This is not a full Skype client embedded (it demonstrates just a number of get/set properties and events), but it can be a good demonstration of the Skype Desktop API combined into an Outlook add-in. The main purpose of this article is to embed Skype functionality directly in Outlook. There may be such add-ins on market (and for Skype there are for sure), but without source code. I would like to set a task as completed or assign a task directly from the email received from JIRA. But the clipboard and Alt-Tab remain the main staples of day-to-day working. I know, I know, everything is in the cloud as everyone tries to sell this to us every day. We're all working with a variety of tools every day we communicate using a number of instant messaging applications (Skype and Yahoo! for me) we deal with many emails per day using our favorite clients (mine being Outlook), and we're dealing with other tons of data for doing tracking activities, searching, and so on.īut despite this overwhelmingly increasing data, there is little interoperability between all of these programs. I will try to post upper "Edit n" sections as soon as I'm learning new developments on Skype API status updates. This is, in their words, for "continue improving user experience", which is just another name for corporate BS talk. IMHO, this is a *very* bad decision, since now there is no way to communicate with Skype other than initiate some calls. More details here.Įdit: Skype/MS removed Desktop API, and replaced it (yeah, right) with Skype URIs. So, "until we determine alternative options or retire the current solution" (quote: Noah Edelstein).
Edit 3: Sadly, chat is still going away: Skype tweaks Desktop API plans: Chat still going away, call recording and device compatibility to stay for now.Įdit 2: It seems (finally !) that removing Desktop API without giving an alternative was not a good idea, so - at least temporarily - MS/Skype backpedals from this.
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