Live in a Box

Project License Changed

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:43:22 GMT

Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

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kojikato — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:08:13 GMT

Project Description

A packaged experience of Windows Live technology, in a box.

By the way, please go to http://dev.live.com if something isn't covered well.
If you want to try liveinabox without the installation hassle, go to http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6683994 - now there's a virtual lab of an older version of liveinabox running there. We're reving so fast, it's difficult to keep up.

Windows Live is starting to look like an interesting platform :)

What's New

0.36 now released. The script references have been forwarded to controls.services.live.com. The try*control simple mashups have been updated to exercise the latest color changing features in the controls.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

We're web enthusiasts, and we find Windows Live to be interesting. We're somewhat related to it too:P
This project familiarizes you with the following, using a slew of sample applications which you can walk through in an hour - it's the fastest way to learn about Windows Live. After you've tried this project, please leave feedback. If you'd like to join this project as a web enthusiast, let us know. We're looking for enthusiasts who want to have fun!!

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
spaces APIs
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual

Some notes

The amount of incoming sample is starting to dwarf integration efforts ... we will be exploring other ways of packaging all these samples in a more agile manner (perhaps have multiple sln files packages in the MSI as opposed to the 1 sln model we currently have).

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

5/2 0.3 has been hotfixed, with 3 solution files instead of 1 - LiveBoxDE (for simple samples which only rely on asp.net), LiveBoxDEFx3 (for samples which rely on netfx3), LiveBoxDEID (for samples which rely on the Windows Live ID runtimes). This is expected to be uploaded tonight.
4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

CREATED RELEASE: 0.36 Alpha (Jul 09, 2007)

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:05:30 GMT

Replaced binding to controls.services.live.com.

Source code checked in

kojikato — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:52:52 GMT

removed WPF/E exercise - to avoid conflict with silverlight

Source code checked in

kojikato — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:50:44 GMT

0.36 alpha - updated URL references to controls.services.live.com

Project License Changed

Thu, 31 May 2007 23:22:28 GMT

Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

NEW POST: Confused

PatriceCalve — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:46:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm confused.

Let's say I'm a Web Application Developer and build web sites for fun. I'd like to use Windows Live to authenticate users on my site(s). Do I use Passport or Windows Live?

Passport SDK documentation on the MS web site talks about deprecated stuff, so I thought of Windows Live. However, Windows Live talk about "applications" as a general term and have winform samples/examples/screenshots.

Help please.

Pat

UPDATED WIKI: Home

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:41:09 GMT

Project Description

What's New

0.35 now released. I've added the travel journal sample application that was showed at MIX. There's actually a Windows Mobile 5 client application that goes with this ... i'll get this added as soon as I find some time.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
WPF/E
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual
spaces APIs

Some notes

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

5/2 0.3 has been hotfixed, with 3 solution files instead of 1 - LiveBoxDE (for simple samples which only rely on asp.net), LiveBoxDEFx3 (for samples which rely on netfx3), LiveBoxDEID (for samples which rely on the Windows Live ID runtimes). This is expected to be uploaded tonight.
4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:40:03 GMT

Project Description

What's New

0.35 now released. I've added the travel journal sample application that was showed at MIX. There's actually a Windows Mobile 5 client application that goes with this ... i'll get this added as soon as I find some time.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
WPF/E
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual
spaces APIs

Some notes

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:39:25 GMT

Project Description

What's New

0.35 now released. I've added the travel journal sample application that was showed at MIX. There's actually a Windows Mobile 5 client application that goes with this ... i'll get this added as soon as I find some time.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
WPF/E
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86974
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual
spaces APIs

Some notes

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 07:02:15 GMT

Project Description

What's New

0.35 now released. I've added the travel journal sample application that was showed at MIX. There's actually a Windows Mobile 5 client application that goes with this ... i'll get this added as soon as I find some time.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
WPF/E
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual
spaces APIs

Some notes

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:29:17 GMT

Project Description

A packaged experience of Windows Live technology, in a box.

By the way, please go to http://dev.live.com if something isn't covered well.

If you want to try liveinabox without the installation hassle, go to http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6683994 - now there's a virtual lab of an older version of liveinabox running there. We're reving so fast, it's difficult to keep up.

What's New

0.35 now released. I've added the travel journal sample application that was showed at MIX. There's actually a Windows Mobile 5 client application that goes with this ... i'll get this added as soon as I find some time.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
WPF/E
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual

Some notes

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

UPDATED RELEASE: 0.35 Alpha (May 06, 2007)

Mon, 07 May 2007 06:17:53 GMT

Added the travel journal sample showed at MIX07 which uses the Windows Live Spaces control, and Contacts control in conjunction.

Source code checked in

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:58:12 GMT

updated URL to idcrl download site

Source code checked in

kojikato — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:13:08 GMT

added traveljournal and updates to

Source code checked in

kojikato — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:48:35 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

kojikato — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:45:58 GMT

Project Description

A packaged experience of Windows Live technology, in a box.

