Instant Messaging Software Development Kit - Summary

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Summary

Instant Messaging Software Development Kit by Interactive Networks

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Easily set up an Instant Messaging Server and connect your applications to it. Instant Messaging Software Development will allow you to integrate Instant Messaging features into any windows application (user-to-user or application-to-application) including VOIP and Video Chat in a matter of minutes as well as communicate with the main public IM Networks: MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ & Jabber (Google Talk) Messenger users. Instant Messaging Software Development Kit (IM SDK) includes an IM Server and an Administration Console to manage your private IM Network. Compatible with Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and all .NET Framework versions, i.e. Visual Studio .NET ( C#, VB.NET) and Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.

Overview

The Instant Messaging Software Development Kit (IM SDK) includes an IM Server Software and an Administration Console to manage your private IM Network. It includes samples with full source code, tutorial lessons and a full Reference Guide to quickly learn the SDK API. You can start a Voice or Video chat session with any public users from: MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ & Jabber (Google Talk). Voice and Video Chat will work behind most firewalls or NATS. You can manage the bandwidth usage and personalize the quality of your Voice and Video Chat sessions.

IM SDK Main Features:

Integration of Instant Messaging features into any application

Communication between your application and any AOL, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber (Google Talk) Messenger users

Using the Instant Messaging Infrastructure for application to application communication

Integration of Voice and Video Chat features into any application

Using the SDK, developers can create in hours what would normally take weeks or months without it.

Who is it for?

Windows Developers using:

Visual Basic 6

Visual Basic .NET

Visual C#.NET

Other COM enabled programming languages

Other .NET Languages

The IM SDK includes:

IM SDK .NET dll and runtimes

6 Sample applications with full source code

11 Tutorial lessons with sample code to quickly learn the SDK API

Full SDK API Reference Guide

IM Server software (during the free trial you can download the IM Server or we can host it for you in our data center)

IM Network Administration Console to manage your private IM network

IM SDK Editions:

Light Edition: This edition is aimed at developers looking to add basic Instant Messaging features into any application in order to connect to a private IM network, either for user-to-user or application-to-application communication. At the Client side enables text Instant Messaging with supporting offline messages, contact list management with group support, presence and typing notification, file and data transfer, and user profile directory search. Through an Administration Console you can access the IM Server, create, modify & disable users, manage chatting groups and each user features, add contacts to all users contact list, perform usage statistics, and more. The Data Transfer feature establishes a fast data interchange channel enabling you to add powerful collaboration tools, develop intelligent application-to-application communication or real-time user/application interaction such as bots.

Light Plus Edition: In addition to the features included in the Light Edition, this edition includes one to one Voice and Video Chat for private contacts. These features incorporate the latest Video and Voice over IP (VOIP) using the streaming technology. Voice and Video Chat will work behind most firewalls or NATS. You can manage the bandwidth usage and personalize the quality of your Voice and Video Chat sessions.

Premium Edition: In addition to the features included in the Light Edition, this edition includes interoperability with the public IM Networks. The SDK directly connects to the public IM Servers: MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ & Jabber (Google Talk) enabling instant messages exchange, add any public contacts to your contact list and send files feature. In this edition, the IM server can also be integrated with your existing Active Directory, NT Domain or any custom user directory to authenticate users with their existing account information.

Premium Plus Edition: In addition to the features included in the Premium Edition, this edition includes one to one Voice and Video Chat for private and public IM Network contacts.

What's New in IM SDK 5.0.2?

Most important libraries of the IM SDK are now developed using .Net Framework, this means you will have a better performance in your applications and less memory consumption. Also you can develop asp.net applications much easier.

IM SDK .Net assemblies reside in the Global Assembly Cache

Interoperability with public networks improved, better performance

Support of double byte messages, allowing you to have IM conversations in any language

Custom Status message in your user profile and in your IM Contacts

Multi person chat feature in plus editions, now you can have video and audio chat conversations with several persons

Compatibility with the new IM Server Administration Console, you can set public networks policies and allow or forbid contacts

New event to handle logs from IM SDK gives you more information to trace your application when is needed

Send and receive SMS to/from any mobile device

Several bug fixes

What's New in IM SDK build 93?

Bug fixes on public network contact and group management

Bug fixes on Jabber network features

Easily set up an Instant Messaging Server and connect your applications to it.

Pricing: Instant Messaging Software Development Kit - IM SDK 5.0 1 Light Edition License (Unlimited developers, Unlimited users), Instant Messaging Software Development Kit - IM SDK 5.0 1 Light Plus Edition License (Unlimited developers, Unlimited users), Instant Messaging Software Development Kit - IM SDK 5.0 1 Premium Edition License (Unlimited developers, 500 users), Instant Messaging Software Development Kit - IM SDK 5.0 1 Premium Plus Edition License (Unlimited developers, 500 users)

Evals & Downloads: Read the Instant Messaging Software Development Kit 5 Help File, Download the Instant Messaging SDK Hosted evaluation on to your computer - Requires online registration - Expires after 30 days, Download the Instant Messaging SDK Server 5.0 evaluation on to your computer - Expires after 30 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET Class, DLL

Built Using: ActiveX Framework

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Internet Information Server 6.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 1.0

Product Class: Business Components

Keywords: im sdk messenger vb messenger c# voip sdk video chat sdk instant message messages

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Part numbers: PC-517459-267201 517459-267201 PC-517459-267203 517459-267203 PC-517459-267205 517459-267205 PC-517459-267207 517459-267207