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Mashed08 – Are You Going?

Last month we noted that the BBC and Microsoft will be running a UK Developer event taking place on June 21-22nd. Well, that time is upon us and I will be heading up to London tonight ready for it tomorrow …

Uploading videos using the Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder 2.

This article gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog using Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression …

Live Search Web Page Error Toolkit Released

Over at dev.live.com they have announced the release of the Web Page Error Toolkit which “allows you to display custom error messages with search results that generated from relevant keywords.” From the Live Search dev blog:

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The New Live Writer SDK

In my previous post, I mentioned that the Live Writer SDK had been updated as well as Live Writer itself. In this post I will show you how to build a couple of quick plugins that use the new …

BBC and Microsoft run UK developer event – Mashed

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 …

Windows Live Agents SDK Released

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 …

Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live

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 …

Live Mesh, From A Developer’s Side

With the release of Live Mesh and all that has been said about it (here and here), what’s in it for developers? Well Mesh is meant to be the platform that people can build upon, and we’re given …

Is Microsoft serious about gadgets?

If Silverlight 2 is Microsoft’s shining new addition to the family (and deservingly so) then gadgets, both Windows Vista Sidebar and web gadgets are the all but forgotten middle children. In this article I pose the question: Has Microsoft all …

Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 2

Hopefully you will have read and followed the code from the first part of this article. The first part covered most of base functionality including how to sign in, get the users details and get their contact list. What is …