A while ago, SilverlightShow author Samidip Basu started an article series showing the 8 common tips & tricks towards developing real-world Windows 8 Metro apps.
And this week, Samidip continues with the 8th and final article in which he's discussing Live Service integration from Windows 8 Store Apps to provide the personal user experience that users deserve:
From the author:
Live Services is a suite of services comprising of Microsoft’s SkyDrive, Hotmail/Live/Outlook email & Windows Live Messenger, often clubbed together as Software-As-Service. The user base count of Live Services is well over 500 million & integration with such services in our Windows 8 Apps provides new ways to engage the user with what he already considers personal, thus leading to a more intimate UX and increased usage. Live Connect is a collection of APIs with RESTful endpoints on top of Live Services, which helps us integrate the user’s “personal cloud” in our applications; while .NET wrappers make the developers life simple while performing asynchronous network calls. Let’s look at our options on C#/XAML stack.
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