http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/tags/QuickApps/default.aspxTags: QuickAppsenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/07/25/new-windows-live-platform-quick-applications-released.aspxFri, 25 Jul 2008 23:49:58 GMT56c526a3-1f9b-4262-a0cc-2de2ce4c7619:8878Kip Kniskern1http://www.liveside.net/main/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8878http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/07/25/new-windows-live-platform-quick-applications-released.aspx#comments<p>Just released are four new <a href="http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps" target="_blank">QuickApps</a>, demo apps that you can use, study, and/or modify.&#160; They take advantage of Windows Live and Microsoft tools such as Silverlight, Windows Live ID, Messenger, and more.&#160; <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2008/07/25/announcement-more-quick-apps-launched-the-great-wall-of-videos.aspx" target="_blank">Angus Logan has more</a>, including a description of the purposes of QuickApps:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Quick Apps have 3 purposes</p> <ol> <li><strong>Examples of what is possible</strong> – use them, play with them, get ideas! </li> <li><strong>Technical reference</strong> – if you want to use a Live Platform API, there is a good chance it will be in a Quick App, <a href="http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps">check out the code</a> to see how it was implemented. </li> <li><strong>Starting point –</strong> these end-to-end applications are licensed under a fairly liberal (OSI approved) license, you can use them as starting points for your own applications. </li> </ol> </blockquote> <p></p> <p></p> <p>One of the new QuickApps, <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/WLQuickApps/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Retail&amp;referringTitle=Home" target="_blank">Retail</a>, includes a Wall of Video, using Silverlight:</p> <p><a href="http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/NewWindowsLivePlatformQuickApplicationsr_8A3C/quickappsredshoes.png"><img title="quickappsredshoes" style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" height="253" alt="quickappsredshoes" src="http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/WindowsLiveWriter/NewWindowsLivePlatformQuickApplicationsr_8A3C/quickappsredshoes_thumb.png" width="400" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>…kind of like the red shoes :).</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.liveside.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8878" width="1" height="1">DeveloperQuickApps