Windows Live Messenger Library v2.0 API released

A couple of weeks ago the windows live team released the next iteration of the Windows Live Messenger Library API. Having listened to user comments, one of the biggest requests was the ability to ... Read more »

Microsoft partners with Facebook, Bebo, more to exchange contacts information securely using the Windows Live Contacts API

In a blog post this morning, John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform at Microsoft, announces a set of new partnerships signed by Microsoft and 5 major social networks: Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged, and ... Read more »

Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 2

Hopefully you will have read and followed the code from the first part of this article. The first part covered most of base functionality including how to sign in, get the users details and ... Read more »

Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1

The Windows Live team have been busy over the past few months and recently launched the Windows Live Messenger APIs. This is basically split over three parts, the IM Control, the Windows Live Presence ... Read more »

Announcement: LiveNet Wrapper for Windows Live Developing

My friend Luke Smith and I for the last month have been working on a new .Net wrapper for Windows Live, which we have called LiveNet. You might be thinking “what’s the difference between ... Read more »

Windows Live Spaces Photos API

Last week I mentioned about the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio that came up for download on Connect, well this week, I will be mentioning the Windows Live Spaces Photos API (alpha), which ... Read more »

Windows Live Quick Apps and New Live Partner Initiative

At the World Partner Conference in Denver today, they took a look at Windows Live and the opportunities that are there for companies to take advantage of the services that are offered by Windows ... Read more »

Windows Live Writer’s New APIs, Deployment Methods And A Hidden Extra

With last week’s release of beta 2 of Windows Live Writer, the Writer Team released a new set of API documentation, but not for plugin development (sadly), rather for Blog Service Providers to enable ... Read more »

Windows Live Data SDK and more

I’m Chris Weeïnk, a Microsoft MVP Windows Live Developer, and this is my first blog post here at LiveSide. I’ve been around in the Windows Vista and MSN/Windows Live communities for a while and I primarily focused on ... Read more »

Writing A Quick Application That Uses Windows Live ID

With the release of the Windows Live ID SDK comes the ability to add the trusted security of Windows Live to your application, but how much work is needed to actually get this functionality into ... Read more »