The Windows Live Agents blog posted a couple of weeks back that a new version of the Platform and SDK was coming soon, and that day is seemingly upon us. In a blog entry that has just gone up on the WLA blog, the new SDK has been released. There have been strong hints as to what the SDK will now be from the documentation that has been on MSDN for a few weeks now, and it comes in the form of a Visual Studio Add-in, rather than its own IDE as it was when it was Colloquis.
Angus Logan has a good summary of the blog entry (it’s quite long), but the key thing to point out for Live Agent developers are that Microsoft “will be retiring the old standalone Colloquis SDK (versions 4.3 and previous) within 90 days of our 5.0 release.”
Further information:
Expect a further post on the Live Agents SDK, how to use it and build a simple Agent.
If you're a developer and interested in working with some cool technologies at a BBC hack day, then check out Mashed 08. Being held in London at the Alexandra Palace on June 21-22, this is the BBC's very own "Hack Day", allowing developers to get creative over the course of a weekend.
Microsoft is one of the partners (O'Reilly is another) and entrance is free for all registered participants. If you're interested then you might also like to know there will be Windows Live involvement, with some of us from LiveSide also in attendance. We want to see what cool things people can build with Windows Live, and hopefully we'll be showcasing some of the projects during and after the event.
The Microsoft tickets have just been made available - Register for them now as they will go extremely quickly!
Register for tickets UPDATE: Ticket allocation has closed and the event is now sold out.
In this article I will show you how to use a combination of free tools and services to produce and host a high quality panorama. You will render this using Silverlight2 and display it geo-referenced on Virtual Earth. The combination of hosted storage and services from Windows Live gives us a powerful Rich Internet Application from a basic HTML page. The tools and services you will use are:
The final result below is made from eight photos taken of the Story Bridge in Brisbane, Australia at 6am.
