Using Office Communicator from Silverlight?

Question

Hi! I'm developing a intranet Silverlight app, and customers like to have it integrated with Office Communicator.

I find it strange, but the only blog post I've found is this one: http://unified-communications-development.blogspot.com/2008/05/creating-cwa-client-with-silverlight-2.html

What are my options?
The three I've figured out is

Option 1) Using the AJAX api will enable me to do precense and im, but using voice and video is also required
Option 2) Creating an ActiveX wrapping calls to the Communicator Client API, and talking to the ActiveX from my Siverlight app via JavaScript would work, but that's not my first choice
Option 3) Wait for a Silverlight Office Communicator Control. This would be the prefered choise. I know (or hope?) next version of Silverlight will provide Microphone and Camera support. ( This is the WPF version: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5001d612-533a-4721-91ea-da990d94ff0f&DisplayLang=en . I'd like a Silverlight version to)

I'm really happy to get some feedback on what to do

Also if someone could give a hint on the roadmap regards to Silverlight I would be glad.


Thanks, Lars Erik Finholt

Answer 1

Silverlight both 2 and 3 do/will not support audio/video since there is no support for microphones or cameras. If audio/video is required then an activex that uses Communicator Automation or one that uses the UC Client APIS directly can meet this requirement.