Free: Links to APIs and information about SkyDrive
Doing some research on how to build an app that uses Skydrive, think leaderboard for games, and the search for useful items turned up a bunch of flotsam (which is different than jetsam by the way). So here are some of the links I think might be useful, I have looked at most of them and
Live SDK v5.0
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28195
Download and install the Live SDK
Live Connect Reference
SkyDrive Photo API sample for WP7
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight/SkyDrive-Photo-API-sample-f06778ae
Note on this page there is a mistake:
To get to the application management site to create an application id that can be used for your application. Definitely follow the recommendation to NOT use your “day-to-day” LiveID, or even the ones you use for those “secret” sites you visit (think: Game sites, etc.). Make sure if you do create another liveID that you remember the Password!
Obtaining User Consent
Photos Overview
REST API
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243648.aspx
Need this to understand REST, do right after you take your nap
Skydrive JavaScript API
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243643.aspx
This one is for the JavaScripters!
Windows Live Client Extensibility APIs
Libraries and Controls
Photos Overview
Scopes and permissions
BrandingType enumeration
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.live.brandingtype.aspx
Identity Class
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.live.messenger.identity.aspx
MyActivities Entry
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff750568.aspx
The complete developer's guide to the SkyDrive API (If you are using JavaScript and Windows 8)