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Windows Live ID Customisation Now Live

Ok, so this was actually live last week, but hey. James Senior blogged last week about Live ID Customisation last week, and also commented this week that LiveWIM have changed their Live ID Sign In page. This is actually a …

Live Mesh and Live Framework clients, now best friends

For those who have been developing against the Live Framework, one of the biggest drawbacks of doing this is having to give up your Mesh client on your dev PC. The choice was sadly rather simple, either use the Live …

Live FX is here

Thanks to Angus Logan for the heads up on this.  Live FX is now up and running with some demo’s and sample code to get you started.

Also the Live FX team has started a new blog which you can …

Virtual Earth Basics Part 1 – Loading the Map

Welcome to the first part in series that takes you through the core functionality of the Microsoft’s Virtual Earth JavaScript control. Through example code I hope to either introduce you to the Virtual Earth control or show you how to …

A “Quick And Dirty” Console Application Using The LiveFX

This post is really just a starting point on using the LiveFX. Now, although I’ll show you a quick application, you won’t be able to use any of this just yet unless you have been given a LiveFX token …

Windows Live Tools For Visual Studio Updated

Whilst there has been no official word on this yet, I noticed today that the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio has been updated on Microsoft Downloads.

From the download page:

This CTP is an update to July 2008

Dev.live.com Updated

LiveServicesJust to whet our appetites for what’s to come, the dev.live.com website has been updated, complete with a new logo. There’s no new content on there yet, but that will start showing up tomorrow after David Treadwell’s Keynote at PDC.…

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 8

So far in this series we have learned about the Sign-In control, how to use it and the new features allowing you customize and hide it. We have also learned about the User class, how to implement that and also …

Handling Virtual Earth 6.2 “No Bird’s Eye Imagery” Bug

There are locations in Virtual Earth where Bird’s eye Imagery doesn’t exist for certain directional facings.  When a user attempts to rotate the Bird’s eye view when imagery is unavailable for that directional facing, maps.live.com displays a warning message.  Nothing will occur by …

Live Services Jumpstart 2009

Via Mary-Jo Foley and Angus Logan we learn that Microsoft has just aired the site Live Services Jumpstart 2009 for their ‘secret training’ sessions ‘to explore the full breadth of the consumer components of … Live Services’. This 2-day training …