Extending Windows Messenger With C#

[shawn957376]

Im trying to extend the Windows Messenger functionality. This is what I would like to do. I want to create a system account, say we call it Company Directory. A user should be able to start a chat session with the system account. The user is able to send messages to the account and the account will respond with search results. For example: the user could type in Who is John Smith and the system account would trigger a search event that would then query active directory for John Smith and return a formatted message to the user with John Smiths information.

Im interested in writing the part that queries AD. Can anyone point me to documentation or tutorials that would help. I would like to stay away from COM and stick with .Net