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We’ve been operative tough upon a Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows we to bond your web site to 330M+ people who have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of Windows Live Messenger each month! Today we’d similar to to have known a accessibility of a Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 which will enhance a user experience, make it simpler to capacitate pity around Messenger scenarios upon your site (new pity control), as well as enable brand brand brand brand brand brand new scenarios (e.g. people who don’t have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of Messenger will be means to see arrangement pics / names). Specifically, a improvements we have finished are:

• User experience: smoothed out a user experience, combined a initial run experience, stretched a browser support, increasing a opening
• Developer experience: marked down a volume of formula for we to exercise “Share around Windows Live” as well as a Messenger Web Toolkit is right away built upon a Microsoft Ajax library.
• New scenarios: Allow people who don’t have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of Messenger to see display cinema and names of Messenger users.

How did we figure out what have been a many critical things to get in this release? We listened to as well as incorporated a good feedback from a partners (some award winning), and were means to come up with brand brand brand brand brand brand new as well as sparkling scenarios.

User Experience: Sexier, faster, upheld in some-more browsers

To move some-more people to your site as well as get them to outlay some-more time there, a user knowledge needs to be superb. We have finished a Messenger Web Toolkit user knowledge improved in many ways:

• Speed: In Mar 2009 we lengthened Windows Live Hotmail to have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of a Messenger Web Toolkit (see a post). By carrying a pieces regulating during Hotmail scale we were means to accumulate a ton of report around opening as well as we’ve acted upon it: a MWT will right away load faster (full/first time loads as well as cranky page navigation).
• Availability/Reach: combined browser await for Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, as well as Google Chrome 2 - right away some-more people can bond & share with their Windows Live friends upon your site.
• Education: One of a many discernible UX changes we’ve finished is a initial run knowledge for a Web Bar (a singular carry out we can have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of if we don’t wish to set up your own experience). When we initial have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of a Web Bar upon a site, a tiny popup will surprise a user they can pointer in as well as discuss it them a pass things they need to know to begin joining as well as pity with their friends.

• Looks: we have additionally updated a web controls as well as web club user knowledge to cleanser

Developers: Easier to supplement pity controls as well as aligned with some-more tech

We’ve finished dual things for developers 1) combined a brand brand brand brand brand brand new carry out for pity which reduces a volume of formula compulsory as well as 2) altered a underlying JavaScript libraries to a Microsoft Ajax libraries.

Sharing control: in reserve from in-page chat, a subsequent many usual unfolding we see is sharing around present messaging. Sharing calm is critical as well as it is mostly a vital motorist of user merger (or user retention). To assimilate a differences in between pity around a open feed, newsfeed as well as present messaging review my post upon user acquisition.

The crux is: a user’s friends have been some-more expected to click by to see a content/service being common with them if it is finished around present messaging as well as in a conversational way.

To have pity around Windows Live Messenger most simpler we have combined a brand brand brand brand brand brand new control, msgr:share. The pity carry out reduces a volume of formula compulsory to a following:

// embody a JavaScript libraries
<msgr:app … insert the code for app tag here… />
<msgr:bar></msgr:bar>

<msgr:share
  message="I am pity a Messenger Web Toolkit http://dev.live.com/messenger with you"
  picker-label="Select Contacts">
</msgr:share>

The carry out contains a user knowledge which will pointer a user in (via a agree flow), uncover a strike selector control, as well as send an IM with a predefined content.

Aside from manifest facilities such as a pity control, we have additionally finished a little infrastructure work. The Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit is right away built with a Microsoft AJAX Library. With this integration, a Messenger Web Toolkit focus functions with a customary browser runtime living room for Microsoft web growth tools. Prior to chronicle 3.5, a Web Toolkit worked with a Script# runtime living room declared ’sscorlib’. See Microsoft Ajax to establish either we need to have any changes with your application.

Something for people who don’t have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of or aren’t sealed in to Messenger

People regulating Windows Live Messenger in all discuss with people they have ‘friended’ in Messenger. However, infrequently people who have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of Messenger upon a web site might wish to discuss with alternative people they know from which web site (who have been not their friends upon Messenger). We call this underline Application Contacts. The cold thing about this is when we pointer in to a web site (and accede to accede to pointer in to Windows Live Messenger) which uses Application Contacts, alternative site visitors can discuss with me whilst I’m upon a site, or anytime when we have Windows Live Messenger customer open (all a time, similar to hundreds of millions of alternative people).

