Live Services Jumpstart

Welcome to Live Services Jumpstart virtual event site. Live Services Jumpstart 2009 is a level 300-400 technical training on Live Services delivered in several in-depth technical sessions, hands-on labs and informal Q&A. Microsoft’s top engineers and web development experts recently led our partners, developers, top-site customers and field through this deep-dive in over 11 locations world-wide. Through this virtual event site, you can continue to access this training, including presentations and session recordings, on demand.

Live Services – An All-Up Technical Overview

In this session, we’ll give you the foundation for everything you need to know with regard to Live Services. You could almost only attend this session… but you won’t.
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Microsoft Online Identity – Part I

Almost everything in the Live Platform pivots around a person, and people are identities too. We’ll take a quick detour and look at Microsoft’s online identity, specifically Live ID 101, and then we’ll look at delegated authentication which is required for the next session.

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Microsoft Online Identity – Part II

Identity is a huge topic! In Part II you’ll get the details on federation, client authentication, and how to connect your infrastructure to the Identity backbone.

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Communications – Messenger

I’ll “MSN” you! Windows Live Messenger is the world’s largest IM network; tens of millions of people are online concurrently. Presence should be pervasive, apps should be immersive – you’ll learn how to build on top of this powerful network.

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Infrastructure Services

We’ll talk about Search, Virtual Earth and Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. These services run at Internet scale and can be used to complement your existing site.

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Future Direction of Live Services

The world of Live Services is continually changing. We’ll share the roadmap for the evolution of the Live Services platform.

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Resource Model Session

A deep dive into the types of resources that can be stored and synchronized. After you understand the structure, you can start thinking “Sync”.

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Cloud APIs

Learn to store and synchronize resources across diverse platforms with the intuitive, REST-based cloud APIs. Whatever programming language you use, there’s a protocol that fits your needs.

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.NET Libraries

There’s more than one way to sync. We’ll show you how to target the platform from rich client applications, Silverlight, JavaScript and more.

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Mesh Applications

Learn the true meaning of “write once, run anywhere”. Mesh applications let users access their data wherever they are – online, offline, on the client and in the cloud.

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