Live Alerts & Visual Basic 2005
Hi everyone,
I'd like to know if anybody has some sample code using Visual Basic 2005 to send a Live Alert to Windows Live Messenger.
I'd like to do some research on this topic but am not really sure where I should start.
Are Live Alerts free for business use ?
Thanks,
ST
Thanks MattY for the info. Unfortunatelly it looks like this page is targeted to end users and not really developers.
I'm already signed up for the service but the menu options that show allow me to specify my time zone, my quiet times, etc. I couldn't really find examples on how to generate alerts with an application (VB 2005 in my particular case) and send them to users.
Would you have any other pointers please ?
Thanks for your time,
ST
ST1 at 2007-9-4 >

Thanks again MattY!
I'm still a bit confused... All I need is to keep my customers @hotmail.com addresses in my database and send them alerts everytime an event happens within my system. No blogs, no web pages, just a simple plain Windows VB.2005 application.
Is this possible todo ? I'd guess so...
Thanks,
ST
Thanks again MattY!!!
You said "your users individually must sign-up for alerts from you" so my question now is simple. Do I need to have a web site with some form that sends user's data to Microsoft Alerts page or do I need to register with Microsoft and provide some link (from Microsoft) on my site for the users to register, or is there another way I missed completely?
Is what I'm trying to accomplish odd ? Am I the only one trying to use this service ? :)
Thanks again for your time,
ST