The developer’s guide to the SkyDrive API’s

Deepesh MohnaniProgram Manager @deepeshm3-139

• What is SkyDrive?• Microsoft’s bet on SkyDrive• Connecting your apps

with SkyDrive• Connecting your website

with SkyDrive

Agenda

What is SkyDrive?

• Deeply integrated in Windows and Office

• Natively accessible across devices and web

• Rich sharing and collaboration

• Easy to use developer APIs

Powerful cloud storage for docs, photos, and files

Microsoft’s bet on SkyDrive

Deep integrationIntegrated with Office todayWith Office 2013 you can easily Open and Save documents in SkyDrive as well as share them from the document enabling co-authoring on PC, Web and Mac.

Integrated into Windows and File Explorer SkyDrive is integrated into Windows through Windows Explorer and File Explorer to provide you offline access to all of your stuff in SkyDrive.

Best cloud for Windows 8SkyDrive has a Windows Store app for Windows 8 that allows users to access SkyDrive files and save to SkyDrive across the OS

Windows Phone camera rollDeeply integrated in to the Windows Phone camera roll and Office Hub. Take a picture and it is automatically backed up into SkyDrive

SkyDrive everywhere

FilesModern devicesApps

• Available across devices

• Storage plan that fit your needs

• Connect Windows devices and apps to personal cloud storage so you can work or play seamlessly anywhere

• Works with Office so you can organize, work together, and share in new ways

• Works with the 3rd party apps that you care about

Connecting your apps to SkyDrive

You can create apps that….Create and capture docs or photos• Save news articles to SkyDrive for access later on another PC• Save images from a shopping app to SkyDrive to show off later on a phone or TV• Store drafts for a notes app so users can pick up where they left off on another device

Bring their personal content to your experience• Share pictures from user’s SkyDrive in a social networking app• Insert pictures into a review app• Access pictures and documents from a user’s SkyDrive from anywhere

<Enter your scenario here>• The SkyDrive APIs allow you to read and write any file type to your users’ SkyDrive

Live SDKWhat is it?• Access SkyDrive using industry standard protocol like OAuth

2.0 and RESTful web APIs returning JSON responses

• Unified cross-platform programming experience

Why use it?• Easy to get started – integrated with Visual Studio• Built on top of the REST APIs• Simplifies authentication and the permission grant experience• Provides a recognizable login experience

https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me/

friends

friend friend

contacts

contact

contact

calendar

event event

albums

album album

SkyDrive

folder photo doc

profile picture

Live SDK

Live SDK – C#LiveLoginResult authResult = await authClient.LoginAsync(new List<string>() { "wl.signin", "wl.basic", "wl.skydrive" });

LiveConnectClient clientFolder = new LiveConnect…..;clientFolder.GetAsync("/me/albums");

Live SDK - JSWL.Event.subscribe("auth.login", onLoginComplete); WL.init();  WL.login({ 

scope: ["wl.signin", "wl.skydrive"],              

}); 

WL.api({             path:  “me/albums",   

           method: "get"           } ).then…..

Demo

Integrating SkyDrive into your app

Demo recapGetting started with Live SDKCreating a “hello world” app Getting user profile infoLoading user albumsLoading pictures from an albumUploading and downloading files

Connecting your website to SkyDrive

Enable web users to open files from or save files to SkyDrive• File picker light box • Easy to implement: just insert a few

lines of JavaScript• Replicating the experience of picking

files from SkyDrive in Windows 8 to the web

Drag picture to placeholder or click icon to add

SkyDrive picker

Demo

Integrating SkyDrive into your website

Demo recap• Integrating the SkyDrive picker to your website• Providing a familiar experience to your users

Supported platforms

REST and many more…..

Questions

SkyDrive: http://www.skydrive.com

Live SDK portal : http://dev.live.com

Live SDK download: http://dev.live.com/download

Interactive SDK: http://isdk.dev.live.com

Live SDK source: http://github.com/liveservices/

Samples: http://github.com/liveservices/liveSDK

Twitter: @deepeshm

Blog : https://blogs.msdn.com/deepm

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