A few months ago at Mix 09, the Windows Live Team launched a number of exciting new additions under the Windows Live Web Toolkit. One of which was the Windows Live Web Toolbar. This toolbar allows you include presence information into your site as well as other social experiences.

In this tutorial I will show you just how easy it is to incorporate the Web Toolbar into your own site.

First of all, you need to have access to the Windows Azure development portal. In order to use the Web Toolbar you need to register with Azure and receive an application ID and secret Key :-

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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 actually quite easy to do.

In previous articles I've covered how to incorporate Windows Live Messenger into your own site. This article simply takes that process one step further by allowing you to host your own online Helpdesk chat system.

The code in this article is actually very similar to the code in the previous articles I've posted and so I won't be going over all the functions again, instead I will point out the differences between this application and the previous one. ...