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Windows Live was the brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform.

Windows Live was the brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform. In April 2013, the website was closed down. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.

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How to get the real Windows Live contact email addresses with the API?

I'm wondering how Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (to name a few) are using the Windows Live API to find the email addresses of the friends of a user to send them invitations. When I try to use the Windows Live API I only get the email_hashes which…
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Windows 8: Login with LiveSDK in extended splash screen

I would like to sign my users already in, while showing up an Extended splash screen. But the Live Sdk throws always an unexpected error! Microsoft.Live.LiveAuthException: An error occurred while performing the operation. Please try again later.…
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Is it possible to get facebook friends via Live SDK?

I can connect my Facebook acount to Windows Live. After that, all my fb friends are imported into Live and I can see them as my contacts. Is it possible to get them somehow using Live SDK? Requesting /me/friends returns only "native" live contacts.
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How to retrieve oAuth Accees token from Redirect Window

I am working on an app where i am communicating to Windows API. I am using oAuth 2.0 for the same. Complete code has been done using JS/HTML5 only. However i am facing one issue, whenever i request for access token, it opens a new windows with my…
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send new email windows live - from command line

I've read this guide in order to create a new email directly with Windows Live Mail from a batch file but I have problem with the double quotes. This is my batch file: @echo off "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Mail\wlmail"…
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Windows Live Login API SSL issue - Python

I'm writing a program to invite several Windows Live Contacts into a web application, all in Django 1.4. I'm experiencing the following problem. I'm able to log the user in Windows Live using his account credentials through the Windows Live REST API…
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Windows Live API oauth 2. Reading a query string that contains page.aspx?#access_token=fhuevhkfu3q9

I been working with OAuth2 to provide authentication techniques on my asp.net 4.0 website using c# in the code behind. I have noticed recently that Windows Live api is no longer working in the code I had made. It is making the call and getting the…
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Live messenger login with silverlight

I need to use windows messenger login to get users authenticated and get their contact details ..display name etc. Currently I am using a DLL from codeplex It works fine. But in IE8 it does not work. IE8 with win 7 or IE8 with XP. So is there any…
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HTML: Cannot align image and text

I have to build a signature, I made some test and it seems pretty okay in the browser. But not in Windows Live Mail and Outlook 2010, it seems they interpretated HTML different from each other. Here are some examples of my problem: GMail: Outlook…
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Connect to https://oauth.live.com/authorize with curl

I'm trying to get windows live connections with php. I Get it with js with w.l. sdk but not with php. This is my code: $CLIENT_ID =variable_get('example_contact_grabber_hotmail_client_id',NULL); $REDIRECT_URL =…
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Hotmail Contact List

Can someone tell me step by step how to get contacts (emails) from Windows Live API in php.. using oauth i have implemented gmail,yahoo,aol easily, but i am unable to implement this. The furthest i have able to go is authenicate a user from live ..…
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Is there any api by which i can login (OpenId) in my web application using windows live Id credential

Hi I want login to my webapplication using windows live ID credential, is there any api or dll available for this?
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Trouble reading Windows Live Contacts Api results in php

I am using windows live contacts api to create find a friend functionality in a PHP 5 application. I am able to get the results fine but it's encoded "deflate". I have tried using gzuncompress to decompress but it returns false. If any one has…
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Ruby rest_client and windows LIVE connect OAUTH Wrap

Hi all I am trying to get my rails app to talk to Windows LIVE (through OAuth Wrap) so I can retrieve a list of contacts. I am using the rest_client gem to do this. Here is the action code for it: def hotmail app_id = 'some_id' app_sec =…
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Creating a way to log in/register an account on a website through Xbox Live

I'm trying to find a way to allow users on my website to log in/create accounts by using their own Xbox Live Accounts through OAuth. I have read a bit here "Windows Live OAuth access XBox Live Info" that you can use the $20 "Xbox Live Creators…
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