We're happy to announce the release of the Community Technical Preview for Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio -- a set of controls that make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web app easier using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008. The four controls for this CTP are: the Contacts Control, the IDLogin Control, the IDLoginView Control, and the SilverlightStreamingMedia Control.

We're pretty excited about the Visual Studio integration, so we hope you try them out and give us your feedback through our Connect site.

Also, head over to Angus Logan's blog to find a PowerPoint deck from his recent TechEd Europe presentation.