Developing on the Windows Live Platform. Mike Ormond Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd

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1 Developing on the Windows Live Platform Mike Ormond Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd

2 Agenda Live Search Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

3 Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of.net for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences & rich interactive applications for the Web.

4 Timeline & Packaging Platforms & Browsers (Mirosoft support) Novell Support (Moonlight) IE 6.0+ FireFox 1.5+ Safari 2.0 FireFox Konqueror Opera Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000* Mac OS X Linux (various distros) Timeline V1.0 Released September 2007, V1.1 in Alpha (timing and some functionality TBD) Moonlight timing TBD (Novell) Packaging Browser plug-in, little dependency on other s/w

5 Silverlight V1.0 and V1.1 Silverlight V1.1 Silverlight V1.0 V1.1 will add.net to V1.0 CoreCLR Independent subset of the.net Framework

6 A richer web with Silverlight

7 Silverlight Streaming Provides developers a free, scalability-on-demand solution for Silverlight Free, 4GB hosting and streaming You build the application, we deliver the scale High quality, differentiated, controllable user experience Complete API Programmability

8 Using Silverlight Streaming What can it host? Silverlight applications Content (video) for use in Silverlight apps Invoking Default (requires JavaScript) Special version of Silverlight.js Parameters move to manifest Iframe (no JavaScript) URL syntax

9 Packaging Content for SLS Single zip file archive (Video files restricted to 22MB) Add application manifest (manifest.xml) List of JavaScript files to load in order Set parameters (like Silverlight.createObject()) Add startup code to local page

10 Packaging Content for Silverlight Streaming

11 Expression Encoder Generates VC-1 (WMV) content Optimised for Silverlight Add leaders / trailers / watermarks / chapters / captions etc Output *.wmv file Complete Silverlight media player app Publish to Silverlight Streaming (plugin preview) Command line interface

12 Video & Expression Encoder

13 Silverlight Streaming API URL Credentials HTTP basic authentication (HTTPS required) Username = Account ID Password = Account Key File Set Group of files representing a Silverlight application Contained in a single zip archive Include a manifest (manifest.xml)

14 Silverlight Streaming API Operations PUT / POST Adds a file set Request body must be a file set (zip file) DELETE Deletes a file set GET Retrieves information specified by the URL Eg list of file sets, list of files in file set etc

15 Silverlight Streaming API

16 Windows Live Quick Apps (Beta) Free source code to build social networking sites Adventure Contoso Works Bicycle University Resorts Club Live ID associated with ASP.NET Profiles Virtual User Contacts Generated Earth API Video (Windows ContentLive Data) Spaces Virtual Accepting Earthfile uploads (via a form post) Dropping uploads into MSMQ Queue Silverlight Spaces Encoding Streaming using Expression (geo-sync'd) Encoder Expo Silverlight Uploading Streaming to Silverlight Streaming Playing videos from Silverlight Expo Streaming Map Point Web Service Contacts Control Spaces Photo Control Windows Live Alerts Virtual Earth

17 Considerations Cross domain issues Different domains = restricted access Use initialisation parameters (initparams) <iframe> Hosting HTML hosted / non-hosted structure differs Access to HTML DOM

18 initparams

19 Live Search

20 Adding Search On Your Site Live Search Box Fast Simple No code Live Search Web Service Flexible Powerful Unlocks Capabilities

21 Live Search Box Basic Search either web or specific site Advanced Web search plus optional Site Search (multiple sites) Search Macro Customisation Options

22 Live Search Box

23 Live Search Web Service SOAP API Get application ID Add Web Reference and play

24 The Live Search API String Query SearchRequest SourceRequest[] Requests String AppID String CultureInfo Source ResultFields... MSNSearchService.Search(SearchRequest) SearchResponse SourceResponse[] Responses Result []Results Source Total Offset

25 The Live Search API

26 Additional Resources Main Hub Silverlight Main Silverlight Site Silverlight Streaming Site Silverlight Streaming SDK Live Search Live Search Service Home Live Search Interactive SDK

27 MSDN in the UK Visit Newsletter Events Nugget Videos Blogs

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