We have finished a lot of enhancements to Application Contacts (more information), though a vital shift is which we don’t need to be sealed in to a Messenger Web Toolkit for all scenarios. People who have been not Windows Live Messenger users (or have been not sealed in to Messenger upon a web site) can still see a form design as well as arrangement name of user’s a web site chooses to display. This is quite engaging for commenting as well as user form scenarios. To have have have have have have make make make use of of of of of of of of of this functionality a brand brand brand brand brand brand new Messenger Application Key contingency be used. This is equivalent to a use account. Our documentation upon Application Contacts outlines how to get a key.

Previously, if we longed for to uncover a arrangement pictures/names to a user who wasn’t sealed in to Messenger a pics/display name weren’t available. Using a updated Application Contacts functionality we can right away uncover arrangement names as well as cinema to people who aren’t Windows Live Messenger users (or people who haven’t sealed in yet). See a prior to & after:

Party on

Try out a brand brand brand brand brand brand new pieces dev.live.com/messenger as well as if we have ideas or questions, strike us in a forum.

/Angus Logan, Technical Product Manager

My name is Rob Dolin, we work as an operative upon a Windows Live Social group as well as I’m respected to have a eventuality to guest blog here during http://dev.live.com/ about a singular of a ultimate (and IMHO many exciting) features, a formation with a singular of a world’s largest amicable networks, MySpace.

We usually voiced upon a Windows Live Team blog, starting a week of September 14^th, you can supplement a MySpace “Web Activity” to Windows Live so which we can move your activities upon MySpace similar to posting photos, updating status, pity music, or blogging in to Windows Live. Heck, if we have a MySpace comment (and hundreds of millions of people already do) we can try it right now:

http://profile.live.com/WebActivities/add.aspx?AppID=1140860417

(link will open in a brand brand brand brand brand brand new window)

About Web Activities

With today’s ultimate partner integrations upon Windows Live, we’ll have over fifty web activities which Windows Live business can supplement in to their Windows Live experience. (To sense some-more about all a Windows Live partners, check out a Windows Live Team blog). Nearly all of a web activities occupy a polling indication where a patron enters a little simple report about their participation upon a website as well as afterwards Windows Live intermittently polls an XML feed of a customer’s wake up upon which site. In a past, this feed has been in RSS 2.0 or Atom as well as afterwards for any partner, we have a law XSLT which maps a elements from a customer’s feed to a interpretation attributes in Windows Live’s system. For example, yesterday, we was out to cooking with my partner as well as we posted a next tweet:

(from: http://twitter.com/robdolin)

Since we have already set up a Windows Live web wake up for Twitter, my chatter feed, Windows Live can go as well as review my chatter feed (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/4044361.rss):

<item> 
     <title>robdolin: @ Capital Grille ! New tumble prix fixe menu was good value; H pronounced she would steal a lorry for a truffle mac &amp; cheese #seattle #food</title>

     <description>robdolin: @ Capital Grille ! New tumble prix fixe menu was good value; H pronounced she would steal a lorry for a truffle mac &amp; cheese #seattle #food</description>

     <pubDate>Thu, 10 September 2009 03:31:14 +0000</pubDate>

     <guid>http://twitter.com/robdolin/statuses/3879866454</guid>

     <link>http://twitter.com/robdolin/statuses/3879866454</link>

</item>

And afterwards tell a refurbish upon my interest to my Windows Live profile:

(from: http://cid-3c8ca60f8f925fec.profile.live.com/)

My friends who make make use of of Windows Live afterwards see my refurbish from a Twitter web wake up in a following places:

· When they make make use of of Windows Live Messenger

· When a login to http://home.live.com/

· When they send me email from Hotmail

· When they revisit my Windows Live Profile

Challenges with Web Activities

There have been dual large hurdles with this simple polling indication of RSS 2.0 or Atom:

1. We need to rise a law mapping for any partner

2. Each partner needs to have usually a singular wake up sort or they need a approach to promulgate what sort of wake up any RSS 2.0 <item> or Atom <entry> is.

The rising Activity Streams open customary comes in to assistance compromise both of these problems.

How Activity Streams Helps

Activity Streams helps to residence both of a upon top of issues. First, instead of carrying to do a law mapping for most each Web Activities partner, with an open customary similar to Activity Streams, we can build a singular mapping which can be used by mixed partners.

Second, Activity Streams includes <activity:verb> as well as <activity:object-type> elements so we can brand which a singular <entry> is a standing refurbish as well as an additional is a blog entry. Thus, services which have mixed wake up sorts (like MySpace) can have a singular feed which includes photos, status, blogs, music, as well as more.

MySpace Example

Let me uncover we an e.g. with MySpace.

