The Windows Live Dev Platform

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The Windows Live Dev Platform

• Martin Parry
• Developer Platform Group
• Microsoft Ltd
• martin.parry_at_microsoft.com
• http//martinparry.com

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Agenda

• What is Windows Live?
• Authentication
• Maps
• Address Book
• Photos
• Windows Live Quick Apps
• Windows Live Desktop Apps

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What is Windows Live?

• Web Services
• Hotmail, Virtual Earth, LiveID, Spaces, etc.,
  etc.
• Client Applications
• Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, etc.
• A platform of components
• Your app can consume any/all services
• Features that would be hard to build yourself

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Terms of Use

• Based on Unique Users Per Month
• Apps with fewer than 1 Million UUs per month...
  Pay nothing
• Averaged over a 3 month period
• Services exposed through controls... Pay nothing
• Services in beta... Pay nothing
• Apps with more than 1 Million UUs per month...
• You have a choice...
• Pay 0.25 per UU per year, or
• Enter into revenue-sharing ad-funding agreement
  with Microsoft
• There are some exceptions...
• Search free up to 750,000 queries per month
• Virtual Earth free up to 3,000,000 map tiles per
  month

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Our Demo Site
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Authentication

• Windows Live ID Service
• Ok, its Passport, but now its different...
• Federated
• Can integrate with Windows CardSpace
• 300 Million users have a Windows Live ID
• App still has a Users database, but freed from
  storing a secret-per-user (now 1 per app)
• Are all Live IDs xxx_at_hotmail.com ?
• Managed vs. unmanaged members

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Windows Live ID Sign-in

• Theres a control actually an iframe
• Register your application at MS website
• Tell us your hostname, a secret, and a return URL
• You get a unique ID you embed it in your app
• Implement that page at the return URL
• Use your secret to decrypt the data returned
• Action, App Context, Security Token

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Windows Live ID
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Custom Domains

• Create Live IDs in your own domain
• You tell us the name of your domain
• ...and make some changes to your DNS records
• Use our website to manage accounts
• Or use the Custom Domains SDK
• Manage accounts programmatically

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Custom Domains APIs

• Create/Delete/Enum/Rename members
• Evict/Import unmanaged members
• Reset member password
• Convert between member name NetId
• Enum domains
• Get domain info

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Virtual Earth

• Online database of maps aerial photo data
• 17 Petabytes
• Powerful search
• linked to Windows Live Search
• Find businesses by location, type, etc.
• Includes route calculator for driving directions
• Birds-eye View

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Virtual Earth Map Control

• Javascript object model for maps/photos
• Full control over searching, route calc., etc.
• Can overlay your own information
• Can capture events raised by map interaction
• Just released version 6

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Virtual Earth Map Control
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Windows Live Contacts API

• Users can grant permission
• To a web application
• To access their Windows Live AddressBook
• The app requests read-only or read/write
• App uses RESTful model to access data, e.g.
• https//cumulus.services.live.com/
• demo_at_hotmail.com/
• LiveContacts/Contacts(1)/Emails(1)
• Implemented via Windows Live Data service

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Windows Live Data

• RESTful access to data in the Live platform
• Implements permission granting/revoking UX
• The user is in control
• Issues security tokens that apps can retain
• Once granted, permission is perpetual
• Until revoked

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Live Data Sequence of Events

• User must grant permission for this app to access
  datahttp//ux.cumulus.services.live.com/pgux/defa
  ult.aspx?...
• App receives authentication token via HTTP POST
• App accesses data via REST, supplying
  authentication token
• User can review list of permitted
  applicationshttp//ux.cumulus.services.live.com/p
  rux/default.aspx
• User can revoke permissions for specific
  applications

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Windows Live Contacts API
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Windows Live Spaces

• Social Networking Site
• Blogging, file-sharing, photo-sharing, etc.
• Live Spaces Photo Control...
• Embed in your web page
• Allows users to select from their photos
• To share photos with your web app
• Can share photos via 2 different URLs...

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Windows Live Spaces Photo Control
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Windows Live Quick Apps

• Projects available on http//codeplex.com
• Customizable, out-of-box solutions for common web
  scenarios
• Full source code available
• Contribute to the projects, or
• Take the source code and build your app

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Windows Live Quick Apps
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Windows Live Desktop Installer

• Unified installer for all WL desktop apps...
• Windows Live Mail
• Windows Live Messenger
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Windows Live Writer
• Windows Live Toolbar
• Windows Live OneCare Family Safety
• http//get.live.com/wl/desktop

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Additional Information

• Windows Live ID
• http//dev.live.com/liveid
• Custom Domains
• http//dev.live.com/customdomains
• Virtual Earth
• http//dev.live.com/virtualearth
• Windows Live Contacts
• http//dev.live.com/contacts
• Windows Live Spaces Control
• http//dev.live.com/spacescontrol

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