The topics in this section guide you through the tasks that prepare you to add Microsoft Lync 2010 API features to your application as well as taking you through the asynchronous programming pattern you will use to build Lync 2010 API features into your application.

Many of the Lync 2010 API classes expose collections of properties whose individual members are object types. The last topic in this section describes these property collections in more detail and gives you an example of reading and changing the values of properties in the collection.