Hi folks,
While freezing in NZ (this week) I came across this this great MSDN article discussing
some of the lower level implementation details around .NET 3.5 Framework.
The part that interests me is the Presence information (right at the end of the article)
where once a connection is setup, you can get presence information about the other
party – right from the .NET 3.5 framework.
If you’ve ever had to try and develop for that other ways i.e. by talking straight
to communicator, or messenger or… etc.
You’ll realise that they each have a slightly different API set, (some accept SIP,
some don’t, some require it, some don’t…) and it’s opening up trouble – cause on
the target deployment machine…can you imagine the production guys when you say “hang
on, I’ve just got to go and download Messenger (from Live)….”
Anyway – here’s the article.
Enjoy – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163356.aspx