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Yesterday the Live Framework folks published this blog post. Quite possibly the single most important update in this release is that you can now use both the beta Live Mesh client and the CTP Live Framework client side-by-side. This means that you can continue to share your files using Live Mesh on the same machine that you're using to develop Live Framework applications. This is huge because up until now, you had to devote two different machines (physical or virtual) to this. I'm very pleased to say that I'm now running both clients and it's a huge relief to not have to use one machine for my file sharing and another machine for my development.
Support for Win7 is also included in these bits, which is timely, considering I just recently installed Win7 on my laptop. If you want all the gory details, you can find the complete API change list here. One of the things that was interesting while looking through the change list was the addition of the LiveQuery class. I'm going to have to experiment with that one as it could make app dev on the Mesh much easier/smoother.
LoopStatement is a new class that looks like it will ease the pain for people who were extensively using resource scripts, but as the bits were released yesterday I haven't had time to play with this class yet either.
And finally, quite possibly my favorite feature, is that the bug fix from the Jan CTP where they fixed the icon changing problem is well, still fixed. :) The only reason I mention it is because the bug fix came from one of my threads on the Live Framework forum.
Once I've had time (because I have oh so much spare time...) I will do some more playing with these new bits and post some code samples and my thoughts on the subject.
