Integrating Instant Messaging into an ASP.NET application

Question

I was thinking about integrating some instant messaging function into an existing ASP.NET web application, e.g:

• the web application can display the online-status of users (are they currently logged in with their IM client)
• users can send messages from the web application to the IM client of other users
• users can initiate a IM chat from the web application (without having to know the other user's IM identification beforehand)

Does anyone know about some existing libraries, sample applications or other resources that might help implementing such a feature?

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge.

Answer 1

You might want to look at the .net implementation of jabber:

http://code.google.com/p/jabber-net/

Answer 2

There's a list on the ASP.net site.

http://www.asp.net/Community/Control-gallery/browse.aspx?category=54