Windows Live ID Customisation Now Live

Ok, so this was actually live last week, but hey. James Senior blogged last week about Live ID Customisation last week, and also commented this week that LiveWIM have changed their Live ID Sign ... Read more »

Live Mesh and Live Framework clients, now best friends

For those who have been developing against the Live Framework, one of the biggest drawbacks of doing this is having to give up your Mesh client on your dev PC. The choice was sadly ... Read more »

Virtual Earth 6.2 KML Support, Part 1

Overview KML (Keyhole Markup Language), an XML schema originally developed for Google Earth to describe shapes on a map has been supported by VE since version 6.0 was released and hasn’t changed much since VE 6.2.  The common questions this series ... Read more »

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 11

In this the final installment of this series of tutorials for the moment we will be completing the Web Messenger control by adding the ability for users to actually hold conversations.  We will also ... Read more »

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 10

So far in this series we have covered quite a bit of ground including customizing the sign-in control, groups, contacts, new features of the 2.5 API including user images etc. For this part we ... Read more »

End Of The Line For Photos And Application Storage API

Angus Logan has posted on dev.live.com that Microsoft will be switching off the end points for Photos and Application Storage. From Angus’ post: The Photos API CTP especially has been extremely useful for us, ... Read more »

Microsoft releases new Windows Live Agents version and announces its retirement

Over at the Windows Live Agents Team blog, the team just announced the final release of the Windows Live Agents 5.1 SDK. With Windows Live Agents, developers are able to create messenger chat bots ... Read more »

Client and Server side interaction using VS 2008 ASP.NET AJAX

Overview In our previous article “invoking server side code using AJAX” (http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/InvokingserversidecodeusingAJAX.aspx), we investigated how to send a request from the client side to the server side using the AJAX xmlhttprequest object.  Visual Studio 2008 ... Read more »

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 9

After a little break due to a very heavy work schedule, we’re back with Part 9 of this mini-series explaining how to create a Web Messenger control that you can just drop into your ... Read more »

LiveFX + Windows Live ID Client SDK = Safer Program

Building an application that uses the LiveFX is easy. So is building an application that uses Windows Live ID. Using the Windows Live ID Client SDK also means that you’re not asking a user ... Read more »