Windows Live Messenger Developer Blog

Hi! If you follow Windows Live, then you know that we have just released a new Beta of Windows Live with great new features including a new version of Messenger. We also announced an expanded 3rd party platform called Messenger Connect that includes...

Sites that are using ASP.NET 3.5 or ASP.NET 4.0 Ajax Extensions (The ScriptManager , UpdatePanel and other controls) may run into a conflict when using version 3.7 of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit . The conflict occurs because ASP.NET Ajax Extensions...

With the release of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.7 we are now distinguishing between levels of browser support – full and limited. Going forward, fully supported browsers should behave consistently across all scenarios while limited support...

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) Version 3.7 in all markets! V3.7 improves the Messenger Web Toolkit by adding the following. Offline IM - Users can now IM offline contacts, just like...

Have you ever wondered how well the Messenger Web Toolkit scales? What if we told you it scales enough for some of the largest web sites in the world? Well it does! Hotmail and MSN both depend on the Messenger Web Toolkit to offer instant messaging functionality...

We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announce the availability of the Messenger Web Toolkit v3...

Dernek.ba is a popular social website based in Bosnia and Herzegovina with several hundred thousand users as of February 2009. By adding the toolkit to their website, Dernek.ba now has given its large user base the option to instant message their friends...

Ever wanted to see what’s possible (and even write code) with web controls just by clicking a few times in the browser? That is exactly what you can do with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit Interactive SDK ( WLT iSDK ) . You can: Sign into the Messenger...

On August 10th, we are migrating all Windows Live Messenger Library version 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5 sites to Windows Live Messenger Library version 3.1. No action is required on your part. For more information about this change, check out the first reminder...

Hey this is James Senior here, Microsoft's Social Web Evangelist . I work on all our Web Platform and Social related technologies and I'm excited to let you all know about some tutorials we have released. A common misconception is that the cool functionality...

LiveJournal.com is a large online community where users can keep a blog, journal or diary. It currently has millions of users, from USA, Russia, Canada and other countries. By integrating the Windows Live Messenger Library into their site, LiveJournal...

On August 10th, we are migrating all Windows Live Messenger Library version 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5 sites to Windows Live Messenger Library version 3.1. For sites that are using one of these versions of the Windows Live Messenger Library, no work is required...

Hello! Hallo! Guten Tag! Buenos días! Hola! Alo! Hallå! It’s just a selection of some of the languages the UI controls are now available in. We are very excited to announce that in total over 40 new languages are available for the UI Controls, as well...

  Like Bing’s great multimedia search?  Did you know other companies are innovating in the multimedia search space? Today Photobucket announced their own way to push the boundaries of visual search . They combined a killer user experience (based...

Getting people to your website is critical (D’uh!). New people. Old people. A constant flow of sharing and content discovery is required to succeed. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about two complementary user acquisition/engagement techniques: sharing...

With the release of the Messenger Web Toolkit we are providing a new Interactive SDK at http://messenger.mslivelabs.com . This should be one of the first places developers go when starting out with the Messenger Web Toolkit. Using the Interactive SDK...

Where can you go on a Wednesday night, have beer and pizza, and talk to the people that built the Messenger Web Toolkit? Why, that would be the Live Services Hackathon for Messenger on May 27th in San Francisco! Come join us, meet business shakers and...

With the updates released this week , I would like to take some time to talk about styling the UI Controls, and perhaps more importantly, about how not to style the UI controls. What is important to understand about the UI controls is that they are powered...

Hi, We want to let you know that we have rolled out an update to the Messenger Web Toolkit. With this update, The Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls should work better in IE6 We have changed the sign in text from “IM Here” to “Sign In” to make it more...

Hi everyone! Last month, while we were busy launching the Messenger Web Toolkit beta at Mix09, Hotmail quietly introduced its Web IM feature in a few markets. Yesterday, Hotmail Web IM became available in a lot more markets, including Brazil, Canada...

[This is a guest blog post by Ed Kaim. Ed runs SharpLogic , a technology consultancy in Redmond, WA, that specializes in using Microsoft platform technology to build RIAs. SharpLogic has worked with the Messenger API from its earliest days to build collaborative...

The Windows Live Messenger Library 3.0 , that is included in the latest release of the Messenger Web Toolkit , introduces a few user experience improvements. The previous versions of the Messenger Library used session based messaging for IM conversations...

Getting Users Engaged One of the biggest challenges that User Generated Content sites face is getting users to participate.  Users need to feel engaged and comfortable on a site before they choose to spend their time writing comments, uploading photos...

The Messenger Web Bar shipped with the recent release of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit . The Web Bar provides a very usable default instant messaging experience for web sites – it includes a contact list, a profile area, and support for displaying...

The latest release of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit not only makes it easier than ever to add great social capabilities to any web site, it also introduces few capabilities that make the Windows Live Messenger Library more powerful and extends...