Writing Plugins For Windows Live Writer – Working With Forms

Most plugins for Live Writer will have a form appear when you click on the Insert link within Live Writer, this form will perform the functionality of the plugin and return the code or ... Read more »

Create Your Own Search Engine

A few years ago, if you wanted your own search engine, you would have had to work very hard in a garage creating algorithms and all sorts of crazy stuff. Now, thanks to Live ... Read more »

Writing Plugins For Windows Live Writer – Adding An Icon

Ok, so now that we have the basis for our Live Writer plugin, we need to start adding things to it to make it look and feel better. The best way is to add ... Read more »

Gadget Development Tip: Lint your JavaScript

If you've written web or Sidebar gadgets, then you know that you write a lot of JavaScript. JavaScript programming can be tricky as it in an interpretive language (i.e. not pre-compiled like other languages ... Read more »

Windows Live Contacts gadget v0.2

As reported by Danny Thorpe, Microsoft has released it's next version of the Windows Live Contacts Control beta version 0.2. It has significant improvements over it's predecessor, most notably speed. The new version loads ... Read more »

Writing Plugins For Windows Live Writer – Getting Started

Hi, I’m Scøtt, or ScottIsAFool as a lot of you know me as . Over the next series of blog entries, I will guide you through the process of making a plugin for Windows Live ... Read more »

Live Spaces: The challenges facing gadget developers

My name is Donavon West, a Live.com and Sidebar gadget developer at LiveGadgets.net and a Microsoft MVP for Windows Live Development. This is my first blog article here at LiveSide. Many of you have written gadgets for ... Read more »

Virtual Earth Interactive SDK

Carter Maslan points to the new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK at dev.live.com. This looks like a good way to get a feel for programming Virtual Earth, as you can choose what you want to ... Read more »