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Skype Journal Guide : Learning Skype’s Plug-In Architecture
April 17, 2005 10:20 PM | Stuart Henshall

Skype Journal presents this guide to help developers learn Skype's Plug-in Architecture. cover art for Skype Journal guide to Skype's Plug-In Architecture(Download it.) This guide steps you through the concepts. Your DIY project: build your own Skype answering machine. Along the way, you'll:

  • Build tomorow's communications platform
  • Customize & personalize Skype
  • Create powerful applications
  • Understand and work with the Skype API

Thanks. This book is our first community project to help develop and support the Skype developer community. It brought together a great group of Skype developers and users committed to creating new communications solutions. Many are active in the Skype Forums.

A special thanks to the Skype team for making this book available from the Skype developers' web site.

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Is this available as straight HTML anywhere?

Posted by: Boris Mann at April 18, 2005 07:20 PM

Boris, Currently itt is not available as html although we are looking at developing and moving it to a wiki.
Cheers
Stuart

Posted by: Stuart Henshall at April 19, 2005 04:19 PM

Bill and Stuart,

It seems to me that the Skype API is only supported on Windows based computer. Is that right?

I'm not sure that this point is highlighted.

Cheers,
Steve

Posted by: Steve at April 22, 2005 10:01 AM

Thanks, Steve. That's an important point. The API should be available on other platforms soon, but we don't know if that means in a week or a few months. Soon vs. Soooooooon.

UPDATE: It's available now for Linux.
http://www.skype.com/community/devzone/SkypeAPIforLinux.html

Posted by: Phil Wolff at April 22, 2005 12:29 PM

Hello Bill,

I am developing a distant learning business around VoIP. As I do not have a technology background, your Skype API guide is of great help to me.

Thanks a lot!

Posted by: Victor Croes at May 10, 2005 05:37 AM

Q: Is there a good reliable answering machine for Skype, I used one a couple of months ago and it trashed the Skype programme, on Skype boot up it caused a critical error even a complete re-install would not correct this problem, I had to install a backup to get Skype working again.
Why hasn't Skype got a built in answering machine anyway, it must be a simple task for the Skype team.
Skype for me is one of the best programmes to come out for a good while, keep the good work up.

Regards

Dave Mason

Posted by: Dave Mason at May 28, 2005 01:47 AM

Dave,
Skype does now offer a built in voice mail / messaging feature for $15 euros per year or free with a SkypeIn account. Check out the accounts page. As an alternate check out www.pamela-systems.com, their answermachine is developing into a serious product with features that are different to what skype provides.

Posted by: Stuart Henshall at May 28, 2005 10:12 AM

1. I want to create a speed-dial more than two digits by myself. I can find the account through the speed-dial in my application. But i don't know if a speed-dial has existed in the Skype. Is there a message to get the account of a Speed-dial in the API?

2. May i use the API to add some contacts in my own application?

3. My i use the API to login automatically?

Posted by: hufman at June 5, 2005 07:15 PM

j'ai telecharge skype video mais a vrais dire je ne sais pas encore l'utiliser,et les explications sont en anglais or je suis francophone

Posted by: Mamadou TRAORE at August 19, 2005 05:34 AM

It seems to have a problem with the C# source: there are only C++ files inside the zip file !!!

Posted by: Elektordi at August 24, 2005 02:14 PM

The C# samples are actually C++
Any chance of proper C# code ?

Posted by: David Snipp at August 25, 2005 01:37 AM

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