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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
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 Live. They showed off two applications that had been built by two UK Microsoft Partners , AWS and Conchango...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ScottIsAFool on 07-12-2007
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 helping developers in those communities. A couple of days ago, Microsoft launched...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ChrisW on 04-30-2007
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 your program? Turns out, not a lot. In fact, for just getting a working sign in window and a message to show...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ScottIsAFool on 03-22-2007
Windows Live ID SDK (Alpha)

Brian Kramp today announced the availablitiy of the Windows Live ID SDKs in its alpha version. The Windows Live ID SDK basically means that you can add the security and ease of Windows Live into your own applications. If you have a program that requires the user to log in, you can now use Windows Live...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ScottIsAFool on 02-02-2007
Windows Live SDKs

Over the last year, we've had all sorts of different SDKs released for Windows Live products and services, but yesterday saw the announcement of not another seperate SDK, but the collective Windows Live SDKs. I think this has been a given all along, but we have the "official" status now. So what SDKs...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ScottIsAFool on 01-27-2007
Windows Live Search SDK Released

The Windows Live Dev site has just posted that the Windows Live Search SDK is now available on MSDN ( link ). So what's new in this release? According to the blog post it includes: Lots more sample code! Weather and Movie Time queries Support for keyword/placename queries (ex: coffee seattle) Increased...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by ScottIsAFool on 01-26-2007
Windows Live Contact Cards

The folks over at Windows Live have recently released an update for the Contact Cards API to v0.2 (see dev.live.com for details). What is a contact card? A contact card (or perhaps cards) is really the list of all your contacts that you have associated with a particular Microsoft Passport account. Quick...

Posted to LiveSide - Developer Blog (Weblog) by Hackersoft on 12-21-2006

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