Hi, I'm basically looking for an Auto Responder that sends automated messages when I am set to ONLINE (this is because i am totally against the idea of setting your status to Away, Busy, and other statuses, therefore I only use Online and Offline). Now I found two GREAT things, but unfortunately I forgot programming stuff and I have absolutely no idea how to compile these codes and stuff. Does anyone know a good Auto Responder that satisfies my needs? Or, can anyone help me edit one of these two add-ins??

Thank you

and by the way, here are the two things I found:

http://nayyeri.net/archive/2006/10/16/auto-respon...ive-messenger.aspx
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=213

Ok you know what, now I have a different problem, I got one of the Add-ins enabled in Windows Live Messenger, problem is it's not sending automated messages like it's supposed to, here is the code:

code:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Messenger;

namespace AutoResponder
{
    public class AutoResponder : IMessengerAddIn
    {
        #region Private members
        MessengerClient client;
        Dictionary<String, DateTime> history;
        #endregion

        #region IMessengerAddIn Members

        public void Initialize(MessengerClient messenger)
        {
            this.client = messenger;

            this.history = new Dictionary<String, DateTime>();

            this.client.AddInProperties.FriendlyName =
                "Auto-Responder";
            this.client.AddInProperties.Creator =
                "Keyvan Nayyeri";
            this.client.AddInProperties.Description =
                "Sends auto-respond texts to senders based on user status";
            this.client.AddInProperties.Url =
                new Uri("http://nayyeri.net");

            this.client.IncomingTextMessage +=
                new EventHandler<IncomingTextMessageEventArgs>
                (client_IncomingTextMessage);
        }

        #endregion

        #region Private methods

        void client_IncomingTextMessage(object sender, IncomingTextMessageEventArgs e)
        {
            if (ShouldSend(e.UserFrom.UniqueId))
            {
                String outgoingText = String.Empty;
                switch (this.client.LocalUser.Status)
                {
                    case UserStatus.Away:
                        outgoingText +=
                            "I'm currently away from my computer and will respond to you later ";
                        break;
                    case UserStatus.BeRightBack:
                        outgoingText +=
                            "I'll be back very soon.  Leave your messages here and I'll answer you when I get back to my computer ";
                        break;
                    case UserStatus.Busy:
                        outgoingText +=
                            "I'm currently busy or am viewing something in Full Screen mode.  I'll respond to you when I get back to my computer ";
                        break;
                    case UserStatus.OnThePhone:
                        outgoingText +=
                            "I'm on the phone and will respond to you very soon ";
                        break;
                    case UserStatus.OutToLunch:
                        outgoingText +=
                            "I'm out to lunch.  I'll repond to you after that ";
                        break;
                }

                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(outgoingText))
                {

                    outgoingText = String.Format("Dear {0}, "
                        + outgoingText, e.UserFrom.FriendlyName);

                    if (this.history.ContainsKey(e.UserFrom.UniqueId))
                        this.history[e.UserFrom.UniqueId] = DateTime.Now;
                    else
                        this.history.Add(e.UserFrom.UniqueId, DateTime.Now);

                    this.client.SendTextMessage(outgoingText, e.UserFrom);
                }
            }
        }

        private bool ShouldSend(String UserID)
        {
            if (this.history.ContainsKey(UserID))
                if (DateTime.Now.Subtract(new TimeSpan(0, 5, 0))
                    < this.history[UserID])
                    return false;

            return true;
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

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you might want to fix your links in the first post, so that people can view them

oh, didn't notice that, fixed now, thank you for the notice.

so, any ideas on why this won't work?

alright now i got yet a NEW problem. the addin works I KNOW that now, but the problem now is that this addin only works for certain accounts. I have about 6 messenger accounts (and I have my reasons) and I tried this addin on all of them, it works for 4 of the accounts, but the other two doesn't send the auto response. what could these two accounts be doing to prevent the addin from functioning?