How to make external emoticons on Lync

Question

I want to make external emoticons(I got images, like jpeg, png, whatever I want to import), and I want to import to Microsoft Lync application.

I heard that there is a Lync SDK for developing Lync application, but I don't know it can be used what I want to make.

Does anybody have any idea use external emoticons in my chat on Lync?

Solution

You could definitely create a lync client using the lync SDK and replace certain placeholders like :mynewemoticon: with an image.

You'd have to Listen to the conversation events and do the replace on the Conversation's MessageReceived events.

Transferring images through the existing lync requires setting up a sort of tcp file transfer and is not really what you're after.

Comments

[Willem]

Lync can send HTML messages. I have not tried, but you could attempt to use the client SDK to catch the messages and replace placeholders with <img .. /> html codes before handing them to the client to handle.