A Calendar update for LiveSide (thanks to MSDN) just in time for a big year of Microsoft news

Back in 2009, the Hotmail guys published a blog post detailing how to get an embedded calendar for your website using Windows Live (now Hotmail) Calendar, and we’ve been using that little iframe snippet ... Read more »

Can you build a better Messenger? Live Connect moves towards open standards

Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, Dare Obasanjo lays out the current Microsoft story for open standards support on the Live Connect Platform, and highlighting Messenger’s publicly available access via XMPP.  In Dare’s ... Read more »

Updated Live Connect API announced

An Inside Windows Live blog post today announces that a new version of the Live Connect set of APIs for connecting applications to SkyDrive as well as contacts and calendar is now available, along ... Read more »

iPhone and Android developers get more guidance and a tool to port apps to Windows Phone

There already were guides for Android, help for iPhone developers (and Symbian QT) but now there is even more guidance based on migration samples and a SQLLite to SQL Server Compact database conversion tool. ... Read more »

Yesterday, Mango: today, Windows Phone SDK RTW

The Mango blog post on the Windows Phone blog hinted as much, but a new blog post on the Windows Phone Developer blog makes it official: I’m pleased to announce that the Windows Phone ... Read more »

How to port Symbian QT apps to Windows Phone 7

Microsoft and Nokia worked together to provide a package that will guide Nokia Symbian Developers to learn Windows Phone development. The package includes: The “Windows Phone Guide for Symbian Qt Application Developers” white paper, ... Read more »

Microsoft updates Mango for devs (but not to RTM); includes Twitter integration, more?

This morning, as promised, Microsoft released an updated version of Windows Phone Mango, available to developers who are willing to shell out $99 for an App Hub membership, allowing them to submit apps for ... Read more »

Windows Phone developers to get new “Mango” build tomorrow?

Microsoft just signed off on the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build of their latest Windows Phone OS 7.5, codenamed “Mango”, less than 24 hours ago. Cliff Simpkins, Senior Product Manager on the Windows Phone ... Read more »

Devs getting lots of love today: Azure, Mango, Windows Live announcements

A trio of announcements for developers (and developer wannabes) today coming from various parts of Microsoft, all intending to make it easier to write and deploy your apps.  We’ll start with Windows Live, because, ... Read more »

Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Microsoft has made available to developers the second IE10 platform preview. With the second Platform Preview, developers can start working with several site-ready HTML5 technologies for building beautiful, interactive Web applications with great performance ... Read more »