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Today at work I was asked to investigate a problem with contacts export from Hotmail.
It was working last month when i wrote the library. For my surprise it indeed was not working. I investigated a bit and i noticed that Microsoft has done some updates to their API. The scopes were changed ... and the permissions that comes with the scopes. Here is the line that bothered me

WL_Contacts.View - View information about a user and the user's friends, with the exception of email addresses.

They stripped the priviledge of obtaining contacts email addresses :(
What i have to do in order to get the e-mails back so i can use my exporter again ?
Do you have problems with your contacts importers ? If not, what are you using ? Which scopes ? Are you doing separate requests for each user ?

aynber
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  • I've read somewhere that i can submit my application for approval to Microsoft but i can't find it :( Do you have any idea where i can do that ? – Sk1ppeR Jun 08 '11 at 11:38

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First of all, you can find tons of information about the new Windows Live Connect API here.

Here you can find version 5 of the API documentation.

If you want to sign up and create a Application you can do that here.

I hope this is enough to get you started (unless you've already found the provided links).

Mrtn
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  • Hmm thanks for the information. Sorry that i can't vote you up I don't yet have enough rating ... lol – Sk1ppeR Aug 09 '11 at 10:19
  • Hmm ok another issue now. I had found free time to get this thing working. Corrected some stuff but i now receive "email hashes" ... lol. Not real emails :/ For some users i have IDs but i get empty results when i try to get info about them. Do you have any ideas how to access the user's email This is pissing me so much that i'm about to write a msn messenger client just to download the contacts >.> – Sk1ppeR Aug 12 '11 at 15:22
  • This doesn't give a specific answer to the problem. How does one go about getting a list of contact emails through this api? – rjkaplan Jul 31 '12 at 02:17