has been a given all along, but we have the "official" status now. So what SDKs are bound by the WL SDK? Taken from the Windows Live SDK page on MSDN, it includes all the following: Posted Jan 27 2007, 05:42 PM by ScottIsAFool with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, API, SDKs

• Windows Live Search SDK Released

  The Windows Live Dev site has just posted that the Windows Live Search SDK is now available on MSDN ( link ). So what's new in this release? According to the blog post it includes: Lots more sample code! Weather and Movie Time queries Support for keyword... Posted Jan 26 2007, 11:33 AM by ScottIsAFool with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Live Search, API, SDKs