On MySpace, I’ve left as well as uploaded a little photos as well as created a blog entry. You can see these upon my MySpace profile:

(from: http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms)

If we sanction it, MySpace will share an XML feed of my activities which uses a Activity Streams elements:

<entry>

        <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/activity/473185983/BlogAdd/473185983/509685053</id>

        <title type=”text”>Tess Ting posted a brand brand brand brand brand brand new blog entry: My Thoughts upon a Health Care Debate</title>

        <published>2009-09-11T14:54:33Z</published>

        <updated>2009-09-11T14:54:33Z</updated>

        <author>

            <name>Tess Ting</name>

            <uri>http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms</uri>

        </author>

        <link rel=”icon” type=”image/gif” href=”http://x.myspacecdn.com/modules/common/static/img/blog.gif”/>

        <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&amp;friendId=473185983″/>

        <category term=”BlogAdd” label=”BlogAdd” scheme=”http://activities.myspace.com/schema/1.0/”/>

        <content type=”xhtml”>…</content>

        <sx:sync id=”tag:myspace.com,2009:/activity/473185983/BlogAdd/473185983/509685053″>

            <sx:history sequence=”1″ when=”2009-09-11 14:54:33Z”/>

        </sx:sync>

        <activity:actor>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Person/473185983</id>

            <title>Tess Ting</title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms”/>

            <link rel=”avatar” type=”image/jpeg” href=”http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/75/s_94cbd2c0ed5e4ef0a4bc02a10aecc011.jpg”/>

        </activity:actor>

        <activity:object>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/blog-entry</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Blog_Entry/473185983/509685053</id>

            <title>My Thoughts upon a Health Care Debate</title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendId=473185983&amp;blogId=509685053″/>

        </activity:object>

        <activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb>

    </entry>

    <entry>

        <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/activity/473185983/PhotoAdd/855905/9132545</id>

        <title type=”text”>Tess Ting combined a brand brand brand brand brand brand new print to a My Photos album.</title>

        <published>2009-09-11T14:50:50Z</published>

        <updated>2009-09-11T14:50:50Z</updated>

        <author>

            <name>Tess Ting</name>

            <uri>http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms</uri>

        </author>

        <link rel=”icon” type=”image/gif” href=”http://x.myspacecdn.com/modules/common/static/img/photo.gif”/>

        <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&amp;friendID=473185983&amp;albumID=855905&amp;imageID=9132545″/>

        <category term=”PhotoAdd” label=”PhotoAdd” scheme=”http://activities.myspace.com/schema/1.0/”/>

        <content type=”xhtml”>…</content>

        <sx:sync id=”tag:myspace.com,2009:/activity/473185983/PhotoAdd/855905/9132545″>

            <sx:history sequence=”1″ when=”2009-09-11 14:50:50Z”/>

        </sx:sync>

        <activity:actor>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Person/473185983</id>

            <title>Tess Ting</title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms”/>

            <link rel=”avatar” type=”image/jpeg” href=”http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/75/s_94cbd2c0ed5e4ef0a4bc02a10aecc011.jpg”/>

        </activity:actor>

        <activity:target>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/photo-album</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Photo_Album/855905</id>

            <title>My Photos</title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&amp;friendID=473185983&amp;albumId=855905″/>

        </activity:target>

        <activity:object>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/photo</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Photo/855905/9132545</id>

            <title>

            </title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&amp;friendID=473185983&amp;albumID=855905&amp;imageID=9132545″/>

            <link rel=”preview” type=”image/jpeg” href=”http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/14/s_cb0b48037818485bb99d521a4051ed2a.jpg”/>

        </activity:object>

        <activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb>

    </entry>

    <entry>

        <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/activity/473185983/PhotoAdd/855905/9132542</id>

        <title type=”text”>Tess Ting combined a brand brand brand brand brand brand new print to a My Photos album.</title>

        <published>2009-09-11T14:50:47Z</published>

        <updated>2009-09-11T14:50:47Z</updated>

        <author>

            <name>Tess Ting</name>

            <uri>http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms</uri>

        </author>

        <link rel=”icon” type=”image/gif” href=”http://x.myspacecdn.com/modules/common/static/img/photo.gif”/>

        <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&amp;friendID=473185983&amp;albumID=855905&amp;imageID=9132542″/>

        <category term=”PhotoAdd” label=”PhotoAdd” scheme=”http://activities.myspace.com/schema/1.0/”/>

        <content type=”xhtml”>…</content>

        <sx:sync id=”tag:myspace.com,2009:/activity/473185983/PhotoAdd/855905/9132542″>

            <sx:history sequence=”1″ when=”2009-09-11 14:50:47Z”/>

        </sx:sync>

        <activity:actor>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Person/473185983</id>

            <title>Tess Ting</title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://www.myspace.com/tesstingms”/>

            <link rel=”avatar” type=”image/jpeg” href=”http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/75/s_94cbd2c0ed5e4ef0a4bc02a10aecc011.jpg”/>

