Trevin Chow

Microsoft Group Program Manager and Seattle Photographer

Windows Live ID client SDK released

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My old team, Windows Live ID, just released the much anticipated SDK for connected rich-clients in an alpha release.  Strange that this big news hasn’t been mentioned on their team blog or on Dev.live.com yet.

“We are excited to introduce the alpha version of Windows Live ID for client applications!
The Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK provides a managed API for Windows Live sign-in authentication. Included in the release is a sample application with its source code, so that you can build your own client applications.

The benefits of implementing the Windows Live ID authentication service include:

  • No need to worry about the technical details of authentication! The Windows Live ID authentication service manages this process for you.
  • Don’t bother worrying about how to store and retrieve user account information! The Windows Live ID service uses the same functionality as Messenger to cache the user name and/or password for use in subsequent user sign ins.
  • Forget about creating, storing, and maintaining user accounts! The Windows Live ID service hosts and manages the Web flows and account services to enable account sign up, credential viewing and updating, and profile management.
  • Gain hundreds of millions of potential users of your application! By enabling Windows Live accounts direct sign in to your application, anyone with a Windows Live ID can become a user of your product.”

You can download the SDK here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=347.  Send me links to any cool applications you create with it!

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Written by Trevin

February 2nd, 2007 at 11:32 pm

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  • Thanks for getting in touch with me. Unfortuantely I'm no longer on the Live ID team. I figured you would have guessed that by the blog post since I said "My old team" :)

    As you said, there is no current functionality to do any account changes between your Xbox gamertag and the Live ID you linked to it.

    I'm not sure what is planned in the future for this area as I'm no longer on the team, sorry I can't help you futher.

    Your best bet is to try contacting customer support, leaving a comment on the Live ID blog or a msg on their developer forum.

    Note: In my quick glance around, I see you've posted this same message/comment in multiple places. You should limit how many times you post this around otherwise it'll be perceived as spam.
  • Trevin,

    I'm having a heck of a time trying to contact you - sorry to hassle you on your own blog but here goes.

    I am curious who within Microsoft I need to email to discuss how passport.net / liveID handles Xbox Live account linking as well as email address changing.
    This is all within the 'backend' of the system and unfortunately not available to customers right now.

    I myself would like to do some stuff with my gamertag as well as my email address and unfortunately, to my knowledge the system simply doesn't accomodate what I want.

    I do realise it's trivial stuff but it would be nice to know if there are any changes planned in future.


    If you could direct me to who I need to ask (or if it's you?) I'd appreciate it.

    Let me know, I'd appreciate a response very much, be it email, comment on the blog or well anything.
  • Sarah: Best way to motivate you is giving you a good kick in the butt :)
  • Sarah Faulkner
    Talk about speaking too soon -- we updated our blog same-day! And it was on dev.live homepage on the monday after the friday it was made public. Thanks for the public criticism mentor, really motivational...
  • Thanks, took me forever to migrate over since there was no easy way to get the content of my old posts out of WL Spaces.

    Live ID licensing is simliar to the old Passport model, but I know they are actively pursuing ways to get 3rd party developers on-board. The more relevant thing is that now so many WinLive services have APIs and seem to be adding authenticated APIs, it makes more sense for them to open up the auth system (ie. the 3rd parties don't need to adopt LiveID authentication on their websites to benefit from this).
  • Nice new blog dude. :)

    Oh and LiveID Client stuff - nice... How is it licensed? Like Passport was, or different?
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