– Next, you’ll need a WebBrowser control on the page that you’re going to do the authentication on – this is used to display the Messenger Connect sign in prompt. – Start by adding a reference to the Microsoft.Live and (the one in the attached zip file, not the odata sdk version). So the SDK library is relatively easy to use: Anyhow, enough complaining about the lack of source code publishing by Microsoft (please, please, please Microsoft, stop closed-sourcing these sdk libraries – all it does is frustrate us!). Unfortunately this meant not only reverse engineering the but also the odata sdk library for Windows Phone (as they haven’t made the source available). No so, after quite a painful day yesterday I have got a working library that’s able to authenticate and access contacts and activities (haven’t tested the other functionality yet). I figured it couldn’t be that hard to take the existing library for Silverlight, decompile it thanks to Reflector, update it to work for Windows Phone and we should be good to go. Of course, the team has done a great job of making all the data available via REST but honestly, that’s like trying to write a Windows Phone app in XAML when you have the power of Blend…. Unfortunately, and for those getting into the Windows Phone space you’ll get used to this, there is no library available for accessing the Messenger Connect apis. It appears that Messenger Connect is a great rationalisation of these apis and with libraries to support both rich and web client access, getting started should be easy. For anyone who has worked with any of the Live Id apis in the past it was difficult to get all the information you wanted. Go to the Windows Live developer portal for all the details.

There are a number of updates that are currently in Beta including Messenger and Live Writer but what interests me is the new development platform, Messenger Connect.

Recent Microsoft announced a major update to their Live platform.

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