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Messenger Web Toolkit updated: version 3.7 available now

The Messenger Web Toolkit, which lets you offer Windows Live Messenger functions from within your blog, has just been updated to version 3.7, according to a blog post on The Windows Live Messenger Developer blog.

Changes include offering Offline …

WL Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 released

Last March, at Mix09, Microsoft released the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, a way to incorporate Messenger directly into your website, and today, they’ve released a new version 3.5.  Designed to enhance the user experience, and make it easier …

Popfly RIP (but you can get the game engine from CodePlex)

popflyRIP Popfly, the game creator mashup experiment from Microsoft, closed its doors for good last Monday, but as a “parting present”, the Popfly creators have put the Game Engine portion of Popfly up on CodePlex.  Most of the …

CodeCast Episode 41: Ken Levy talks with James Senior

codemag Ken Levy, who left Microsoft just a bit over a year ago after working on the Windows Live Platform team, and “kick starting” Dev.Live.com, has been doing (among lots of other things) a podcast for Code Magazine online.  In his …

Live Messenger Web Toolkit goes multi-lingual

Siebe announced yesterday on the Messenger Developer blog that the UI Controls now available in over 40 languages!

Hello! Hallo! Guten Tag! Buenos días! Hola! Alo! Hallå!

It’s just a selection of some of the languages the UI controls are

Windows Live Web Toolbar Mashup – MessyTwit

A lot of people nowadays have Twitter accounts, a Facebook account etc. and if you’re reading this then I’m also assuming you have a Windows Live account and some interest in Windows Live Services. Each of these have their own …

Windows Live UI Controls

Following on from my previous tutorial on how to integrate the Windows Live Web Bar into your site, we’ll build upon this and show you some of the other UI controls that you can use in your site.

One thing …

NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000

azure-logo_2 Just announced today, NewCloudApp(), The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge, offers US based Azure developers a couple of chances to win exposure via Azure.com and major Microsoft events, Channel 9, the Structure Azure conference, and a $5000 Visa Gift …

Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site

Live Messenger Web Toolkit

With the Mix09 Keynote taking place later today (4pm GMT, watch it live at http://live.visitmix.com/), one of the things that will be shown at Mix is the Live Messenger Web Toolkit. Basically, the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit “enables …