PLEASE HELP: Programming Messenger -- possible?

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Duncan A. McRae

Docs are nearly impossible to find out there, and whatever looks
promising (a link to MSDN, for example) almost always returns a 404.
Is Microsoft actively discouraging my playing around? Are there
resources available to help me program/automate with Messenger, or
should I just throw it away and use AOL/Yahoo's offerrings?

I'm attempting to build add-ins for Excel so that I can communicate
with someone without constantly leaving the work we're doing. I
cannot count on NetMeeting being available.

I can pull up my contacts, I can log MSN (root object) events and I
can open a conversation window, but I can't interact with the window
very much to send/receive text. I'd like to eliminate the
conversation window entirely, but failing that polling it for text and
using SendKeys to send text would be acceptable.

Thanks all;
Duncan
 
Greetings Duncan,

There is some MSDN documentation, but it is remarkably confusing and won't work with MSN
Messenger (just Windows Messenger).

Instead, you might see this forum on MSNFanatic, where you should be able to get some samples
of some actual code:
http://www.msnfanatic.com/forums/index.php?showforum=57
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
 
Thank you Jonathan. I've been to that site, but perhaps not that
forum. I'll check it out.

Thanks again;
Duncan
 
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