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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 an image to the plugin that will appear in the Insert section of Writer. …Windows Live Mail desktop Refresh: Better late than never
The MoreThanMail team blog jumped the gun a little bit last night and announced the availability of their newest public build of Windows Live Mail desktop just a little bit before it was ready to go live. Thankfully, the technical issues have been resolved and build 1083 is …
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 such as C). One thing you can and should do to help eliminate JavaScript …
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 contacts using a completely new method making it load light years faster than …
Windows Live OneCare 1.5 enters beta
Today the OneCare 1.5 beta program has started, with Microsoft's pc protection suite due for updates previously submitted during tester feedback. Key changes include:
- Vista support (build 5500 or greater)
- International versions (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK,
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Local and Safety Scanner come out of beta
Just in from http://ideas.live.com , although no official announcement as yet, but Live Local and Safety Scanner have dropped the beta tag and graduated to full blown Windows Live Services. This brings the list of released products to 10, according to ideas.live.com
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Live Mail gets update to M8
Today's Live Mail update features numerous UI and userability enhancements, but currently is only available to users on selected server bays. The update also includes:
- “Send Email As” feature that allows users to send mail from other email addresses.
- More contact viewing options
- A contacts importer
Some of you …
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 Writer.In this article, I am going to show how to create a …
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 Live.com (what Microsoft is now referring to as "web gadgets"). The introduction …
