Build a live chat connected with windows live messenger

Question

Live Chat is a very famous tool on websites, and the operators use a special web/windows interface to talk to the clients.

What I want to implement is to specify some email accounts, and when the client click's the live chat and starts typing, his/her instant messages are delivered to the available email account. My operators can talk back to them as if they are on their friends list.

I don't need to require any login or registration for clients to use this Live Chat.

So are there any ideas about how to implement such a thing? Are there any good third-party-modules that already do that?

Answer 1

I don't know if what your looking for is possible. To connect to live messenger I believe always requires registration.

If you just want a LiveChat module, this might help http://livechatstarterkit.codeplex.com/

Answer 2

Would MSNP-Sharp be suitable? I haven't used it but it talks about provisioned accounts for bots, which is what you are basically doing.

Otherwise you would have to use it and create several Live IDs that are automatically used by the website to talk to your operators. Each user that uses the chat would be temporarily assigned that LiveID so you would have to ensure you had enough IDs to cover active chat users.

Answer 3

Take a look at samples for Messenger Connect - http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/messengerconnect there is one that shows how to implement chat on web application.