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Custom Display Names in IM Control

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The IM Control enables you to embed a Messenger chat experience into your web site or blog. When people visit your web site, they are able to send you instant messages when you're online. When they send these messages, they are prompted to provide a display name that you'll see when they contact you. Up until this point, the default name that has been populated is a localized version of "Visitor." We recently added support for enabling you to override the value that is shown to one that you choose. This is particularly useful if your site already supports authentication since you can now provide a display name for the user who is initiating the conversation. You can see this behavior in action in our Windows Live Messenger for Facebook application.

To provide the display name, use the query string parameter 'inviterDisplayName' and be sure to URL-encode the value that you provide. We'll be updating our documentation soon to cover this functionality in more detail. As always, please let us know if you have any feedback.

Thanks,
Steve

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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2008
    PingBack from http://wordnew.acne-reveiw.info/?p=11611

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2008
    I really need to stop learning about things from Live mesh side . Picturepan from Livesino hit me on

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2008
    Nice future, but I see it useless because users easily can change specified name manually in appeared inputbox before conversation. Why not just skip this step if username is specified in url?

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2008
    Hi Steve, nice feature... Any reason why it does NOT work on Microsoft's own blogging plattform (live spaces)? ... Cheers, Franz

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2008
    hey it's a cool feature ...how can we customize display names????

  • Anonymous
    August 19, 2008
    I am pleased to announce our first major upgrade to the Messenger Facebook application . Through development

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2009
    It has been just over a year since we announced the release of the IM Control and Presence API . I wanted

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2009
    When you run the small online installer and it downloads the required files from Internet, it actually downloads the full setup on your computer. So you can save that full installer at a safe place for future use.