Getting started

Live Connect provides a set of APIs that enable your apps to work with info in Outlook.com, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft SkyDrive, and other services that are compatible with Live Connect. Here's what you can do with these APIs, how to get the settings that your apps need to call the APIs, and how to begin writing code to call the APIs.

Identity API

• Profiles. Get a user's profile info. A profile includes info that a user provides about himself or herself, such as first name, last name, gender, and birth date.
• Personalization. Enable a user to sign in to a website, personalize the signed-in user's experience on that website, and easily register a user on that website.

To learn more, see Identity API.

Hotmail API

• Contacts. Read and create contacts. You can also enable a website to determine which of a user's contacts is also a user of that website.
• Calendars. Work with calendars and events.

To learn more, see Outlook.com API.

SkyDrive API

• Folders, files, and more. Work with folders, files, albums, photos, videos, audio, tags, and comments.

To learn more, see SkyDrive API.

Learn more

To get going, start here:

• What's new

  What's new in the latest releases.

• Configuring your app

  How to get the settings your apps need to begin calling the Live Connect APIs.

• Windows Store apps

  How Windows Store apps can call the Live Connect APIs.

• Windows Phone apps

  How Windows Phone apps can call the Live Connect APIs.

• iOS apps

  How apps for the iOS operating system for Apple devices can call the Live Connect APIs.

• Android apps

  How apps for the Google Android mobile technology platform can call the Live Connect APIs.

• Web apps

  How client-side and server-side websites and scripts can call the Live Connect APIs.

• Working with the code examples

  How to work with the smaller code examples throughout this documentation in the context of larger reference code samples.

• Mobile and Windows desktop apps

  How mobile apps and Windows desktop apps can call the Live Connect APIs.

• Community resources

  Links to helpful tools, code samples, blogs, and more.

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Build date: 5/15/2013