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July 2008 - Posts

Messenger Library V2.0 available now!

We are happy to announce that Windows Live Messenger Library 2.0 (WLML 2.0) is available immediately. We encourage everyone to try it out. WLML 2.0 is backward compatible with WLML 1.0. In addition, the V1.0 API continues to be available with no changes. Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:15 PM by KeijiK | 11 Comments
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IM Control presence issues addressed

We are happy to report that we have addressed an issue where users showed offline in the IM Control and Presence API even when they were online. This happened if the user was signed in with the Messenger client for an extended period. If you continue Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:22 PM by KeijiK | 2 Comments
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Messenger Library on Linerider.com

Line Rider recently released a new version of their popular game which incorporates the use of the Windows Live Messenger Library. For the uninitiated, Line Rider is a Silverlight-based game that involves drawing one or more lines/tracks on which a boy Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:33 AM by KeijiK | 3 Comments
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Custom Display Names in IM Control

The IM Control enables you to embed a Messenger chat experience into your web site or blog. When people visit your web site, they are able to send you instant messages when you're online. When they send these messages, they are prompted to provide a display Read More...
Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 1:40 PM by Steve Gordon | 8 Comments
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Localhost Support in Messenger Library

If you've developed an application with the Messenger Library, you're probably aware that when you are testing your application locally, in the past you've had to go through the trouble of providing a hosts entry with a valid domain name and then using Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:29 AM by Steve Gordon | 1 Comments
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New Language Support

Just recently, we added two new markets to the IM Control and Messenger Library. The languages that we added, namely Hebrew and Arabic, are unique in that they are the first right-to-left languages we have supported. For developers that have handled globalization Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:26 AM by Steve Gordon | 8 Comments
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