Microsoft’s Gadget Gallery today made their “featured gadgets” section open to third party gadgets. Up to now, this space had been populated by Microsoft authored gadgets.
Bruce Kasrel, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft said “We are really energized by …
Most plugins for Live Writer will have a form appear when you click on the Insert link within Live Writer, this form will perform the functionality of the plugin and return the code or text that will be put in …
A few years ago, if you wanted your own search engine, you would have had to work very hard in a garage creating algorithms and all sorts of crazy stuff. Now, thanks to Live Search you can create your own …
Ok, so now that we have the basis for our Live Writer plugin, we need to start adding things to it to make it look and feel better. The best way is to add an image to the plugin that If you've written web or Sidebar gadgets, then you know that you write a lot of JavaScript. JavaScript programming can be tricky as it in an interpretive language (i.e. not pre-compiled like other languages such as C). One thing you …
As reported by Danny Thorpe, Microsoft has released it's next version of the Windows Live Contacts Control beta version 0.2. It has significant improvements over it's predecessor, most notably speed. The new version loads contacts using a completely new …
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. Over the next series of blog entries, I will guide you through the process of making a plugin for Windows Live Writer.My name is Donavon West, a Live.com and Sidebar gadget developer at LiveGadgets.net and a Microsoft MVP for Windows Live Development. This is my first blog article here at LiveSide. Many of you have written gadgets for Live.com (what Microsoft is …
Carter Maslan points to the new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK at dev.live.com. This looks like a good way to get a feel for programming Virtual Earth, as you can choose what you want to do (show a map, find a …
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