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Let Your Agents Do the Talking

Would you like your product to have a personality of its own on Messenger?  Windows Live Agents are always-on conversational characters that engage Windows Live Messenger users while providing information, completing tasks on your behalf, and entertaining your customers. Agents use Natural Language Processing technology to build a relationship with end-users and to personalize their experience.

 

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New Windows Live Agents Blog Location

Greetings, Windows Live Agents Blog has been moved. New location is: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsliveagents/ Thank you, Windows Live Agents Team.....

PHI Pointers

To ensure that your agent is launched without a hitch in 5.0 using PHI, we have compiled some pointers that will make the process run more smoothly. Registering Your Agent in PHI After you add your agent on PHI, the registration is not completed until you click to apply for hosting. If the project state is still “Initial,” we will not see that you applied for hosting. Hosting Application When you....

PHI Hosting Process

PHI - Hosting Process Partner Hosting Infrastructure, or PHI, is a tool that will allow developers to apply for Microsoft to host their Agent projects. Developers will be able to upload their code, manage projects, and be informed of the current state of their projects. This section will go over the tools that developers have available to them when developing a project, taking it live, and makin....

Visual Studio hints

If you are moving from the old Colloquis IDE to the Visual Studio-based Windows Live Agents SDK, and you've never used Visual Studio, you may be a little lost.  This post aims to collect simple hints and tricks for agent developers new to working with Visual Studio.  This is just a start -- if you have any hints, please do comment, and later on we'll post a sequel.    Also, this is by no means mu....

Definition of Reporting Terms in Usage Reporting in 5.0

When your agent launches, you will be given access to the Knowledge Management Server, which includes a Usage Reporting section. The URL is https://YourProjectName.console.agents.live.com.   When you navigate to the Usage Reporting site, you will see date range options in the left pane, and report results in the right pane.  The default date is the present day.  You can switch days by clicki....