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WooHoo! Avatars!

View spaceWell, I’m excited anyway.  We’ve had a few small but quite annoying issues with our recent upgrade server move, and the one affecting our readers most has been the inability to upload avatars.  Well as of tonight that’s fixed :), …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 4

In the last part of this tutorial we covered the links and the new Show and Hide functionality of the Sign-In control. In this part, as promised, we will get to the customization options that are available to you with …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 3

In the last part of this series we added the necessary framework to put in the place the sign-in control and get it working.

MessPlainSignIn

So now that you’ve got the sign-in control displayed in your User Control, what can you …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 2

Following on from the first part of this article where we managed to register Ajax classes and get a basic outline that we can play around with for our new messenger User Control, we come onto logging in to web …

Hotmail to begin rollout of new, faster release

Windows Live Hotmail will begin to roll out an update starting today.  The new release does away with the “full” and “classic” versions, and combines the two into a simpler, faster service.  Included in the new release:

  • Enhanced address book,

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 1

The preface to this little project is that at work I have been handed a project which is all about styling. Given the recent release of Windows Live Messenger Wave 3 beta, the new 2.5 API set and the customizations …

Wave 3: Individual Installers

Here at Liveside, we have been getting a few requests for the individual installers for Wave 3. This could be because they don’t want to upgrade Messenger (ie, they only want to upgrade Writer, for example), or they’re trying …

New PDC sessions announced; Sinofsky, Treadwell to keynote

The Windows 7 and Windows Live bits are starting to come out of the woodwork for PDC, with the announcement of 20 new sessions on Windows 7, and some additions to the keynotes, including Senior Vice President of Windows …

Virtual Earth, Live Maps update: Lots of new features, new SDKs, more

Virtual Earth 6.2, a big new update to Live Maps, and new access to a 3DVia content library where you can download, mash-up, and include 3D content on your 3D maps collections just went live.  Lots to tell you about, …

Windows Mobile 7 delayed, says Ina

Yesterday it was confirmation that Windows Live components would replace their Windows counterparts in Windows 7, and today Ina Fried at CNET is reporting that Windows Mobile 7, the next generation smartphone operating system, will be delayed until the second