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As I write I’m on my way home from the inaugural meeting of the UK Azure Net user group at Microsoft’s London offices. Speaker for the evening was Senior Director of Evangelism (or some similar poncy title) for Azure, James Conard, who did a good demo-heavy Azure Services Platform 101 for what was a very healthy 100+ turnout for an inaugural ...

Useful information emerged overnight for anyone that is using the Live Framework to build Mesh Enabled Web Applications. Using a simple registry hack it is now possible to run the Live Framework tech preview client and the Live Mesh beta client side-by-side on the same device. I’ve installed both on my development VM and everything seems to be ...

Lately I’ve been talking a lot about the Live Framework and showing some of its typical uses for Mesh-enabled web apps but I haven’t really dug into the code as much as I’d like to. Katrien De Graeve has written a great blog entry Live Framework – storing data in a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web application in 4 steps that shops just how ...

Over the past few weeks there has been a concerted effort within Conchango to increase the amount of knowledge sharing that occurs within the company which was all prompted by some discussions that took place at one of our very popular community days. Since then I’ve done two internal demos pertaining to the subject which I’m banging on about most ...

The Live Framework (aka LiveFX), part of the Azure Services Platform, has been available for almost two weeks now. In that time one of the least talked about features within LiveFX has been Resource Scripts however (perhaps because of my SQL Server background) its one of the topics that I find the most interesting and potentially most ...

  When we talk about Live Mesh as being something that be connected to programmatically we talk about the Live Operating Environment (or LOE for short). In a previous life this was actually called the MESH Operating Environment and that is why when you look in Task Manager, and you have the LOE developer client installed, you will see ...

When you add a folder to Live Mesh it is represented programmatically in the Live Operating Environment (LOE) as a MeshObject. When I first started prodding and poking at the Live Framework (aka LiveFX) I assumed that the Mesh was represented as a hierarchy of these MeshObjects i.e. Every subfolder was also represented as a MeshObject. Take the ...

Microsoft’s strategy for their Windows Live suite has drawn much criticism since its inception in November 2005 but of late the muddy waters have started to clear a little bit. Firstly we have had the latest beta releases of Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Photo Gallery (all downloadable from ...