The latest post at the Windows Live Messenger Space reports on the Windows Live Messenger add-ins feature:
As of this week, the Messenger Add-ins feature is officially available to developers only. The option to enable add-ins in the Options dialog is disabled but there is a registry key which allows developers to use their skills and build wonderful add-ins. Ken Levy has all the details on his blog and Katie, the add-in dev, has samples and docs on her blog.
Katie Blanch’s blog at MSDN is new and looks very promising, her first post describes her background at Microsoft how she came to be a developer for the new add-ins feature:
The feature I worked on with Messenger that I’m most excited about is ‘Add-ins’, and that’s what this blog is mainly going to be about. I’m hoping to post sample code, get feedback about the API and what we should concentrate on next, and hear about any issues or painpoints you have creating add-ins.
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.
Read Katie’s full post for lots more information and how they work.
I will be needing to get my A into G and post some new content here, I can’t even remember the last time I posted an original article. There isn’t even anything here on the Activity API, so much for a developer’s site huh?
Is there some more detailed documents for the Assembly MessengerClient??