Microsoft Live Services Jumpstart 2009

There was some boring marketing talk, but at least half of the presentations were
really informative and made me wanna go out and program some cool
applications ... which was possible because Microsoft had plenty
of notebooks prepared to try some of the hands-on labs yourself

And for those who directly want to start working with the Live Framework,
got two invitation codes for the Azure Service Platform CTP

Besides: Its a real bummer, that you are required to have Windows Server 2008 or Vista
installed in order to install the Windows Azure SDK - even if you just want to use
the JavaScript resources or the Live Resource Browser which come with the SDK


But all in all it was a good presentation, I planned to set up a Windows 2008 virtual machine
anyways and I am really looking forward to the things to come

Presenters

• James McCutcheon from N-Square Solutions
• Mike Shughrue from Microsoft

Topics

1. Live Services Overview
2. Technical Overview
3. Online Identity - Easing the pain of identity integration
4. Microsoft Federation Gateway Service
5. Communications - Messenger, Presence, Alerts and Activities
6. Virtual Earth
7. Microsoft Live Search 2.0
8. Live Framework / Live fx - Overview
9. Live fx - Resource Model
10. Live fx - Cloud APIs
11. Live Framework .NET API Kit
12. Mesh Enabled Web Applications

Hands-On Labs

• Windows Live ID Web Authentication
• Windows Live Messenger and Alerts
• Creating Virtual Earth Applications
• An Introduction to Windows Live Silverlight Streaming
• Working with Resource Model and Feeds
• Mesh-enabled Web App Basics
• Working with the Live Framework .NET Kit in C#
• Mesh Applications

Links

1. Live Services Jumpstart 2009: http://www.lsjumpstart.com
2. James McCutcheon's Blog: http://jamesmcc.wordpress.com/
3. Mövenpick Hotel Berlin: http://www.moevenpick-berlin.com/
4. Deutsche Kinemathek: http://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/
5. Neue Nationalgalerie: http://www.neue-nationalgalerie.de/
6. more pictures: http://picasaweb.google.de/andyk7/MicrosoftLiveServicesJumpstart2009Berlin#