This document provides technical information about Microsoft® Office Communicator Automation API. It is intended for application developers who are interested in extending or customizing the Office Communicator 2007 client.

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Legal Information (Office Communicator Automation API)

Lists copyright, trademark, and other legal matters.

About Office Communicator Automation API

Describes a set of COM interfaces, objects, events, enumerated types, and other related programming entities. It enables programmatic manipulation of a Communicator instance from a third-party application, as well as extending and customizing user experiences with Communicator.

Using Office Communicator Automation API

Identifies the essential steps to using the API to write, build, and deploy Communicator applications.

Office Communicator Automation API Reference

Describes COM-based programming entities using the API in detail. The COM-based Office Communicator Automation API supports Automation and can be called from applications that are written in the Microsoft Visual Basic® development system, C/C++, C#, VBScript, and many other scripting languages.