Live Services Overview

Live Services Overview

• Dr Neil Roodyn
• N-Squared.com

Live Services

• Synchronising Life
• Monday 8 Dec 2008 @ 9am
• Four Points by Sheraton

The Islands in our digital lives

• People
• Devices
• Apps
• Data Synchronization
• = Bringing all this together

What are we seeing?

• People share with other people
• People have multiple devices
• Software + Services (both cloud and client)
• Hard to do
• Technology + Audience

Live Services

• Let the numbers speak for themselves
• Millions of users; Billions of Authentications; Petabytes of data
• 460+M Live ID logins

Windows Live

• Hotmail
• ID
• Messenger
• Live Search
• Spaces
• Alerts

Service APIs

• REST: SilverLight Streaming; Live Contacts
• WebDAV: Spaces & Photos
• JSON: IM & Presence
• SOAP: Live Alerts, Virtual Earth, Live Search, Live ID
• => Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio (Web Controls)

Microsoft Azure Services Platform

• Live Services
• .NET Services
• SQL Services
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services
• Microsoft SharePoint Services

Live Services with Live Framework

• Mesh-enabled Web Applications
• Build and deploy to a Live Dev Site

How will I consume these services?

• The Live Framework (Livefx*) is the uniform way for programming live services from a variety of platforms…

Live Framework gives developers

• Cloud / Client / Device search
• Access to user-data
• Application ecosystem
• Easy to get started

Live Framework is composed of:

• Live Operating Environment (LOE)
• Programming Model