Windows Live ID SDK, seriously

Does it exist? Is the team still working on it? Is there any news at all?

For something that seems critical to the MS Live ecosystem being adopted by developers, it sure seems like its been all but abandoned. According to earlier statements, the SDK should either have been released by now /or/ be released in the next few weeks.

What's going on?

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# 1

The Live ID blog may be the best place to find an answer... even though they haven't updated it in a lil while.

BrendanGrant at 2007-9-7 >

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# 2

I've been. It looks like the last time the blog was updated was when Trevin Chow was still on the team; he's moved on since then, and there's been a dearth of news.

Looking through other team member's blogs, there's no mention of any progress on this technology front - seriously, it looks like the project is dead. I don't believe it is, but come on - some word, update, or something. Will there be an SDK? Ever?

netshade at 2007-9-7 >

# 3

Hey, sorry for being quiet for a while; we were busy working on our release. (We recently released our Live ID 4.5 release!) Live ID client SDK project is definitely not dead. We are very close to releasing it and we will update you very soon. Thanks for being patient and it is great to see your interest.

Thanks,
- Vivek

VivekNirkhe at 2007-9-7 >

# 4

So what's the ETA?

Can this SDK be used for Web Apps? (For Passport authentication in ASP.NET?)

sectrean at 2007-9-7 >

# 5

Any update on the release? All of the Live ID developer sites say that it will be released in Fall 2006 but I haven't found a download link for the SDK?

Thanks,

EdBlankenship at 2007-9-7 >

# 6

For those interested, the Windows Live Id SDK is momentarly in Alpha stage and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Connect web site:

Windows Live ID Client 1.0 SDK Alpha Release

GabrielLozano-Moran at 2007-9-7 >

# 7

Ok great I think the SDK is cool and all, but can we have some info on how it can be used in ASP,J#,C++ and VB.NET. Don't even need the code just the procedure on calls and usage would be good. Please give us more to work with then ..."Look what we can do"

Weavor at 2007-9-7 >

# 8

The Client SDK is designed for use from Windows Forms applications, not web applications. Is there a specific Windows Forms based scenario you are curious about? Please post more details and I will try to answer your questions.

JoshBrown-MSFT at 2007-9-7 >

# 9

Specific Windows Forms scenario: we don't need Windows forms, we need Web Forms!

Aleksey777 at 2007-9-7 >

# 10

Your words are not falling on deaf ears. I hear you! And I will be taking your message to the team. Thanks for your enthusiasm.

JoshBrown-MSFT at 2007-9-7 >

# 11

we would like to use WIndows Live in Forms Authentication with Reporting Services. Our users are in one domain that is not trusted by the domain that owns our servers. Could we do a silent authenticate from the login form? THen we can assign the appropriate role based on our lookup scheme for the authenticated user. Is this plausible.

Don.Frazier at 2007-9-7 >

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