Related and Helpful Microsoft Technologies
Microsoft has many additional products, technologies and resources that can be a great complement to Live Services. Tools like Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression and innovative technologies like Silverlight and ASP.NET Ajax give you tremendous power to build compelling applications with Live Services.
Feed Sync is a protocol that is really hard to explain but we are going to get Steven Lees to give us a first draft of what it might be.
Silverlight is a browser plugin that allows development of media-rich web applications that support animation, vector graphics and streaming audio and video applications.
Visual Studio is Microsoft's main Integrated Development Environment and features a suite of development tools needed to create applications across Microsoft platforms.
ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for quickly creating efficient and interactive Web applications that work across all popular browsers.
Expression Studio's family of design and media applications and tools allows professional designers to build web and Windows client applications with rich media content.
Popfly is a suite of tools based on Silverlight technology that lets developers create web pages, program snippets, and mashups without having to write a single line of code.
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