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Windows Live Messenger Plug-in Development Bible

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An article explaining several Win32 reverse engineering techniques applied to Live Messenger research and plug-in development.
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Windows Live Messenger Plugin Demo
Copyright (C) 2008  Hern�n Di Pietro

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

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#ifndef CINFOWND_H
#define CINFOWND_H

// defaults pixels in width & height
const ULONG CIW_DEFAULT_WIDTH  = 300UL;
const ULONG CIW_DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 250UL;
const DWORD CIW_ANIM_TIME	   = 150;


const WCHAR wszHeader[] = L"Contact Information";
const WCHAR wszSignInNameHdr[] = L"Sign-In Name";
const WCHAR wszFdlyNameHdr[] = L"Friendly Name";
const WCHAR wszStatusHeader[] = L"Status";
const WCHAR wszBlockedHeader[] = L"Blocked";
const WCHAR wszCanPageHeader[] = L"Can Page?";
const WCHAR wszPhoneMobileHeader[] = L"Mobile Phone";
const WCHAR wszPhoneWorkHeader[] = L"Work Phone";
const WCHAR wszPhoneHomeHeader[] = L"Home Phone";

typedef struct
{
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS msStat;
	WCHAR* wszStatus;
} STATUS_STRINGS;

const STATUS_STRINGS statStrings[] = 
{
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_AWAY, L"Away",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_BE_RIGHT_BACK, L"Be Right Back",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_BUSY, L"Busy",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_IDLE, L"Idle",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_INVISIBLE, L"Invisible",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_LOCAL_CONNECTING_TO_SERVER, L"Connecting to server",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_LOCAL_DISCONNECTING_FROM_SERVER, L"Disconnecting from server",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_LOCAL_FINDING_SERVER, L"Finding Server",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_LOCAL_SYNCHRONIZING_WITH_SERVER, L"Syncing with server",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_OFFLINE, L"Offline",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_ON_THE_PHONE, L"On the Phone",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_ONLINE, L"Online",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_OUT_TO_LUNCH, L"Out to lunch",
	MSNMessenger::MISTATUS_UNKNOWN, L"Unknown status"	
};

const unsigned int NUM_STATUS_STRINGS_ELEM = sizeof(statStrings)/sizeof(statStrings[0]);

void CreateContactInfoWnd(HWND* pHWnd);

#endif //CINFOWND_H

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