Developer

Windows Live Toolbar Buttons: Creating your own

I got bored yesterday, so to satisfy an hours’ boredom, I took a look at the buttons on the Windows Live Toolbar as you can easily create your own. There are two ways of doing it, the easy way, or …

Windows Live ID – Part 3 – Putting it all together

In the previous two articles I showed you how to use the Windows Live ID login control in your web site then we developed a custom Membership provider so that you could hook Windows Live ID in with asp.net’s build …

Windows Live Agents – Sign Up Now For The SDK

image Windows Live Agents might be a new term for some people, but the idea of them certainly isn’t: Windows Live Agents are basically Messenger bots that you have in your contact list. One of the more popular bot creation tools …

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 …

Windows Live ID – Part 2 – Membership Provider

In the first part of this article I explained how to integrate Windows Live ID into your own web site, how to call it and what information it returned and how to access that information.

Now that is all fine …

Windows Live ID

This article will be the first in a short series on incorporating Windows Live ID authentication services into your web site.

Windows Live ID authentication services enables you to incorporate Passport authentication into your own Web sites. It also enables …

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 features within Writer itself. This …

Gadget Vs Gadget

Are you Canadian? Do you have a cool idea for a gadget, whether it be a sidebar gadget or web (live.com/spaces) gadget? Does it involve a Windows Live service? Would you like to own a nice new 40″ Widescreen LCD …

Windows Live Writer Amazon Starter Plugin

Getting started with Window Live Writer Plugins

Writing a plugin for Windows Live Writer is actually fairly easy. The biggest problem you’re going to come across is thinking about what to actually add.

There are currently a number of plugins

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 …