Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Chapter 4. Embedding Contextual Collaboration

This chapter will help you to:

• Implement the end-to-end contextual collaboration scenario by building a sample application that:

  • Displays an application-specific contact list with presence.

  • Starts application-specific conversations.

  • Accepts application-specific conversations in your application.

Introduction to Contextual Collaboration

In Chapter 2, we discussed the scenarios that the Microsoft Office Communicator Automation application programming interface (API) enables, including the following:

• Embedding presence with application-specific contact lists. Using the API to build contact lists specific to your application and showing Office Communicator presence for those contacts.

• Enhancing communications ...