        </activity:actor>

        <activity:target>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/photo-album</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Photo_Album/855905</id>

            <title>My Photos</title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&amp;friendID=473185983&amp;albumId=855905″/>

        </activity:target>

        <activity:object>

            <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/photo</activity:object-type>

            <id>tag:myspace.com,2009:/Photo/855905/9132542</id>

            <title>

            </title>

            <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” href=”http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&amp;friendID=473185983&amp;albumID=855905&amp;imageID=9132542″/>

            <link rel=”preview” type=”image/jpeg” href=”http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/22/s_e15bb4f34a324a9fbc4c23d518230ff6.jpg”/>

        </activity:object>

        <activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb>

    </entry>

(The upon top of e.g. XML is of a blog entrance as well as dual photos. MySpace supports a ton some-more wake up sorts as well as they have good support upon this upon their developer wiki: http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Standards_for_Activity_Streams. The Windows Live web wake up formation includes these MySpace activities: posting a blog entries, posting forum topics, updating status, posting photos, removing tagged in a photo, posting a song, adding a form song, adding a form video, as well as RSVP’ing approbation to an event.)

Now, if I’ve continuous a MySpace Web Activity in Windows Live: http://profile.live.com/WebActivities/add.aspx?AppID=1140860417, Windows Live will intermittently check my Activity Stream XML feed from MySpace as well as when there have been brand brand brand brand brand brand new entries, Windows Live will tell these brand brand brand brand brand brand new MySpace activities to my Windows Live Profile:

(from: http://cid-e16138db6f261cbd.profile.live.com/)

Reading More

If you’re meddlesome in guidance some-more about Activity Streams, we should feel giveaway to revisit a operative group’s website: http://www.ActivityStrea.ms/ as well as a group’s wiki: http://wiki.ActivityStrea.ms/.

If you’re meddlesome in building some-more with Windows Live, I’d inspire we to begin during http://dev.live.com/ as well as http://msdn.microsoft.com/.

Thanks really most for celebration of a mass all of a approach by as well as I’m seeking brazen to operative with some-more of we to capacitate a mutual users to share their activities with their friends opposite a web. All a best—

–Rob Dolin

Engineer, Windows Live group

http://robdolin.spaces.live.com/

P.S. we wish to magnify a personal appreciate we to Monica Keller as well as a folks upon a MySpace Engineering group who were good to work with.

Angus Logan here from the Live Services team, as well as we am starting to get flattering vehement about the SXSW Conference entrance up in Mar 2010. One of the good things about the discussion is which we get to confirm what we wish to see there. It is up to the assembly to opinion for what sessions as well as calm they would like. Simple unequivocally - as well as good - the many renouned sessions get picked for the conference. There have been the little sessions we consider have been flattering interesting, as well as we can check them all out upon my personal blog as well as opinion for them. To give we the ambience of what sessions demeanour engaging (among others):

Web Mail - Is There Room Left to Innovate?

The Stream has turn the tidal wave.

Social Networking Interop.

Get some-more sum upon the sessions upon Angus Logan’s blog. Voting is about to hang up as well as ends upon Friday, so get your opinion on! Looking brazen to the good SXSW Conference in 2010. See we there!

Yesterday a WLID guys common some engaging things they learned from their OpenID CTP. CTPs have been mostly used to get feedback from developers, countenance ideas, and/or scold a march of an effort. Sometimes they have been even used to infer a feature/service is economically viable. Jorgen supposing an refurbish upon a destiny of Windows Live ID’s Open ID efforts:

Currently, you do not have a report which you can publicly share for when you will recover full Production await of OpenID for Windows Live ID users, though rest positive which you have been operative actively to yield OpenID functionality to all of a 500+ million Windows Live ID users!

In further to mixed entry-points, as well as being means to insist singular vs. immobile identifiers to finish users - a categorical plea was aliasing:

In a CTP, Windows Live ID users were compulsory to emanate an OpenID alias (such as “http://openid.live.com/john“) trustworthy to their account, as well as afterwards to make use of which alias not only during a OpenID relying celebration site, though additionally as a proceed to brand themselves to a Windows Live ID OP. When nearing during a OP sign-in screen, users were compulsory to come in their OpenID alias (instead of their normal Windows Live ID user name) and a cue (or a single of their alternative compared credentials, such as an Information Card) from their categorical Windows Live ID account.

We had envisaged which regulating an alias for OpenID sign-in could yield a little subdivision of a dual temperament networks. However, a usability indication for this proceed has incited out to be unfeasible and/or only solid treacherous to users!

Read some-more about it along with a alternative lessons.

