DotMSN 2.0 Released

DotMSN - .NET Messenger library - Home

"DotMSN is an open-source stand-alone class library to provide connectivity with the MSN Messenger service. The library is built in C# and can therefore be used by all languages the .NET environment supports. Because of a clean natural Object-Oriented approach the library is easy to use and implement. DotMSN is designed to be a flexible, robust and lightweight enhancement to any application. Applications of DotMSN vary from creating messaging robots to creating custom clients. If your application needs to communicate through the messenger service, DotMSN is your tool.

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DotMSN is a stand-alone library. This means there is no interaction with the official MSN Messenger client and therefore it does not need to be installed when using DotMSN. Multiple instances of DotMSN can be executed on the same machine, or even in the same process. Thus making it easy to deploy applications on a single server. "

Download
"Here you can download DotMSN. There are two packages available to download DotMSN. Either as a full-packed download with the compiled dll (signed and unsigned), vs.net xml documentation files, API documentation, example client and full source code. The second package contains only the latest dll and it's corresponding vs.net xml documentation file for intellisense. ..."

The VERY cool dotMSN library has rev'ed to 2.0. If you are doing any MSN IM related work you owe it to yourself to check this out...

I really like how its NOT coupled to the MSN IM client. Makes it a much easier case for using on a server (how many Server Admins do you know who would let you install MSN IM on "their" servers without a battle? Yeah, I don't know any either...).

I'm going to have to look at updating my MSN IM VS Add-in to use this instead of the MSN IM COM interface...

(Via James Simmonds' Blog - dotMSN - version 2.0 released)