By the way, please go to http://dev.live.com if something isn't covered well.

If you want to try liveinabox without the installation hassle, go to http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6683994 - now there's a virtual lab of an older version of liveinabox running there. We're reving so fast, it's difficult to keep up.

What's New

0.3 has been hotfixed, with 3 solution files instead of 1 - LiveBoxDE (for simple samples which only rely on asp.net), LiveBoxDEFx3 (for samples which rely on netfx3), LiveBoxDEID (for samples which rely on the Windows Live ID runtimes). This is expected to be uploaded tonight.

We've had a number of people asking to join liveinabox - there's a paper process that is currently being electronic-ized ... i'm waiting from the codeplex gods for the specific sample text i'm to paste into here. Sorry to keep people waiting. We'll get on this as soon as we enter May.

Project Home Page

search APIs
map APIs
contact APIs
WPF/E
Messenger activity APIs
web gadgets
Workflow available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client SDK available from http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347
a new technology from the Windows Live ID team that lets a web application authenticate a user easily
new article on how to use the upcoming Virtual Earth API ... this is in the exercise folder linked from the end of the manual

Some notes

Requirements

You will need IIS on your PC, but that's all you need to experience an assortment of Windows Live 'stuff'.
If you install the following, you will get additional lab exercises enabled:

ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en
Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347

You can also learn how to develop with the 'stuff' in easy exercises. Having a Visual Studio environment will make the editing experience better.

History

4/24 in preparation for MIX07 (http://visitmix.com) the Windows Live ID folks, and Virtual Earth folks offered some samples to include in liveinabox. Go check it out.
3/29 Mashupguy contributed a workflow sample. That's what jacked up the version from 0.1 to 0.2 - it's a cool way of orchestrating multiple web services together.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: This doesn't work on Vista!! (reported by panayak)

A: The MSI does work on vista - it's just that the Vista User Account Control gets in the way ... :( Hopefully (crossing fingers) VS2005 copes with this problem in their setup project soon (since that's what's used to build the MSI).
Here's what you need to do.
(0) make sure that you have the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. Please read ScottGu's blog for a more thorough coverage @ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/19/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Using-IIS7-on-Vista-with-VS-2005.aspx
(1) when you agree to the license for download, it raises a save or run dialog - save the MSI to your desktop
(2) after you've downloaded the MSI, go to Start | All Programs | Accessories and then right click on command prompt. Choose Run as administrator from the popup menu
(3) in the opened up command prompt go type \users\<your user name>\desktop\liveboxsetup.msi - this executes Windows Installer under the administrator context and gets you unblocked.
(4) let us know if this works - and sorry about the inconvenience

Q: How are you going to ensure the code quality (asked by Yousef)

A: It's not perfect today, but I (kojikato) will be policing all code changes to ensure there is no malicious content. We are being very careful on the people who we add as developers or coordinators (who have checkin rights). Developers and coordinators should contact kojikato when they want to check in something ... ideally we'd have automatic code scanners to ensure sufficient quality, but hey that's startrek

Q: I just want to look at the source!! (repoted by panayak)

A: It's not obvious but if you go to the source code tab, and click the down arrows, you get a zip snapshot at each stage of the source code. You can also browse into the source code by clicking browse from the source code tab.

Q: What'da you mean when you say 'related'?

A: I won't hide it, I work at Microsoft. Some of my partners in crime are related to Microsoft as well. But we're human and web enthusiasts before we are Microsoft.

Q: What 'stuff' is covered in this?

A: We're starting with search, maps, social apps, wpfe, activities, web gadgets, and workflow. We will continue to rev this based on suggestions and contributions from the 'enthusiasts'!

Q: How long will it take me to run thru the course?

A: It depends, but even 10 minutes in this project will be time well spent. Please try it, and let us know.

UPDATED RELEASE: 0.3 Alpha (Apr 24, 2007)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:41:26 GMT

Adding of Windows Live ID exercises. Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK available from http://connect.microsoft.com:80/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347 is used to create a winform blog client that talks Windows Live ID. A new Windows Live ID technology that makes it easy for a web application to do Windows Live ID authentication and retrieve an identifier for the current logged in user is demonstrated in an exercise. Last but not least, the code got slightly updated in light of the amnesia problem codeplex had recently.

UPDATED RELEASE: 0.3 Alpha (Apr 24, 2007)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:04:47 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: 0.3 Alpha (Apr 24, 2007)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:04:34 GMT

Adding of Windows Live ID exercises. Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK available from [url:http://connect.microsoft.com:80/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347] is used to create a winform blog client that talks Windows Live ID. A new Windows Live ID technology that makes it easy for a web application to do Windows Live ID authentication and retrieve an identifier for the current logged in user is demonstrated in an exercise. Last but not least, the code got slightly updated in light of the amnesia problem codeplex had recently.