Hi Everyone,

I longed for to give you a little critical updates upon a developer services as you hope for for a subsequent recover of Windows Live. We have been focused upon creation a subsequent recover of Windows Live a really most suitable for you. Our prophesy is to yield you with deeper entrance to a some-more than 500M Windows Live users as good as a some-more unchanging programming interface for both a services as good as controls. We wish to have it as easy as probable to devour as good as have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of Windows Live capabilities in your solutions.

At a Professional Developer Conference 2008, you gave a developer village entrance to a technical preview of a Live Framework. The Live Framework is core to a prophesy of upon condition which you with a unchanging programming interface. Now you have been operative to confederate existent services, controls as good as a Live Framework in to a subsequent recover of Windows Live. Your feedback continues to assistance us set up a most suitable probable offerings for Windows Live users, for you as good as for your customers.

There will be a little changes to services as good as controls you might have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of today, in sold a Live Framework CTP, creation them taken starting Sep 8^th. These changes might start you as good as your growth work as good as you wish to safeguard which you take suitable movement to secure your work as good as have adjustments to existent implementations of a influenced services.

Starting Sep 8^th, 2009, a following services will be unavailable:

• Live Framework CTP (Services, SDK & Tools)
  The Live Framework will be integrated in to a subsequent recover of Windows Live. Stay tuned to dev.live.com for some-more sum in a future.
• Contacts Control (JavaScript)
  As an alternative, greatfully have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of a UI Controls from Messenger Web Toolkit.
• CTP Tools/ASP.NET Controls (Contacts, MessengerChat, IDLoginStatus, IDLoginView, SilverlightStreaming)
  As alternatives use:
  • The UI Controls from Messenger Web Toolkit for Contacts as good as Messenger Chat
  • The Windows Live ID Web Authentication Service to reinstate a IDLoginStatus Control

If you have been a Live Framework record preview user, you ask you to greatfully download any interpretation and/or formula from a have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of before to Sep 8^th as good as mislay your inclination from a service. If you have been regulating any of a controls, you ask which you greatfully mislay them from your site before to Sep 8^th. For some-more sum see a Q&A during a bottom of this post.

There’s additionally a little updates upon a destiny of a Bing ASP.NET Map Control CTP (formerly Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control CTP); to sense more, greatfully revisit the Bing Maps Blog.

Please note which Live Mesh will go upon to sojourn accessible to finish users as good as is not affected.

Thanks again to everybody for your appearance as good as feedback. Stay tuned to this space for updates as good as some-more sum upon a height capabilities of a subsequent recover of Windows Live.

Q&A

Q: I’m a user of a Live Framework CTP, do you need to do anything before to a Live Framework CTP being taken offline?
A: Microsoft asks which if you have any interpretation and/or codebase/solutions regulating in a Live Framework CTP which you greatfully pierce it to a internal hard-drive. If you have multiform inclination which have been “claimed” as partial of your Live Framework CTP account, you ask which you greatfully mislay any of these devices. To do this, go to any device which you have as partial of your Live Framework CTP service, click a Start Menu, afterwards Control Panel, afterwards Add/Remove programs, name Live Framework CTP, as good as uninstall. This will mislay your device from a Live Framework, as good as keep any files and/or folders you had synchronized upon a device itself.

Q: Will you still be means to entrance my Live Framework CTP solutions after this preview is taken offline?
A: No.

Q: Will Microsoft keep any interpretation and/or solutions which have been now accessible upon a Live Framework CTP?
A: Microsoft will not keep any interpretation and/or solutions which have been a partial of a Live Framework CTP offering.

Q: What is becoming different in a Live Services developer portal (live.azure.com)?

A: The capability to emanate Live Framework-enabled web sites as good as Mesh-enabled web applications will be removed.  It will not be probable to revise a settings of Live Framework-enabled web sites as good as Mesh-enabled web applications as good as Analytics since these applications won’t be accessible any longer.  Live Framework CTP tokens will no longer be stream as good as can be discarded.

Q: What will occur to my Live Framework-enabled web sites as good as Mesh-enabled web focus Application IDs?

A: Your Live Framework-enabled web sites as good as Mesh-enabled web focus Application IDs will get re-imported a subsequent time you record in to a portal after a CTP discontinuation. You can possibly have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of these Application IDs to bond to a Live Services Existing APIs or undo them.

Q: What will occur to my web site if you am regulating a Contacts Control?

A: Starting Sep 8 a contacts carry out will describe upon your site with an blunder message. Users of your web site will see a following statement: “This carry out is no longer supported, greatfully hit your site director for some-more information.” Starting Sep 8 a carry out will no longer be accessible or render.

Q: What can you have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of in lieu of a Live Framework Contacts resource?

