Hi!
Iīm starting in the adventure of Windows development with C++ and the .NET framework, I originally started programming many years ago with Delphi (5) but since I got to the web business, I never came back (I work with Flash Platform, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and SQL currently). Now I just downloaded a copy of the Visual Studio 2005 (Express). What I want to do is develop a MSN Messenger plug-in that interfaces with my site server-system (built in PHP4 and MySQL for db), I had so many great ideas on what I could do with it that I even bought a book on C++ and started sutdying it, but before I dive into MSN plug-in development, I would like to be sure of the following:
- Is it better to interface directly with the MSN COM API or Plus! really does make life easier? Is there any drawback on using it (other from having it installed);
- Is the Plus! API justa wrapper around the default MSN API?
- As I come from ActionScript, the .NET managed languages are easier for me but I sincerelly donīt like VB... Is there a implementation of the Plus! API for C#?
- I want my plug-in to communicate to my PHP app on the server.. what techinique would be the best to use - (HTTP VARS, XML/SOAP) Iīm not that good on Windows client/sever programming.
Thatīs it for now!
Thanks in advance,
Marcelo Serpa.
