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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Tom's MSDN Belux Corner : Chopsticks</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/tommer/archive/tags/Chopsticks/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Chopsticks</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Coding for Fun: Writing Your Own Windows Live Messenger Agent in 30 Mins</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/tommer/archive/2008/06/12/coding-for-fun-writing-your-own-windows-live-messenger-agent-in-30-mins.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:39:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8592359</guid><dc:creator>tommer</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/tommer/comments/8592359.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/tommer/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8592359</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=454" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=454"&gt;&lt;IMG title="Writing Your Own Windows Live Messenger Agent" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 15px 10px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" height=106 alt="Writing Your Own Windows Live Messenger Agent" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/tommer/WindowsLiveWriter/CodingforFunWritingYourOwnWindowsLiveMes_1769/454_3.jpg" width=140 align=left border=0 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/tommer/WindowsLiveWriter/CodingforFunWritingYourOwnWindowsLiveMes_1769/454_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/A&gt; Fellow Microsoft employee Christof Claessens explains i a MSDN Chopsticks video how you can &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=454" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=454"&gt;create your own Windows Live Messenger agent in 30 minutes&lt;/A&gt;. Although I didn’t try it myself yet, it looks like something to explore during a rainy weekend…&lt;/P&gt;
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