Live SDK provides a set of controls and APIs that enable applications to integrate single sign-on (SSO) with Microsoft accounts and access information from SkyDrive and Outlook.com on Windows Phone and Windows 8.
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Onedrive API vs LiveSDK
I am developing for WP8.1 and probably will port on other platforms.
I want to integrate a OneDrive functionality, however, I can't understand what is the difference between LiveSDK (from NuGet packages) and OneDrive API.
It seems that Microsoft…

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Microsoft Live API - The access token isn't valid
I'm trying to implement "login with Outlook.com" flow, which involves client and server code.
The flow is:
from the client redirect the user to:
https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=< client_id >&response_type=code&redirect_uri=<…

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Get contact's phone numbers and emails using the Windows Live/OneDrive REST API
Has anyone successfully used the Live SDK (also called OneDrive SDK) to retrieve the email addresses and/or phone numbers of an user's contacts ?
The best I have been able to do is the get profiles for a users contacts but it only includes hashed…

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Receiving Refresh Token from Windows Live SDK in Universal Windows App
I'm developing an universal windows app (Windows 10) where I have a "Two-Layered" App: On IoT-Devices (e.g. Raspberry Pi 2) it just displays content, but on all other Devices (PC, Notebook, Smartphone, etc.) you have something like an controller for…

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LiveAuthClient CanLogout always false?
I ran into this issue just recently when I wanted to test my app with multiple live ids. I have an Azure Mobile Service that I use the live id with. Basically I remember being asked for whether the app can use my credentials or not at least once.…

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MS Graph VS Outlook REST APIs, OAuth, Win Store / UWP, Xamarin, WebAPI, SSO, Live SDK deprecated - confusion
After hours of googling, reading MS documentation and code samples, I am now just more confused, and in need of some architectural advice.
Basically I need to work out which APIs are applicable and how to start with them.
Background
I have an…

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"SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol" Error Trying to Reach Outlook smtp Server
I'm trying to send emails from an Outlook account in my iOS application. I'm using Mailcore2 and Outlook's Live-SDK. I am able to receive emails, but get an error when I try to send emails: "a stable connection to the server could not be…

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Live Connect APIs deprecated?
For our website we have an option to login with your Microsoft ID. This website uses the Live Connect APIs for authentication and retrieving identity information. We use the following API urls: https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf and…

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No email data returned with wl.signin,wl.emails scopes
I am using the https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-windowslive NPM package to implement Microsoft account authentication for my NodeJS app. Recently (since 22 April), I have been seeing a few cases in my server logs that show a user trying to…

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How to get profile detail Using OneDrive API Android
I am using OneDrive compile('com.onedrive.sdk:onedrive-sdk-android:1.0.2') version
and trying to get Profile pic and email detail from IOneDriveClient but not found a way to get this.
Profile Pic
Email
Please help to get these detail.

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How are Microsoft account JWT authentication tokens signed?
In my web application I need to validate the JWT authentication tokens which I get from Live SDK 5.6.
A while ago the signature of those tokens was a HMACSHA256 hash of base64 encoded header+payload using signing key which was the app secret (from…

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Implementation of GetExternalLoginInfoAsync differs from LiveAuthClient.GetUserId(authToken)?
Can anyone help shed some light on the implementation of the Live SDK (v5.6) vs what's happening in the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin.dll ?
The user id returned after successful authentication by the following:
//MVC5 UserController for SSO with…

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LiveConnectClient.BackgroundUploadAsync, is not working when phone not connected to usb
I'm trying to use LiveConnectClient.BackgroundUploadAsync in wp8, to upload copy of some data.
Her is my code:
var progress = new Progress();
progress.ProgressChanged += progress_ProgressChanged;
try
{
LiveOperationResult…

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LiveSDK: C# how to get file size before downloading
I was wondering to how to get file size from Skydrive before dowloading so that app may decide to to download or not according to the file size.
Thanks!

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How to copy file from isolated storage to skydrive
I need to backup data from my WP7 app to Skydrive, this file is xml file. I know how to connect to skydrive and how to create folder on skydrive:
try
{
var folderData = new Dictionary();
folderData.Add("name", "Smart GTD…

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