Instant Messaging Tools

Wow, I seriously underestimated the number of instant messaging applications out there. I've been using MSN Messenger for a long time (hasn't everyone?) and now I work on Windows Std Server 2003 I can't - the two are incompatible, as is iTunes/WS2k3. So, I went looking for a replacement which might run on WinSrv2k3, and a quick google of "instant messenger comparison" brought me to this neat link:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_clients

Having said that, of course, there are plenty of tools, APIs etc out there to let you build your own instant messaging application - including an MSN Messenger app!...

Code and API's for developing with Microsoft's MSN Messenger service, found via:http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB299GB309&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=c%23+msn ...

• http://forum.mess.be/index.php?showtopic=36
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Connect_To_MSN_Messenger.aspx
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/MsnMessengerLogListener.aspx
• http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/index.php - Out of date now
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms630960.aspx
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/connectingtomsn.aspx

A number of these utilise the DotMSN API:

• http://www.xihsolutions.net/dotmsn/ - An actual MSN Messenger API wrapped up for C# specifically

Also, dubiously, there is this, which I am just not sure about yet, perhaps it's a goldmine, perhaps a landmine: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-hack-msn-web-cam/