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SkyDrive With Spaces and Writer [Plugin Updated]

With SkyDrive not even 6 hours old, we already have our first addins for it. The Spaces and SkyDrive team have just unveiled a new module for your Windows Live Space, one that shows the public folders you have on your SkyDrive account. To access it, sign into your Space, click on the Customize button and add module and go to the Windows Live section.

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The module will look like this when viewed in non-edit mode:
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And for Writer we have a plugin that will allow you to put the embed code for a public SkyDrive folder into your blog entry, written, and shamelessly promoted, by me.

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I'm just waiting for the plugin to be approved by Windows Live Gallery, but in the meantime, you can download, funnily enough, from my SkyDrive Space smile_wink Plugin is now available on Windows Live Gallery. Full source code available too.

Source code: http://www.codeplex.com/SkyDriveEmbedPlugin
Download Plugin: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=27545581-4b54-4f6d-9007-ed3b168dab43

Update: Apologies, this is the first plugin I have created using Visual Studio 2008, and the setup defaults to having .NET 3.5 as a prerequisite, I have changed this and it now only requires .NET 2.0, not 3.5. The link is the same, so if you are having problems, just download it again. Sorry.

Update 2: As any of you who know me will know, I am never happy with my plugins, so I have made a slight amendment to it. At the moment, the way the embedding works from SkyDrive is to use an iFrame tag, now this gets stripped by a few blog services, so I have given the option of turning off iFrame mode and using the plugin to do all the hard work, the end result will be the same though. The download link above is still the same, but it now points to the updated version (if you want to check, the dll should be version 1.0.1.0)

SL

Comments

 

vipwoody said:

good improvement, just imagine how easy file sharing would be with this thing! this is a good step Microsoft is taking (Y)

August 10, 2007 12:08 AM
 

Matthew said:

Thanks Scott!

I needed .NET Framework 3.5 with Vista.  For anyone else who does, here's a direct link:

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

or here

msdn2.microsoft.com/.../aa569263.aspx

@Matthew

August 10, 2007 12:09 AM
 

luisfelipe said:

I was not able to add the Windows Live Skydrive in my Windows Live Spaces.

Into the Windows Live modules section, its only appear Windows Live Favorites options...

What can I do to correct this?

Thank you!

August 10, 2007 12:16 AM
 

ScottIsAFool said:

Ok, having some slight installer issues here with VS 2008, trying to iron them out...

August 10, 2007 12:22 AM
 

ScottIsAFool said:

Right, it's finally there. The msi available now doesn't require .NET 3.5

August 10, 2007 12:31 AM
 

DN2004 said:

That module doesnt seem to appear on live spaces under windows live. Is it a rolling update?

August 10, 2007 1:02 AM
 

Nick said:

Just helped scott add inline code to the plugin, so if your blog doesn't allot iframes, then it'll still work (Just about, might look slightly different)

August 10, 2007 1:46 AM
 

ScottIsAFool said:

@DN2004: It's probably only available to those markets that can access SkyDrive, so US, UK, India etc.

August 10, 2007 2:11 AM
 

the_matrixx said:

I couldn't find the module to add either on my space but I stumbled upon a work around. If you go to the Space's "What's New" page at the top right, you can click "Share Files" un the Add to your space area.

August 10, 2007 2:42 AM
 

luisfelipe said:

Guys!!!

Windows Live Skydrive are already available in several contries... I access the English US, English UK, Portuguese Brazil, and Portuguese Portugal versions of Skydrive... just add the

?mkt=en-us, ?mkt=pt-br, etc. at the end of the URL. I can do the same at Windows Live Spaces... So, I can access Skydrive and Space at any market.

I think is a rolling update, too...

August 10, 2007 2:51 AM
 

luisfelipe said:

Ahh!!!

Windows Live Home also are available in several contries too... Do the same workaround to see the Live Home in any language you want.

To see what is the code to view in the country and language you want, visit the Windows Live Spaces Help Center and find the article "What can I change the language?"

I think I could help you! Thank you!

August 10, 2007 2:55 AM
 

Chris said:

Luis, you can log in with many languages, however you can't sign up unless you are in the three regions: USA/UK/India.

August 10, 2007 6:56 AM
 

DN2004 said:

@Scott

This is what is most confusing, I am from the UK, and all my settings and regions are set to English (UK) so I am unsure why it is not showing on my live space :S

August 10, 2007 1:23 PM
 

DN2004 said:

Never mind it has now appeared, it must of been a rolling update or something

August 10, 2007 1:25 PM

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