A: You can still have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of a Windows Live
Contacts API Beta.

Q: What can you have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of in lieu of a Contacts Control?

A: You can have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of a contacts picker control which is partial of a Windows Live Messenger Toolkit.

Q: Will a permissions postulated to my site by users for accessing contacts interpretation be lost?

A: Yes. Users of your web site will have to go by a Contact Picker control’s accede flows to reinstate entrance to their contacts interpretation from you site.

Q: What will occur to my site if you am regulating a ASP.NET server controls from Windows Live Tools?

A: The ASP.NET carry out will keep operative though you have been no longer ancillary it starting forward. If you have been regulating it in multiple with a Contacts Control afterwards a Contacts Control will stop operative upon Sep 8 (see upon top of for some-more details). All alternative underlying controls (ID Login, Messenger, Silverlight, as good as VE Maps) will go upon to work.

Q: Are a Silverlight Streaming Services being dropped or only a jacket ASP.NET controls?

A: Only a controls which hang a Silverlight Streaming Service will be discontinued.

Q: What can you have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of in lieu of IDLoginStatus as good as IDLoginView Control?

A: You can have have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of of Windows Live ID Web Authentication service. Only IDLoginStatus as good as IDLoginView carry out is being discontinued.

Q: What will occur to a Windows Live Web Role template for Windows Azure?

A: The template is no longer upheld as good as will not work with a stream chronicle of Windows Azure Tools.

Q; By Microsoft receiving a Live Framework CTP offline does this meant which my LiveID comment additionally will be unavailable?
A: You can go upon to have have make have make have make have make make make use of of of of of of of of of of of your LiveID comment to entrance a alternative Windows Live services you caring about, together with a Live Mesh beta.

Q: If you wish to stay sensitive upon updates per Live Framework, where should you go?

A: Visit http://dev.live.com to stay up to date with Live Framework.

Q: What purpose do developers fool around in a destiny growth of Mesh technologies?

A: This is an sparkling tour for all of us as good as your joining as good as feedback helps us set up a most suitable probable offerings for a business as good as for you. Our joining to a good developer village is stronger than ever, as good as you have been seeking brazen conference some-more of your feedback in a future.

Imagine a good consumer knowledge that provides visual
search as well as a capability to share photos with your friends around IM – that is what Photobucket landed this week by regulating Silverlight to emanate a abounding visible search
and mixing it with Windows Live
Messenger to have it social. Photobucket
visual search is a good e.g. of how a wake up of acid for
images can be incited in to a abounding as well as constrained amicable experience, receiving full
advantage of a single of a many drawn out amicable pity behaviors with Windows
Live Messenger. Photobucket finished use
of a Windows Live
Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls that provides a skinable as well as flexible
way to correlate with a 320+ million people who make use of Windows Live Messenger
monthly. The UI controls can be simply integrated (see Interactive SDK) in web sites
and creates a lot of a complicated light (coding JavaScript) usually compulsory if you
want a entirely law experience. To get some-more in-depth
details of how a doing was finished see Angus
Logan’s blogpost.

Join a Windows Live Messenger group to sense how to confederate Messenger capabilities in to your Web site. The Windows Live Messenger Hackathon takes place upon May 27, 2009 during Microsoft’s offices upon 835 Market St in San Francisco - really cold digs only around a dilemma from a Moscone Conference Center.

What’s in it for me?

1. Get a State of a Nation from a amicable media guru (TBA)
2. Build a web app which uses Messenger APIs with a Messenger Devs
3. Prizes for many appropriate implementations - Xbox 360, Zunes, Microsoft Hardware up for grabs!
4. Oh yeah, as well as we have drink as well as Pizza

When is it? (27th May 2009)

5:30 - 6:00pm: Arrival, Beers, Pizza

6:00 - 6:20pm: Social Media: State of a Nation from amicable media guru (TBA)

6:20 - 6:40pm: Messenger Library High Level

6:40 - 7:00pm: Chill, Network, Beer, Pizza (Biz Guys can prowl off)

7:00 - 7:30pm: Messenger Library Deeper Dive

7:30 - 10:00pm: Hackathon - let’s code!

Who should attend?

• CxO - for a state of a republic as well as networking
• Developers - for a hackathon
• Everyone - for a drink as well as pizza!

What do we need to bring?

Bring your codebase for a web app (if we have one) upon your laptop so we can work together with a Messenger experts from Windows Live to penetrate present messaging in to your site!

No web app? Don’t be concerned we can bucket a representation site with formula onto your laptop instead.

Some Inspiration

Here’s James Senior Esq. to discuss it we some-more about a eventuality as well as yield a little examples of things we can set up with a Messenger Web Toolkit.

