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Integrating and Extending Office Communicator

PR13. Integrating and Extending Office Communicator. David Ollason Principal Lead Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Agenda. Introduction Availability and supported technologies Feature Overview The Client Platform Integrating Office Communicator capabilities into your apps

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Integrating and Extending Office Communicator

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  1. PR13 Integrating and Extending Office Communicator David Ollason Principal Lead Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Availability and supported technologies • Feature Overview • The Client Platform • Integrating Office Communicator capabilities into your apps • Making conversations contextual • Extending Office Communicator • The OC 14 Managed API • Summary

  3. UC 14 Metro ProgramAn opportunity for early adopters • Your Commitment: • Must have NDA • Must have project scoped/planned • Your Benefits: • Early access to UC 14 products and SDKs • Technical briefings • Training • Support • Getting Nominated: • Talk to your Microsoft representative • Don’t know who to ask? Email metroreq@microsoft.com

  4. IntroductionSupported Technologies • Visual Studio 2010 • Silverlight 4.0 • .Net 3.5+ • IE 7.0 and 8.0

  5. IntroductionFeature overview During Conversation Before Conversation After Conversation OR…build fully custom UI against the OC 14 Managed API

  6. Integrating OC capabilities into your appDrag and drop Silverlight and WPF controls • Before the conversation starts… • Find People People Search, Expert Search • BrowsePeople Contact List, Custom List • View People Presence, Photo • Check Details Hover Card, Contact Card. • Starting conversations… • Click to Call, IM, Video and Collaborate • Default look and feel of OC 2010

  7. Silverlight Controls demo David Ollason Lead Program Manager Office Communicator – Platform

  8. Integrating OC capabilities in your appDocking OC’s Conversation Window in rich Apps • Integrate the conversation window itself… • Dock inside your Winforms or WPF app • Border is removed for a more integrated feel • Size the window to appropriately fit your app • Receive events and undock on resize • Conversation activity causes app to flash in sys tray when minimized

  9. Conversation Window Docking in a WPF Application demo David Ollason Lead Program Manager Office Communicator – Platform

  10. Making conversations contextualContext from Outlook today Receiver Sample Fill Sender • Do this, and more, from YourApp…

  11. Making conversations contextualPassing a simple link • A URL is programmatically passed with the application invite to the receiver • Subject of conversation can be set • Link appears in the conversation history and receiver is invited to click “at own risk” • No code is registered on receiver side

  12. Contextual Conversations demo David Ollason Lead Program Manager Office Communicator – Platform

  13. Making conversations contextualPassing richer data – Sender-side • Sender-side programmatically sets: • AppName – an identifier that the receiver uses to recognize the sender application. • Program Launch link in addition to a simple URL. Sender enables receiver to click-to-launch a program locally. • Include AppData in application invite. Constrained only by channel bandwidth • Potentially instruct receiver to automatically open Conversation Window Extension

  14. Making conversations contextualPassing richer data – Receiver-side • Receiver-side registers a package that: • Matches AppName and establishes trust with incoming invite • Can set contextual text in the invite popup. • Inserts launch link / URL into conversation history (no user warning necessary). • Receives and processes AppData • Can use Managed API to invoke Conversation Window Extension • Can use API to dock conversation in WPF app

  15. Office Communicator extensibilityMenu extension points within OC Shell execute My Application and pass Contact SIP URI(s)

  16. Office Communicator extensibilityThe Conversation Window extension – features • A window attached to the right of the conversation window. • Peer-to-peer communication (no server-side BoT is required). • Hosts Silverlight natively, or a browser. • Native Silverlight app has OC 14 Managed API access to the current conversation

  17. Office Communicator extensibilityThe Conversation Window extension – invocation • Can be invoked in several ways • Either user, independently, can invoke an app to run in the CWE from menu. • Menu contains apps registered for use in CWE. • Sender’s invite can cause CWE to run automatically on Receiver’s side.

  18. Conversation Window Extension demo David Ollason Lead Program Manager Office Communicator – Platform

  19. The OC 14 Managed APIAPI access to UC capabilities • Fully Managed API adopting standard .Net design patterns. • Bridge provides API access from Silverlight • Requires Office Communicator and leverages the same endpoint • Encompasses the functionality of both IMessenger and UCCA • Underpins the Controls, Contextual Conversations and Extensibility platform

  20. The OC 14 Managed APIPublic interfaces UCUserOptions UC UIAutomation UCContacts/Groups Launch OC UI / Start IM / Start File Transfer / Start App-sharing / join conference Contact Management / Groups / DG / Search / Presence / location Publishing Self-Presence / User Options / Delegates SignIn / ClientConfig / Factory Methods for Interfaces UCConversation UCUtilities UCConference IM / Audio / Video / Conferencing Call History / Missed Calls / Email / Tuning Wizard Schedule Conf/CAA Public interfaces

  21. The OC 14 Managed APIKey scenarios • Build conversation-aware applications to run in the Conversation Window Extension • Set context and build apps to receive and process context • Build custom presentation UI and launch OC conversations • Not for custom invites or conversation window while OC is visible, but… • Fully suppress OC’s UI and build entirely custom UI against the API.

  22. The OC 14 Managed APIKey scenarios Write conversation-aware apps in the CWE Suppress OC UI and build custom standalone experiences UIAutomation.StartConversation( UiaConversationModes.InstantMessaging                 , myParticipantList                 , myContextTypes                 , myContextObjects); Your Silverlight application can run here and have API access to the conversation Use the API to launch OC from custom UI

  23. In Summary • Join Metro metroreq@microsoft.com • Integrate Office-grade OC experiences into your applications • Contextualize the invites sent from your applications • Customize the OC experience during the conversation • Build custom experiences against the OC 14 Managed API.

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