Comments on: Windows Live Messenger add-ins feature

By: Dex Luther

Dex Luther — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:52:28 +0000

The WLM community is abuzz, but I don’t see what the hype is about. This adds/will add nothing that hasn’t been available for years now VIA MSN plus.

From the few add-ins I’ve been able to find and try out, I haven’t seen a single one that adds functionality that wasn’t already available with MSN Plus. On top of that the functionality added through MSN plus is a lot more seamless than those added through these add-ins.

By: james dolan

james dolan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:21:41 +0000

are they any downloadable addins available to download. if so can you tell me and everyone were? cheeres.

jamesrdolan_1992@hotmail.co.uk

By: All about Windows Live Messenger add-ins » Fanatic Live

All about Windows Live Messenger add-ins » Fanatic Live — Sat, 13 May 2006 01:49:22 +0000

[...] My last post didn’t really address how to use add-ins or how they work, but I did respond with a comment on what I did know. As luck would have it, Katie’s post “All About Messenger Add-ins…” explains things quite well, it is confirmed that MessengerClient.dll is a .NET assembly, so it looks like we’re bound to VB.NET and C#, at least for now. I’ve read a few discussions on people interested in creating an add-in which acts as a proxy to allow languages like VB6 to interact, interesting to see how that goes. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:39:51 +0000

It seems this API is .NET based and as such you can probably only use it within .NET environment languages. VB.NET works, but not VB6. The API itself is entirely new and has been developed for the sole purpose of add-ins, it does look very limited but I don't want to speak too soon if the SDK is yet to be released. It is in the file MessengerClient.dll, which has no traditional type library (which is why it can't be referenced in VB6), I'm not sure how .NET works in this context so I can't comment further. There's a good topic at the mess forums about it and a good sample here.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:04:09 +0000

So this means you can program for Windows Live Messenger 8.0 with Visual Basic? Is it limited just like the MSN Messenger 5.0 till version 7.5 API? And does it already work on the beta?

Personally i dont like downloading beta versions so dont know it myself, a ansewer will be appriciated.