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Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit

Date: 26 April 2009 | Posted by: xholax

If you’re a Windows Live Messenger customer, you’ve probably downloaded Messenger to your PC and can easily chat with your contacts from there. But sometimes, you’re away from your PC – you might be at school or work or somewhere where you can’t install new programs (like at an Internet kiosk). And at other times, you might be surfing websites and want to start a chat right from the webpage, without having to open a new window. The new Windows Live Messenger web bar is an easy way to get to Messenger straight from a website through a small bar that the website can add to the bottom of their pages:

At the right end of the Messenger web bar, you can click the user tile to see both:

* Your usual Windows Live Messenger contacts
* Your contacts and friends from that website

And for any of your available contacts, you can start up a chat that will be tabbed along the bottom – like the chat with Diego shown below.

Dev Live

http://dev.live.com/messenger

MSDN doc

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd570035.aspx

Windows Live Messenger UI Controls

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd570061.aspx

Windows Live Messenger Library

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298458.aspx

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