MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger and the mysterious Add-in capability
Sometimes, I get really confused. It's not always my fault.
So, we made a strategic, key decision to split Windows Messenger from MSN
Messenger so that Messenger would be forked to two key audiences: the former to
corporate customers, the latter for mass market messenging (nice unintentional
egregious alliteration). [I am working from home today with a nasty cold, so
this could all be my illness talking here].
There used to be an API in Windows Messenger to let you create Add-ins for
the client. The most famous is the Messenger Plus! add-in by Patchou (https://www.msgplus.net/). It works in MSN 6
and Windows Messenger 5. But, that is the baffling part: how does an add-in work
in Messenger 5 when the APIs were deprecated...or were they? The whole thing has
me wondering.
Without the Add-in capability, I am stuck with just some custom branding
options- very boring. And, I cannot find any add-in API for MSN's client. IM
clients are strange, when you're a stranger, when there's no well-written SDK.
Which brings me to my...
Rock
Thought for the day:
I have now finished the
book about Jim Morrison
It was better than I expected in some ways, disappointing in others. The
writer included too much profanity of his own. To me, this is always a sign
of literary desperation. I did three graduate degree programs, so I just
value the work of a well-researched word more than the shortcut of
obscenity for the most part. Quotations from Jim contained ample color
anyway.
Jim was a complex person- an artistic genius who tortured everyone near him.
I collected his books of poetry when I was in college because I thought his work
was better than the celebrated beat poets. He was overlooked only because of his
connection to rock. Read an American Night. Brilliant.
I am on to a new book: Wizard:
The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc Siefer.
I cannot think of an easy, yet insightful rock connection right now
other than radio, but my passion for electronics equals that for rock and roll.
You can all thank Telsa for your ability to work at a computer today.
Rock on.
Comments
- Anonymous
September 20, 2004
Ari Bixhorn demonstrated this utility he had developed back at a VSLive! in Orlando. The supplied MessengerAPI dll makes it pretty easy to build your own utility, but I don't think you'd truly call it an add-in.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=19de7837-fce8-4fc1-8e1b-3b7232966420 - Anonymous
September 21, 2004
What are your three graduate degrees? - Anonymous
September 22, 2004
The installer for Messenger Plus also loads a ton of spyware. The features available in Messenger Plus do not outweigh the horrible misconduct of the installer, so do yourself a favor and skip it. - Anonymous
September 29, 2004
Todd: The installer for Messenger Plus EXPLICITLY ASKS YOU whether you want to install ADWARE or not. If you think the features available in Messenger Plus do not outweigh the sponsor program, just choose "NO" in the installer and you will get a clean, completely free Messenger Plus!. Do yourself a favor and inform yourself before bashing others' work just like that: they have to make a living, and you should be thankful that they give you something for free and don't force you to install any adware/spyware. :)
Check the following links please:
http://www.msgplus.net/help_faq.php?expand=2#install
http://msgplus.mybboard.com/showthread.php?tid=21598 - Anonymous
June 09, 2009
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