A while back, we published a whitepaper on MSDN that provides what we called a "tour de ease" of some basic API features. Subsequently, some of you have requested that we offer this useful doc in a more portable format, so - voila! It's done and downloadable at our Developer Center from the API Basics link, under "Useful Resources." Click it, download it, develop an app or two with it.

One of the most satisfying aspects of managing the Live Search API is helping our team expand the already-rich diversity of programming opportunities that our multiple protocols and SourceTypes provide. This particular paper illustrates how you can leverage the appropriate combination of these protocols and SourceTypes to create applications that grow your business, yet enable you to code at the level of complexity with which you're comfortable.

Beyond growing your business, the new Will Code for Green contest offers you incentives to put the API to broader uses. Five developers will take home cash from this contest - will one of them be you? The contest runs until August 12 - use the whitepaper to get started today!

-- Alessandro Catorcini, Lead Program Manager, Live Search API