Last night the Windows Live Spaces team blog announced that they had released a new version of Spaces (link). According to the post there are a few backend changes, but the main change is something that people have …

I got a chance to meet up with the Vista Bus earlier this morning as it rolled through our nation’s capital. In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft took a sweet “rock star” bus, loaded with Vista laptops and set out on an 8 …

Microsoft’s Danny Thorpe talks about the new version of the Windows Live Contacts control that adds a new tile view that displays online presence (i.e. online, busy, etc) and initiate a messenger session. The hosting Web site can also pre-define a …

Today saw the (as yet) silent release of the SDK (Software Developer Kit) for Windows Live Alerts. I haven’t had a full chance to go through it yet and see what it lets you do, but if you fancy …

As regular readers of LiveSide.net know, I am Donavon West, a Microsoft MVP and I wrote the Windows Vista Countdown gadget. The other day, a friend sent me a link to a blog posting by Mitch Denny, a …

As you all may remember, I wrote a guide on creating your own basic plug-in for Windows Live Writer, well I have now created a template that you can use within Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express so when you …

Developers often find the need to popup some kind of informational message to the user. We’ve all been on web sites and received the “Invalid input, please try again” alert, or the “Delete record. Are you sure?” confirmation dialog. But …

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 …

Donavon wrote a gadget for Live.com, Spaces, and the Vista sidebar that counts down to when Vista officially ships to the general public. So I thought I would continue this using the Messenger Add-In APIs and write the same thing …

While no formal announcement was made, Microsoft quietly slipped out a new version 0.7 of the Web Gadget SDK last week. In fact the “It’s time to Build” page on the recently crippled MicrosoftGadgets.com still shows version 0.5 (beta).…