By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 31 December 2007
 Being the last day of 2007 and all, I thought I'd do a recap on the ViaWindowsLive community site. Since we launched the Beta site on September 7, we've had 27 articles sumbitted by you..keep them coming.
Article Contributions
- John O'Brien (7)
- Bronwen Zande (4)
- Derek Chan (3)
- Daniel Wissa (2)
- Vasudev Gurumurthy (2)
- Beth Massi (1)
- Robert McGrath(1)
- Gfw (1)
- Brian Peek (1)
- Darren Neimke (1)
- Marco Anastasi (1)
- Mike McDougall (1)
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Came across "Agent M" today on this blog. "Agent M" is a Windows Live Agent to help it's banking customers with enquiries, faqs etc. If you want to have a play with it just add m.m2u@maybank.com.my to you Live Messenger friends list and start asking questions etc.
I love seeing new examples of agets. I've played with smarterchild and encarta for a few years now..they can be very addictive...and earlier this year wrote a Live Agent for a demo. Improving and extending the words/phrases/questions etc. can be very addictive.
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
 Bored this Christmas and looking for something cool to play with? How about playing with some very new code that combines Silverlight and Windows Live Services. If you haven't played with it you should:
http://tafiti.mslivelabs.com/
And the big announcment today is the source code is available for you sink your teeth into:
http://codeplex.com/WLQuickApps
So if you keen to see what Silverlight and Windows Live Services are all about and have a few spare hours over the break I highly recommend checking this out. I'm sure it will generate some ideas for you in 2008.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Head over to Angus's blog to see some goss on the new Quick App for Live Services that's about to be released. This Quick App is the demo we built for the Steve Ballmer keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2007.
There's a couple of powerpoint clickthroughs if you want to see some of the highlights of the app:
Contoso ISV - 3 - Sharing with Friends.pptx
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 12 November 2007
I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial. We've now added Hobart and Melbourne to the list.
The blurb for our talk is:
SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth
In this visually interactive talk we explore the new spatial data types, functions and indexes directly related to the real world using the interactive browser based Virtual Earth control. We focus on the new Geography data type providing an overview of the new functionality as directly applied to mapping. This includes the storage of points, polylines and polygons as well as real world tasks like effective rendering to the map, geofencing and proximity searches. We explore the power of union and buffering. Finally we examine the new index specifically built for fast spatial lookup.
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 8 November 2007
After playing with the Web IM Control and Presence API yesterday, I thought to myself..hey..it'd be cool for ppl to ask me questions about my articles.
So i've put my presence next to my name on my articles on our seite e.g. http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Articles/MessengerIMControlPresence/tabid/123/Default.aspx. If I'm online, you can double click the icon and it will pop up the Windows IM control and you can talk to me..cool hey.
I've also put this on my articles on ViaWindowsLive see examples here: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles.aspx. If anyone who has al ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
For those interested in the new IM Control and Presence API there is a new article on ViaWindowsLive
Messenger IM Control & Presence API Introduction - This article gives a brief introduction to the Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API. It provides a walkthrough of how to setup, install and use the control from both an owner and a vistor user perspective.
Anyone wanting to contribute articles to the site should goto the < ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Many of you may have already seen Angus's blog and the introduction of a web IM/Presence control on the left side. For those who haven't...check it out :)
So for anyone who uses Messenger and has thought to themself.."gee, it'd be really handy to be able to have a messenger control on my site so people can talk to me without having Messenger", your wishes have been granted.
I'll be doing an article about setting this up in the next couple of days. ...
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