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Windows Live was the brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform.

Windows Live was the brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform. In April 2013, the website was closed down. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.

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How do I get a user's contacts email data from Windows Live?

I know there are similar questions, but bear with me... I've hit similar problems to other questioners regarding only getting hashed versions of contact email addresses, and understand why. The thing is, I've noticed that google+ appear to be able…
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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 profile picture from windows live

window live api I can get user infomation, contacts, friends through the windows live api correctly. but when i request for the user profile picture according to the following note: Note To redirect a GET call to the URL of a user's picture, you…
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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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How can I force re-authentication with the Windows Live OAuth API?

Is there a parameter I can pass to https://oauth.live.com/authorize that will force the user to login again? The problem is if the user is logged in, it will redirect transparently back to my site, even if the user wants to use a different Windows…
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How do I programmatically access the facial recognition cache in Windows Live Photo Gallery with SQL?

I'm not talking about the "people tags" embeded in the XMP packets of JPEGs. I'm talking about the face database used to recognize new faces. I want to add to my program the option to recognize faces using the already trained database of WLPG. I…
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Windows Live OAuth access XBox Live Info

So, I'm working on a website, and I want users to be able to log in with their xbox account to link their gamer tag to my site. I can use oauth like this: But, I can't figure out how to get xbox live permissions. Other sites that do this have…
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Using Live Connect API in ASP.NET to retrieve a user's email address

So I am fairly new to ASP.NET MVC and Windows Live Connect API. Basically I am trying to integrate Live sign in into my website. When users sign in, Live requests their permission to give my app certain info, sends the user to a redirect uri…
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The provided value for the input parameter 'redirect_uri' is not valid

I keep receiving this error from windows live The provided value for the input parameter 'redirect_uri' is not valid. The expected value is 'https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf' or a URL which matches the redirect Why do I keep…
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Windows Live ID in ASP.NET MVC

does anyone know is there a way to implement Windows Live ID authentication into your ASP.NET MVC site. There is some info about OpenID implementations and it uses some libraries. So is there a way to implement Live ID or it is not yet…
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How to implement Windows Live ID Actions with ASP.NET AJAX

OK, so I'm working on an ASP.NET webapp with AJAX and the Windows Live ID SDK. I've successfully gotten it to authenticate via Live, however... The Windows Live ID spec indicates that I have to look for request headers "login", "logout", and…
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Windows Live Open ID Connect/Oauth 2.0 How to use for SSO with Apache mod_auth_openidc

I've got mod_auth_openidc working with Google and a hand rolled version of phpOIDC as my OP with the mod_auth_openidc as my identity provider. My problem appears to be a bug in the Microsoft implementation. mod_auth_openidc is a great mod and does…
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Visual Studio 2013 Sign in error

I randomly get the following error when clicking on "Sign in". Sometimes it persists for hours. I don't even have a chance to enter my login credentials. Identity providers could not be loaded from ACS. Does anyone have an idea?
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Windows Live API connexion issue

I'm trying to get a user's contact through Windows Live js API. I've read the official documentation, but I'm having trouble performing a simple connexion. Here is what I've made : WL.init({ client_id: 'myclientId', redirect_uri:…
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Windows Live popup window

When I use code like this at the start of a web page WL.init({ client_id: "0000000040102460", redirect_uri: document.URL, scope: "wl.signin", response_type: "token" }); WL.login().then( function (response)…
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