Live Framework Part IV – Deploying to the mesh
Hi, in my last post we’ve created a console application that connected to the Live Mesh and added an object. Today we’ll be creating and deploying a Mesh Application which we’ll enhance in next posts.
That said, fire up Visual Studio and create a new Silverlight Mesh-Enabled Web Application (you’ll find it under Live Framework project type). This will create a basic skeleton Silverlight application to be deployed to Live Mesh. When the application get’s created you can Run it and you’ll be presented with the following dialog:
Click the Navigate to the Developer portal, login if needed and on the left sidebar menu, choose the Live Services option. Select the application you have created on Part II and choose the Upload Package button. Now it’s time to go back to “Application Self-Link needed” window and click the link on step 2 to copy your package path to clipboard. Paste it on the browser window in the Textbox provided and click the deploy button.Wait while the application is deployed and then copy the Application Self Link and paste it to step 3.
Press ok and wait for the upload to finish. The only time you need to make these steps is when you run your application for the first time. After it finishes, a new webpage will open with your Live Mesh Desktop running the application you just deployed.
Right now, when i was writing this post, i came across this http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2009/08/21/500.aspx and it seems Live Framework CTP services are going down on September 8th… Until there, i won’t be writing any more posts about Live Framework. Let’s see where this is going.
