All the things you can do with Windows Live API tools (aka Messenger Connect). In the table, the right-hand side provides demo's in different flavours dependent on your setup and requirements.
A good place to start is the getting started guide (v5.0) which explains a basic signin to grant your application permission to perform the actions in this table.
Quick demos |
deep links |
V5.0 (start guide) | V4.1 (start guide) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <wl:*> Widgets | MC Javascript API | Custom/REST | |||
| Authentication | |||||
| Signin, create a signin button | demo, demo | demo | demo, demo2 | demo | |
| Signed in state (retrieve and monitor) | demo | ||||
| Is Live user? (detects before signin) | demo | ||||
| Get my Profile (name, email, picture, etc...) | demo | demo, demo2 | demo | demo | |
| Contacts/Friends | |||||
| Get a list of my friends | demo | demo | demo | ||
| Send Email to a friend | demo | ||||
| Send IM to a friend | demo | ||||
| Activities, Publish Status/Micro-Blogging | |||||
| Get my Activities | demo | ||||
| Get friends Activities | demo | ||||
| Publish status message | demo | demo | demo | demo | |
| Publish a bookmark link | demo | ||||
| Publish a link to a video | demo | ||||
| Publish a link to a picture | demo | ||||
| Publish a comment to an article | demo | ||||
| Chat/IM | |||||
| Public chat widget | demo | demo | demo | ||
| Bar widget | demo | demo | |||
| Calendar | |||||
| View Calendar events | demo | ||||
| Post a Calendar event | demo | demo | |||
| Photos | |||||
| View Photos | demo | demo | |||
Mashups of the Messenger Connect API, might be more your thing... here are some crackin' examples
| Mashup | Description | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Share via email | A form and an autocomplete contact picker which can be used to send emails | 5.0 |
| Group chat | Hold multiple chats. Drag friends in for a group chat | 4.1 |
| Friend Map | Plots friends on a bing map | 4.1 |
| Share via email | A form and an autocomplete contact picker which can be used to send emails | 4.1 |
| Chat Widget | Chat widget | 3.7 |