Dare Obasanjo posted a quick notice on the Windows Live Developers Blog announcing that the "Application Contacts" feature in Messenger Connect will be discontinued in six month’s time due to low user usage. For those who doesn’t know, the application …

In September we saw the CTP version of Visual Basic for Windows phone Developer Tools, today the team announces the RTW version:

Back in September, we released the CTP of Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. Today

While we know that Microsoft Live Labs was shuttered almost a month ago – and the team was “transitioned” into Bing, it appears that not all the incubation projects went under Bing’s control (and it would make sense not to). …

An email sent to beta testers and posted on the Messenger Connect forums announced today that Microsoft is discontinuing the Messenger Connect strongly typed .Net Library, instead offering samples of code which work directly with Messenger Connect web services, using …

At the Worldwide Developer’s Conference in Washington DC, Microsoft announced that there will indeed be a PDC (Professional Developer’s Conference) this year, and that for the first time ever, it will be held on Microsoft’s campuses in Redmond, WA, USA:…

Currently the Bing Maps App SDK .chm documentation covers how to add Pushpins on the map, but not polylines and polygons.  When creating your entities, rather than passing in a PointPrimitive instance to the Entity.Primitive property, you can pass in …

Angus Logan, Sr. Technical Product Manager for Messenger Connect, has been busy today sharing lots of information about the new set of APIs that allow developers to interact with Messenger and Windows Live.  In a blog post on Inside Windows …

Today, Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows Live Messenger Connect beta. Messenger Connect is a single API that enables developers to integrate social experiences into their web and rich-client applications using the Windows Live services. It consists of a …

It sure is going to be an exciting day tomorrow! Not only will the long awaited Wave 4 version of Windows Live Essentials go in to public beta but also set for release tomorrow is a new version of the …

For those who tried installing the Bing Maps App SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps) you will likely come upon the following error when running the .msi.

Even though I had Visual Studio 2010 (Premium) installed and the latest Silverlight 4.0 runtime installed, …