How do you create a Yahoo chat client?

Sean McHugh

I finally got my own chat application working across the internet. Which means I configured my router to allow port forwarding, opened the right ports on windows firewall, installed and configured IIS7, bought a domain so the IP address on my computer can be resolved and I can run a server program that connects people, and setup a program that updates DNS when my IP addres changes. I feel like I have a good knoweldge base and I would like to take it to the next level by tapping into Yahoo Messenger. I don't really know where to start and any advice would be very much appreciated.

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Roei Bar17y ago
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well my friend Yahoo is written in C++ for multi OS support, for that reason there is no Yahoo client in C#, there is currently a nice Alpha of Java Based API for YIM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jymsg9/files/jymsg9/v0.64%2C%20Alpha%20release/

you can have a look and try to extract the data to C#

another thing is The IM wrapper (http://www.imwrapper.com/) service which lets you get the status of a Yahoo IM user.

C# code to utilize that service is available here - http://www.akxl.net/labs/articles/asp.net-c-sharp-instant-messenger-status-determination/

good luck
Roei Bar17y ago
if you want some help with breaking apart the Java code into C#, let me know
i have been working for a while with both ;-)

good luck
Sean McHugh17y ago
That's a pretty good start! I downloaded the .zip and am looking at the code now. Thanks for your help.