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scottisafool — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:15:43 GMT

Unfortunately, as of December 1st, the Photo API from Microsoft was ended (http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/12/01/439.aspx). Hopefully they will be including the Photo API in the Live Services Framework at some point, but at this time, there are no dates on when/if that will happen.

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joshy_kott — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:25 GMT

I modified the microsoft Spaces Photo API Sample to view photoalbums and photos using livenet dll and modified the code according to "http://scottisafooldev.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!FE151030F50B5B37!627.entry".But i am getting the error " <title>Untitled Page</title> Object reference not set to an instance of an object" on getting photoalbums = m_photos.ListAlbums().
I got the token from https://dev.live.com/livedata/sdk/Default.aspx..

I am getting error on https://dev.live.com/livedata/sdk/Default.aspx
on clicking List Albums and photos after getting token.
I want to know which is the correct url to access photos
strRoot = "https://cumulus.services.live.com/" + "@C@" + lid + "/SpacesPhotos/";
or
strRoot = "https://cumulus.services.live.com/hotmailemail/SpacesPhotos/"

Thanks & Regards
Joshy

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bosko19 — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:48:20 GMT

There was a brief mention at DevConnections in Orlando about a Virtual Earth wrapper. Is this in the works? If so...when should we expect it?

Thanks!

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ScottIsAFool — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:56:14 GMT

Unfortunately, there's not way of getting that type of link from the API. There are permalinks coming soon, but not sure what sort of performance you will get from them as I have yet to be able to play around with them.

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liuzhisheng — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:51:28 GMT

Yes, but I don't know which has a good performance, image handler and the url like http://tkfiles.storage.live.com/y1p1ev6eUMpQmNzURDYChLcsGK8Di9ExY7T2ECahHev6hbCbiMKQ3tEVKWCL6eu1c5Rug-z7uaQawI

Thanks

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ScottIsAFool — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:46:20 GMT

If you look at the Sample Web Site that we have made in the source, you will see that the way to do it for now is to actually use an image handler, which you can use LiveNet for too. So in our example, we have:

Photo photo = m_photos.GetPhoto(new Uri(lbPhotos.SelectedItem.Value));
imgPhoto.ImageUrl = string.Format("./photo.lnet?url={0}&oh={1}", photo.PhotoPath, photo.Owner.UserId);

That will pull back the image and then display it in your webpage.

SL

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liuzhisheng — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:23:16 GMT

Hi,

After uploading a photo using the LiveNet, how to get the photo's url that can be embed into a web page or blog? like http://tkfiles.storage.live.com/y1p1ev6eUMpQmNzURDYChLcsGK8Di9ExY7T2ECahHev6hbCbiMKQ3tEVKWCL6eu1c5Rug-z7uaQawI

Thanks

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purekrome — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:33:18 GMT

Pleasure Scott :) Lets pray to the gods of code that you guys can provide a nice wrapper to Virtual Earth. There are other wrappers for other geospatial providers out there (mainly because there are REST api's available, for them) .. so having a Virtual Earth Seach wrapper would be the best!

cheers :)

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ScottIsAFool — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:16:45 GMT

At the moment we are implementing the Live Contacts API, then we will be adding Expo, as for some of the others, I'm not sure a final decision has been made on that, but thanks for the suggestion and we shall take it on board :)

SL

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purekrome — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:02:53 GMT

Hi guys,
what other LIVE services will be added to this .NET wrapper? Virtual Earth search?

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ScottIsAFool — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:51:12 GMT

Indeed, as Angus mentioned in Is Windows Live Space Photos the right tool for me?:

number of requests for thumbnailed images (coming in January)

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lukesmith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:30:50 GMT

mparter wrote:

ScottIsAFool wrote:

mparter wrote:
Great, got it working now, thanks.

Cool :D

Sorry to be a pest, but do you know of any ASP.NET ImageHandler code that could take an image from the URL (e.g. string.Format("./photo.lnet?url={0}&oh={1}", photo.PhotoPath, photo.Owner.UserId);) and resize this for output to the page? The one's I've find to date deal primarily with file-based images and I have enough to do just now without re-writing one of those.

This could be something that we could intergrate into the imagehandler within LiveNet. Hopefully the Spaces Api will give the ability to request photos as a certain size (thumbnails/medium/original etc..) at some point in the future.

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ScottIsAFool — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:47:07 GMT

Unfortunately, I don't. Sorry.

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mparter — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:20:03 GMT

ScottIsAFool wrote:

mparter wrote:
Great, got it working now, thanks.

Cool :D

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ScottIsAFool — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:31:19 GMT

mparter wrote:
Great, got it working now, thanks.

Cool :D

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mparter — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:26:48 GMT

Great, got it working now, thanks.

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ScottIsAFool — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:38:33 GMT

Ok, if you check http://www.codeplex.com/LiveNet/SourceControl/FileView.aspx?itemId=49177&changeSetId=5760, and look at the btnGetPhoto_Click method, you'll see where we assign the image url is:

imgPhoto.ImageUrl = string.Format("./photo.lnet?url={0}&oh={1}", photo.PhotoPath, photo.Owner.UserId);

We have included in the API a handler page for displaying the images. In your web.config, you will need to make sure you have this section:

<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="photo.lnet" type="LiveNet.Web.LivePhotoHandler, LiveNet" />
</httpHandlers>

What you will probably need to do is create a Photo object from the ImageURL that you have stored, then you can assign the asp:Image's ImageUrl to be the same format as what I showed above.

You will also need to implement a class that inherits from LiveNet.Authentication.IHttpAuthenticationObtainer.

Best thing I can suggest really is to just look through the LiveNetSampleSite in the source code and you will see where everything falls into place.

SL

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mparter — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:21:14 GMT

ScottIsAFool wrote:
How are you trying to display the image? Are you making the img src to be the cumulus link? If so, this won't work. Will go into more detail once I know how you're trying to display the image :)

SL

Hi Scott,

I'm creating a DataTable, which holds the ImageName, ImageCaption, ImageURL and LastModified values. I'm then binding this to a DataList control using declarative markup. e.g.

<asp:DataList ID="photoThumbnails" runat="server" RepeatColumns="6" RepeatDirection="Horizontal" RepeatLayout="Flow">
<ItemTemplate>
<a href="<%# Eval("ImageURL") %>"><asp:Image ID="photo" ImageUrl='<%# Eval("ImageURL") %>' AlternateText='<%# Eval("ImageCaption") %>' runat="server" /></a>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>

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ScottIsAFool — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:44:26 GMT

How are you trying to display the image? Are you making the img src to be the cumulus link? If so, this won't work. Will go into more detail once I know how you're trying to display the image :)

SL

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mparter — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:39:30 GMT

I downloaded the source code and compiled it but was still having the same problem. Just as I was about to post I noticed you have released a 0.2.1 release so I've downloaded that but still, the images are not being shown. It's picking up their captions fine, and showing the correct number of images but the images themselves are not being displayed.

The URL being retrieved is https://cumulus.services.live.com/<WLID>/SpacesPhotos/<ID>/<IMAGENAME>