Video: Live Services Hackathon

And here is a video by Angus Logan, demo’ing even some-more functionality from a Messenger Web Toolkit:

A bit of credentials upon Live Messenger:

We won’t gimlet we with as well many selling fluff, though we should know which Windows Live Messenger is a world’s many renouned IM network with over 320m users as well as we’ve non-stop up a APIs so which web applications can confederate with a use to yield cold practice for their users.  To find out some-more about a Messenger APIs, check out http://dev.live.com/messenger

Dare Obasanjo here, from a Live Services Program Management team. I’d similar to to speak a bit about a work you have been you do to enlarge interoperability opposite a “Social Web.”

The tenure The Social Web has been increasingly used to report a climb of a Web as a approach for people to interact, promulgate as well as share with any alternative regulating a World Wide Web. Experiences which were once unique such as celebration of a mass headlines or browsing one’s print albums have right away been finished some-more amicable by sites such as Digg as well as Flickr. With so many Web sites charity amicable functionality, it has turn increasingly critical for people to be means to not usually be means to bond as well as share with their friends upon a singular Web site though additionally to take these relations as well as activities with them wherever they go upon a Web.

With a new refurbish to Windows Live, you have been stability with a prophesy of enabling a 500 million business to share as well as bond with a people they caring about in any case of what services they use. Our business can right away entice their contacts from MySpace (the largest U.S. amicable networking site) as well as Hi5 to stick upon them upon Windows Live in a protected demeanour but carrying to review to regulating a the cue anti-pattern. These sites stick upon Facebook as well as LinkedIn as amicable networks from which people can import their amicable graph or crony list in to Windows Live.

In further to interoperating with amicable networks to overpass relations opposite a Web, you have been additionally regularly operative upon enabling business to share a calm they have been find engaging or activities they have been participating in from all over a Web with their friends who make make use of of Windows Live services similar to Hotmail as well as Messenger. Customers of Windows Live can right away add activities from over thirty opposite online services to their Windows Live form together with amicable networking sites similar to Facebook, print pity sites similar to Smugmug & Photobucket, amicable song sites similar to last.fm & Pandora, amicable bookmarking sites similar to Digg & Stumbleupon as well as many more.

We have been additionally happy to make known currently which in a entrance months, MySpace customers will be means to share activities as well as updates from MySpace with their Windows Live network.

Below is a screenshot of a little of a updates you competence find upon my form upon Windows Live 

These new announcements move us a single step closer to a Social Web where interoperability is a normal instead of a exception. One of a many sparkling things about a new recover is how many of a behind-the-scene formation is finished regulating village driven technologies such as a Atom syndication format, Atom Activity Extensions, OAuth, as well as Portable Contacts. These village driven technologies have been relocating to safeguard which a Social Web is a web of companion as well as interoperable web sites, not a set of competing walled gardens desperately clutching to patron interpretation in an try to invent Lock-In 2.0 

As you demeanour towards a future, you hold which a aforementioned standards around hit exchange, amicable wake up streams as well as authorisation have been only a initial steps. When you demeanour during all a capabilities opposite a Web landscape it is transparent which there have been scenarios which have been still utterly damaged due to miss of interoperability opposite assorted amicable websites. You can design some-more from Windows Live when it comes to interoperability as well as a Social Web.

Just watch this space.

Hey, Angus Logan here, I’m during Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco - there is a good vibe as well as lots of action. I’ve been spending time with as well as guidance a ton from a little of a open smoke-stack crew, Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, as well as Chris Messina. We’ve been articulate about a technology, adoption, as well as when Microsoft (we) will hurl a preview Open ID as well as Portable Contacts endpoints in to prolongation (nothing to have known right now).

Microsoft is a proponent of open standards by a work in a Open ID substructure as well as a Open Web Foundation. As these open specifications go upon to mature, services such as RPX have been good since they yield a stepping mill for developers.

I’m vehement to see a announcement that RPX right away consumes Windows Live IDs.

RPX delivers both user knowledge for temperament provider preference as well as a interpretation covering in between most exclusive as well as standardised protocols used by identity/resource providers.

End-users can outlay their time in so most places upon a web. The conflict for courtesy is harder than ever. The downside of carrying vast preference is a taxation of signing in as well as revelation websites about yourself. RPX creates it probable to pointer in regulating a single of a most identities a chairman already has - this includes authentication as well as form report (first name, final name, etc.)

Web site owners just need to go to www.rpxnow.com as well as emanate an account. As finish user interpretation is being common we need to emanate a Windows Live App ID as well as we discuss it RPX a sum of your app ID as well as mention a remoteness statement. You can additionally have use of a authentication page co-branding to have a knowledge rather smoother for your end-users. After this we exercise a little UI upon your website, as well as we should see aloft end-user compensation as well as acclimatisation for signing in as well as form information.

