What are good references for .Net development with Office Communications Server?

Question

Is is possible to intergrate VOIP capabilities, particularly phone dialing, with Office Communications Server 2007 and .Net? If so, are there any good references for this? I would be especially interested if this could be hosted within an ASP.Net or Silverlight application.

Answer 1

The Thirsty Developer did a podcast recently on a Vista Gadget hooked into MOC recently. IIRC, they used either Silverlight or a WPF XBAP to host the Gadget.

The project is open sourced on Codeplex, and MS also released some presence controls for WPF that went with it.

Edit: There seem to be diffent APIs depending on where you want to hook into (do you want to use the client Communicator, or integrate direct to your app, etc.). Here's a couple of pointers to the resources I know about:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/jcalev/archive/2007/08/21/an-overview-of-the-apis-in-office-communications-server-2007.aspx
• Download Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API SDK, and docs online
• Unified Communications Client API
• Office Communicator SDK