Well, the build seems to have leaked. Most of you probably saw the screenshots of it and read its feature list. One of the interesting features is Add-ins. These add-ins allow you to write a small application which can interact with the Messenger Client.

 

However, this feature is disabled by default and can only be enabled with a registry tweak. Because that certain registry key is only being read during the startup of Messenger, you have to restart Messenger in order to enable support for Add-ins.

 

To install a certain add-in into Messenger, go to Tools, Options and select the option Add-ins. Then hit the Add to Messenger... button, select the DLL file and enable the "Automatically turn on..." checkbox. If you now change your state to away, the plugin is loaded.

 

Download: Registry tweak
Download: Sample secretary plugin (DLL)

Download: Sample secretary plugin (Code)

 

-ZoRoNaX