Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio are a set of control add-ins to make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008.

This release (November CTP) of Windows Live Tools provides basic functionality associated with building websites using Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live ID authentication, LoginView and Silverlight streaming. This release also provides a project template for creating Windows Live website.

Download the Community Technical Preview of Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 

ASP.NET Server Controls

Contacts

The Contacts control allows developers to include Windows Live Contacts into their web pages. The control provides the ability to raise client and server events for sign-in/sign-out and data transfer activities. It also allows the developer's webpage to get word of mouth through viral traffic.

SilverlightStreamingMedia

The SilverlightStreamingMedia control extends the ASP.NET Futures Media control by allowing you to play videos from your Silverlight Streaming account. Now at design time, you can specify your account credentials and choose the video you want to display on your web pages.

IDLogin

The IDLogin control quickly allows you to provision Windows Live ID authentication for your application. Now you drag and drop the control on your web page, provision your Application ID, and compile/run the project. This also provides for client/server side events for sign-in/sign-out user actions, a property to maintain your application context, and properties to specify background/foreground colors to mesh with your web page.

IDLoginView

IDLoginView extends the functionality of the ASP.NET LoginView control by adding support for Windows Live ID authentication. It allows you to associate a Windows Live ID with an ASP.NET membership profile to provide a single sign-on experience for your web site users. It adds new templates to provide richness in your web site based on the login state of your web site user.

Visual Studio Project Template

ASP.NET Windows Live Web Site

A template for an ASP.NET website using Windows Live so you can now start using some of the power leveraged from Windows Live in your ASP.NET application with greater ease.

Enjoy!

Via US ISV Developer Evangelism Team, LiveSide.net, Angus Logan's Blog