In this the final installment of this series of tutorials for the moment we will be completing the Web Messenger control by adding the ability for users to actually hold conversations. We will also add some clean-up code, and generally tidy up some things that were left. So first off lets re-visit our...
After a little break due to a very heavy work schedule, we’re back with Part 9 of this mini-series explaining how to create a Web Messenger control that you can just drop into your web sites. It’s hard to believe that we’re currently on Part 9 of this series of tutorials. In the last...
A lot of professional sites are now including a means of real time chat as part of their helpdesk sites. MSDN has their online concierge service, Dell has an online help, AT&T etc. So how do you do this type of thing within your own web site? Well thanks to the Windows Live Web Messenger API it's...
Hopefully you will have read and followed the code from the first part of this article. The first part covered most of base functionality including how to sign in, get the users details and get their contact list. What is left is how to actually carry out a conversation with a contact. If you remember...
The Windows Live team have been busy over the past few months and recently launched the Windows Live Messenger APIs. This is basically split over three parts, the IM Control , the Windows Live Presence API and the Windows Live Messenger Library . What all this allows you to do is to create a Windows...