When I interviewed Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe at MixUK back in September, we were told about a new toolkit that would be coming for Visual Studio that would be very similar in design to the Facebook toolkit that Microsoft …

Back when I wrote about adding a Silverlight Streaming app to your blog, I showed you how to add the Silverlight app to your SLS account at http://silverlight.live.com/. Well, now there is an addon for Expression Encoder (thanks …

If you’re in the UK and interested in developing using the Windows Live Platform, then Microsoft are going to be hosting a developer event next Tuesday (6th November) at their Reading HQ.

From the event page:

Overview:

Windows

Wrox is about to release a book by Jon Arking titled “Professional Windows Live Programming”. As a Microsoft MVP, I was fortunate to get a pre-release copy.

The book does a good job highlighting the many services that makeup Windows …

There was a comment left on my most recent plugin guide:

“I would love to see a guide on how to code Plugins for Writer.  That would be really cool :D”

Well, that guide already exists and were some of …

In a few of my plugins, I often find myself using System.Net.HttpWebRequest to get some data from a website, whether from a service or to access a specific part of a website. This is all very well and good, but …

The Virtual Earth blog today announced the release of version 6 of its VE SDK. The new SDK is available online on MSDN as well as the interactive SDK on http://dev.live.com/. To get the new version, all you need …

Last week I posted about my interview with Angus Logan and Danny Thorpe and included the whole interview in the blog post by using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. But just what did I need to do to get …

If you want to get a start with some of the Windows Live SDKs, then it can be a daunting task. You could try looking for tutorials on the chosen SDK, or look at the examples that usually come with …

The web authentication SDK for Windows Live ID has hit version 1.0 today and is now available for download, according Angus Logan’s blog post. This means that websites can now easily integrate the Windows Live ID login to …