Tag Archives: live
Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles
In Part 1 of this series we explored the nature of tile updates, badge updates, and toast notifications that bring a sense of “aliveness” to the overall user experience of Windows 8. In particular, we saw how these notifications are composed with XML payloads that are then issued locally, from ...
2012 Xbox LIVE Update Beta Program Enrollment Now Open
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesEvery year Microsoft opens up a public beta program to Xbox users to test out the coming software updates before they are rolled out to everyone. If you enroll in the program, you will receive an update to your ...
Best practices when adding single sign-on to your app with the Live SDK
A few months ago I wrote about how to bring single sign-on and SkyDrive to your Windows 8 apps with the Live SDK. Since then we made the Windows 8 Release Preview publicly available and we’ve begun to see some inconsistency in the design patterns forming in how apps expose ...
Today’s Windows Phone Event to be Streamed Live
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With all of the Microsoft Surface talk the last few days it’s almost a back story that Microsoft has a huge event today in San Francisco (9AM PT, 12PM ET) where they are going to reveal the future of Windows ...
Bring single sign-on and SkyDrive to your Windows 8 apps with the Live SDK
Thanks to the cloud, Windows 8 customers can work and play seamlessly across devices. By signing in to your PC or device with a Microsoft account and taking advantage of free personal storage in SkyDrive (see Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows ...
Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined
We have talked quite a bit about SkyDrive and using your Microsoft account for the sign-in and roaming capabilities of Windows 8. These are just two aspects of a broad service infrastructure that you can tap into when using Windows 8 (and Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE, and ...
Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID
With Windows 8, we introduce the optional capability to sign in to your PC with a Windows Live ID and, by doing so, gaining the ability to roam a broad range of settings across all of your PCs. In this article by Katie Frigon, the group program ...
Updating live tiles without draining your battery
One thing that is becoming far more commonplace across all of our “screens” is the idea of lightweight notifications. Originally, Windows Gadgets were to offer this type of functionality—the idea is a quick heads up display for some critical information (news, weather, sports scores, or line of business events are ...