TSAPI question

[Mario Flores]

Hi , I am working on a TSAPI proyect and I'm writing you to see if you can
help me, I have googled all week and obtained not much information, hope you
can have a few minutes to share a little knowledge.

I have to detect the invcomming calls (Phone numbers) on an avaya switch, I
have a windows xp machine and visual studio 2008 (c#).

It's hard for me to understand how the TAPI, TSAPI works, because I don't
have access to the switch, at least not during developing and I can't test
to see if any code works with the switch,

So, the idea that I came with so far, is to have a PBX emulator and some
terminal emulator to simulate the calls,so far I can test the calls with
TAPI , but I understand that TSAPI protocol is different or for the
avaya/Lucent systems, my question to you: can I code a C# code to obtain
the incoming calls from a generic PBX using TAPI, and expect this to work
with an avaya switch?, I have installed the

Avaya\AE Services\TSAPI Client\ (TSTEST32.exe) but it can't detect the
emulated servers (TAPI) on my windows xp. anyone knows?

[Andreas Marschall [exMVP TAPI]]

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Mario,
please don't mix TAPI and TSPAPI.
The are complete different CTI protocolls.
This newsgroup is soleley about TAPI.
So what is your question about?

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[mario]

I'll rephrase my question, I need to download a TSAPI server emulator, but
can't find one, and need to know if a TAPI server emulator can work , I
need to get the incoming calls, .. if I use a TAPI server and code a C# app
to get the incom.calls whold it work the same way?.
sorry of I posted here, didn't found any other place.
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> I'll rephrase my question, I need to download a TSAPI server emulator, but
> can't find one, and need to know if a TAPI server emulator can work , I
> need to get the incoming calls, .. if I use a TAPI server and code a C#
> app to get the incom.calls whold it work the same way?.

Mario,
I don't have experience with TSAPI, so I can't comment on this parts of your
question.

If you want to use a telephony device with TAPI
then you need a TAPI driver (= TSP = TAPI Service Provider) specifically
your this device,
in your case the Avaya PBX.
So you need to check with Avaya whether they offer a TSP for your PBX.

Regarding TAPI and .NET see KB article "841712 - Telephony Application
Programming Interface (TAPI) functionality is not supported from managed
code".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841712

Please have a look at the following freely available TAPI2 (#2,3,4) / TAPI3
(#1) wrappers:

#1) JulMar's ITAPI3 - TAPI 3.0 wrapper for .NET 2.0
existing TAPI3.0 code based on TAPI3 interop can easily be ported
http://www.julmar.com/blog/mark/CategoryView,category,Tapi.aspx

#2) JulMar's ATAPI.NET.
TAPI 2.x managed library for application development
http://www.julmar.com/tapi/

#3) Helen Warn's C# TAPI2 Wrapper is now available as version 1.2.0.1 with a
small TestApp both for Visual Studio 2005.
Helen agreed that I put the wrapper and sample on my server for download:
http://www.i-b-a-m.de/AgileSoftwareInc/HelenWarnCsharpTapi2LibraryWrapper_Version_1_2_0_1.zip

#4) Angus Comber's Cuba Control:
http://www.iteloffice.com/products/cti_api.html

[Angus]

In addition to Andreas reply, Avaya do provide a TSAPI simulator you can use
for testing. It is not a free item.

As Andreas said, TSAPI is a totally different API to TAPI. TAPI and TSAPI
are totally different. In addition, TSAPI is based on the CSTA protocol but
the encoding is different. So a TSAPI program will not work with a switch
outputting CSTA messages.

Angus

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