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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 ...