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Greetings Developers and Partners of Windows Live Agents, We are very pleased to announce that WLA 5.1 is here! It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce WLA 5.1 is the last WLA release. We are retiring our product and this final version is better
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Windows Live Agents SDK offers the ability to self host your agent for development and testing purposes. Limited number of license sessions is granted per service (common-service, MSN, etc) per month. License session limits are imposed per license certificate;
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As an Agents developer, you need to be able to handle and present data accurately and efficiently. There are many string parsing, manipulation, and examination functions in the Buddyscript arsenal. Many are of the standard variety that are found in most
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Today we're going to talk again about debugging your agent's inner workings, but this time through the use of debug output instead of the step-by-step debugger. This is generally where you want to go to check up on what's happening behind the scene if
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Hello, We are starting to plan our 5.2 Windows Live Agents SDK release. Even though we have many ideas and directions that we can take the SDK, we would love to hear what kind of improvements and features you would like to see! Please email your suggestions
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Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available! The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and
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Greetings, We are pleased to announce that a new version of WLA SDK is now available for download. Please use http://agents.live.com/ to download SDK. Thank you, Windows Live Agents team
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Depending on the complexity of your Agent, you might want to add debug code right of the bat. That makes it easier (and less painful) to find issues you will come across. Look for examples further down the post. How to debug your Agent: Syntax: break
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In 5.0, we introduced a new set of features collectively called Runtime Policy Compliance . We designed Compliance to help developers comply with security policies that address potentially offensive input and output in an agent. You can get a more detailed
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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
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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
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This is a continuation on An Advanced Look at Web Services and DataSources. The original entry is located here: http://windowsliveagents.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5BCD45E519E07634!711.entry Now let’s take a look at the datasource itself. The datasource
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An advanced look at Web Services and Datasources Back in February, we showed a basic example of accessing a web service and using a datasource to consume information from a web service. (Refer to: http://windowsliveagents.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5BCD45E519E07634!443.entry
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As compared to Web sites and traditional software applications, conversational agents are subject to some unique policy compliance risks. These risks arise because: · End users’ interactions with agents are freeform and unpredictable. · Agents often engage
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Hi again! Here is the second part of our visit to the magical world of contexts. Yesterday we brushed on a few simple uses for them, now let's dive into a slightly more sensitive subject. Once the agent is hosted and public, you may want to block access
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