Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Unified Communications (UC) integrates real-time communications (telephony, video conferencing, speech recognition) with non real-time communication (voicemail, e-mail, fax) to unify users across multiple devices and media types. This book offers practical development advice based on the authors’ experiences developing solutions on the UC platform. You’ll discover how to solve problems and get answers to common questions that you may encounter while developing solutions with the UC APIs.

• Begins with an overview of Unified Communications (UC) development
• Covers areas of custom development with Microsoft UC APIs and describes in detail their various functions
• Goes beyond simple samples to teach you how to build real software solutions on the UC platform
• Demonstrates how to add context to, build kiosk solutions, integrate Communicator functionality into an application, debug UCMA applications, and more

This book shows you how to integrate communications functionality into your applications and so much more.