Hi Guys,
I am going ahead with creating an application that is going to feature
all the components that you see in MSN Messenger.
i.e.
- IM/Presence
- Application Sharing
- Audio
- Video
I want someone to tell me, how much of an intrinsic support is there in C#
to allow me to develop
all this.
The reason/s i wanna go for C# are obvious.
But since most of the above features have C API's to work with them, e.g,
capturing video from
a webcam, getting data from sound card, Windows hooks for application
sharing and that almost all the
well known compression algo's are built in C [zlib etc], the problems i feel
that I am going to face
if i go ahead with C# are going to be numerous.
I really have to take a call on what shoud i go with.
Yes, this application has only to be deployed in Windows plaforms.
Any one feel otherwise.
--
Regards
Umesh Balani 1 1276
Well, I can only throw you a little bit, but here goes...
"Umesh Balani" <de*************@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:uC**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... Hi Guys,
I am going ahead with creating an application that is going to feature all the components that you see in MSN Messenger. i.e. - IM/Presence - Application Sharing - Audio - Video
I want someone to tell me, how much of an intrinsic support is there in C# to allow me to develop all this.
The reason/s i wanna go for C# are obvious.
But since most of the above features have C API's to work with them, e.g, capturing video from a webcam, getting data from sound card, Windows hooks for application sharing and that almost all the well known compression algo's are built in C [zlib etc], the problems i
feel that I am going to face if i go ahead with C# are going to be numerous.
Capturing video from a webcam:
WIA is available as a COM scripting object[1]
Compression algos:
SharpZipLib[2] has a number of decent compressions(zip, bzip, maybe others0
I can't recall)
Getting data from the sound card:
Managed DirectX(Directsound specifically) may provide what you need...but I
don't know for sure, you'll have to research that.
The windows hooks I don't know about, you may have to write those in as
managed C++ components(remember, you can write the bulk of your app in C#
and write only waht needs to be native in Managed C++) but it may be
possible to PInvoke and work with them via interop.
1. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/wi...tingdotnet.asp
2. http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSourc...b/Default.aspx
I really have to take a call on what shoud i go with. Yes, this application has only to be deployed in Windows plaforms.
Any one feel otherwise.
-- Regards Umesh Balani
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