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Windows Live Agents Testing: Introduction

Developing a Windows Live Agent is much like developing any software solution. Your team creates code, you test it, the customer tests it from the user side, you fix bugs and add functionality, and the cycle goes on until you're finished. Although...

Accessing CSS elements via JS quick how-to

This is a small quick reminder of how to access CSS style properties (and, as a bonus, how to detect Internet Explorer version from javascript and switch from PNG to GIFs to avoid not having transparency in IE versions less than 7). Having this image...

Messenger instant chat HTML tags

Mini-post as reminder. The four special HTML tags to allow chatting with a contact or Agent from an hiperlink, add it to your contact list and other stuff: <a href="msnim:chat?contact=sample@email.com">Chat</a> <a href="msnim...

Windows Live Agents: Default topics & capabilities

Today I've had to build a list for a customer of what topics a default agent supports (and should be revised by the customer to adapt their agent to their wishes). The list is based on the english template (with chitchat & userinfo modules activated...

Windows Live Agents: Reading XML element attributes

One missing feature of the Windows Live Agents SDK, at least on the documentation, was the hability to read xml element properties. Being so oriented to XML parsing and handling it should be possible... So by digging in the old SDK forums I found it....

Messenger Presence API Exposed }:)

Today has been a great day, Messenger control for web plus presence API . The second one was a simple URL to query messenger.services.live.com and get a user's online status image. Not bad... but could be better! Playing a bit, I found that you can...