(This article is written by Jolene and Qianting who are both student attachee in the Microsoft Innovation Center-Student Attachment Program)
Windows Live Alerts service helps in delivering timely information to people when they subscribed to the service.
The Windows Live Alerts for RSS feeds does not require development. All you need to do is to add a few lines of code in your website to make it work. We will do a walkthrough on providing link to users, so that people who signed up from your website will receive the latest updates. We will continue with the example that we did earlier on.
To get started, you have to sign up an account for the service. Do remember that you need to have your RSS feed URL as this is for RSS feeds.
After submitting, you will receive an email and it will take you into the final step.
You will then receive another email which will guide you to complete the process.
So in this case, we will paste the sign-up link given in the email in the source page of index.aspx. The result in your index.aspx page will be the design shown in the following:
You can subscribe it clicking the logo when you access the following URL: http://localhost/webauth/sample/default.aspx
Instructions will be give to people who subscribe to this alert. Whenever there is any updates to the Feeds URL, the alerts will then be send out to the subscribers through their hotmail and Windows Live Messenger automatically. Subscribers can also choose to modify the settings or unsubscribe to the alerts any time.