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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 get their contact list. What is left is how to actually carry out a conversation with a contact. If you remember...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 03-14-2008
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 API and the Windows Live Messenger Library . What all this allows you to do is to create a Windows...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 03-13-2008
JSLint adds supports for Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

You've heard me stress in the past the importance of writing good JavaScript, especially when it comes to the complex code that makeup a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget. You've also heard me preach that you should always lint your code . In the August 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine I mentioned a great...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by donavon on 03-12-2008
Microsoft's lack of sticking to standards rears it's ugly head again

I was going to do a short article on how easy it is to extract information and generally mess around with Windows Live Spaces blog posts in your code using LINQ, however due to Microsoft's lack of sticking to standards, this has become impossible for what I was intending to write the article about...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 02-26-2008
.Net Framework 3.5 sourcecode now available

As this affects (potentially) all aspects of development on the Microsoft .Net platform, whether it be adding plugings to Windows Live Writer, writing your own websites incorporating many of the Windows Live API's that have been published or maybe writing something that has absolutely nothing to...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 01-18-2008
Tafiti Search Visualization - Overview

If you head over to Codeplex you will find a number of Contoso Quick Applications posted there. Each one demonstrating various aspects of the Windows Live platform and showing you a "real world" style application that makes use of them, along with the source code so that you can easily apply...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 12-18-2007
Add Silverlight to Sharepoint 2007

Recently I was asked how to display Rich media (mainly video) in Sharepoint 2007 by our communications department. This shouldn't be too hard to do so time to whip up a quick demo/proof of concept to make sure that it in fact can be done, and what better way than to create a custom web part that...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 12-05-2007
Microsoft releases Volta Tech Preview

Today, Microsoft announced the availability of the Volta Technology Preview. Volta is a toolset that allows to developers to split their application easily into different client and server parts. This decision is usually taken very early in the design process, but Volta allows this decision to be postponed...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ChrisW on 12-05-2007
Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club Part 3

Technorati Tags: Windows Live , Programming , Contoso Bicycle Club , Quick Apps Welcome back to the third part of our deep dive in the Windows Live Quick Apps Website featuring the Contoso Bicycle Club. In this part we’ll take apart one of the main JavaScript function calls that this web site uses, updatePage...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 11-08-2007
Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club Part 2

Welcome back to the second part of our deep dive in the Windows Live Quick Apps Website featuring the Contoso Bicycle Club. In this part we’ll take a look at another custom user control found on the home page, the Latest Rides feed. If you followed the first part of this deep dive then you will find...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 11-08-2007

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Windows Live Messenger Web Controls - Part 2

Windows Live Messenger Web Controls - Part 1

JSLint adds supports for Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Microsoft's lack of sticking to standards rears it's ugly head again

.Net Framework 3.5 sourcecode now available

Tafiti Search Visualization - Overview

Add Silverlight to Sharepoint 2007

Microsoft releases Volta Tech Preview

Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club Part 3

Windows Live Quick Apps – Contoso Bicycle Club Part 2