Microsoft has released a CTP of Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio. These tools are a set of controls and add-ins created to simplify development for Windows Live platform using Visual Studio. At present there are six controls bundled with this CTP release.

1. Map Control
2. Contacts Control
3. IDLoginStatus Control
4. IDLoginView Control
5. MessengerChat Control
6. SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer control

This CTP will work with Visual Studio 2008. You can download it here.