The Live Services APIs used have been Windows Live ID Web Authentication as well as a Windows Live Contact API. Web Authentication is a single of a options third parties have for apropos a relying celebration of a Windows Live ID temperament provider/Microsoft association gateway. It is built regulating customary web technologies as well as techniques such as browser formed redirects/form posts.  The Windows Live Contact API in this box is being used as a form API as it exposes a “owner record” of a Windows Live user. To benefit accede to a form & residence book Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication (DelAuth) was used. DelAuth provides a couple of singular controls for users to name sure objects to be shared, as well as a generation of a access.

Below have been a little screenshots from www.ladygaga.com that uses RPX:

(Windows Live ID, pointer in as well as commission things you’ve all seen before)

Hey - Angus Logan here, behind from MIX09 in Las Vegas. We had the whopping 8 sessions about identity/safety, messaging as good as the Live Framework during MIX - next have been links to all of the sessions about Live Services, which you can perspective online.

Overview of Sessions

Messaging / Presence : On Wednesday we announced the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, which is the set of controls as good as libraries which capacitate you to bond Windows Live Messenger users as good as their friends with users of your Web site.

• Keiji Kanazawa gave an general outlook of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit
• Chris Parker showed 5 of the tip scenarios you identified for the site to turn some-more amicable & gummy by being enabled with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit.
• Angus’s pick! Jordan Snyder from Effective UI common her practice in integrating the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit in to the sharp Silverlight focus for the vital print pity web site (more headlines entrance soon.)

Identity & Safety : Microsoft is in the singular upon all sides to be regulating the single of the largest services in the world, with over 500 million people signing in each month.

• Jorgen Thelin gave an general outlook of the opposite aspects of the Live Identity Service as good as how you have been creation it accessible for web developers, companies which sell solutions as good as additionally organizations which wish to adopt clouded cover services.
• Angus’s the one preferred :: John Scarrow talks about the things you need to consider about when regulating the large tall scale make use of in conditions of people abusing your service. “the terrorists have been no longer in their camps in the desert, they have been relocating in to unit buildings (i.e. your web site)”

Live Framework – you denounced the Live Framework during PDC as good as have been operative divided receiving feedback, hardening as good as elaborating it.

• Ori Amiga gave an general outlook of the Live Framework all up
• Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie went low upon what meshifying the web app unequivocally equates to
• Angus’s pick! Gregory Renard from Wygwam had the many fun event as good as showed the good brand brand brand brand new apparatus the Live Framework Explorer for Visual Studio.

Full list of sessions with links

Identity & Safety
	Protecting Online Identities Learn how Microsoft provides the operation of temperament solutions for assisting developers some-more simply set up seamless user practice which embody Federation, Authentication, UX Customization, Open Standards, Open ID as good as more.
	Protecting Against Internet Service Abuse Come listen to how Microsoft protects calm as good as identities as servers as good as users turn some-more distributed worldwide.
Messaging & Presence
	<3 the New Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for Social Websites See how to supplement IM to the site with the Windows Live Messenger Library as good as UI Controls, as good as how to set up brand brand brand brand new relations around calm with Messenger amicable capabilities. Also listen to how tip sites as good as marketers have been regulating the amicable connectors of Windows Live users to grow as good as …
	Five Killer Scenarios for the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit Come sense how to have your site some-more enchanting with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit.
	A Shot of Windows Live Messenger as good as the Pint of Microsoft Silverlight Learn how to supplement present stickiness as good as expostulate brand brand brand brand new users to the Web site whilst uncovering the dark amicable network within. Hear how Effective UI fast as good as simply combined these capabilities to the customers’ existent Microsoft Silverlight projects regulating the Windows Live Messenger …
Live Framework
	Live Framework as good as Mesh Services: Live Services for Developers Learn about the Live Framework together with brand brand brand brand new as good as destiny services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, as good as collection which capacitate your Web, service, or customer applications to access, store, as good as synchronize user interpretation with Live Services, acquire assembly analytics data, as good as more.
	Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Come sense how to magnify your existent Web applications as good as get them to live as good as inhale inside of Live Mesh. See how Mesh-enabled Web applications can be accessed from anywhere by the Web browser as good as run locally (and offline) upon the user’s desktop. Also see how Web …
	Lighting Up Web as good as Client Applications with Microsoft Live Services Learn how to make use of Live Services to light up abounding customer applications or to magnify Web applications to the desktop. See how to simply entrance Live Framework to furnish as good as devour interpretation which automatically syncs with the clouded cover as good as the inclination in the user’s digital life.