lync extension development

Question

Could anyone please send me some urls or code samples for develop extension for lync 2010.

I mean development some tools which can integrated into lync 2010 as extension. add a menu or button to lync 2010, when click the menu or button, the customerized tool will popup.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

You've got 4 options:

1 - Add a custom menu item to either the main Lync window or a conversation window.

2 - Create a Conversation Window Extension to host your custom functionality. This is a Silverlight or HTML application that can be hosted inside a conversation window. Note, this can only be applied to a conversation window, and not to the main Lync window.

3 - Create a Silverlight or WPF application that contains your custom functionality, and then automate Lync from that application

4 - Probably a bit extreme depending on what you're trying to achieve, but you could run Lync in UI suppression mode, and then create your custom functionality in an application that also uses Lync for communication related tasks - but in this case, you'll have to provide all the communication UI (e.g. conversation windows) yourself.

The Lync SDK can be downloaded here - This contains sample code and walkthroughs, and should be enough to get you started.

Answer 2

You can find a solution at

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/29576efc-0d12-4ad8-8ace-6a9a63275a57

Using this package, you can add custom tab functionality to lync 2010 client.