MessengerGroup Object

Deprecated. The MessengerGroup object corresponds to the IMessengerGroup interface. It represents a single group as stored in the Messenger object's internal group list.

Remarks

MSMSGS.EXE implements this object.

A MessengerGroup object is not intended to be created separately through CoCreateInstance or other Component Object Model (COM) object instantiation techniques. Client implementers should access existing MessengerGroup objects only after creating the Messenger object. After this object is created, a MessengerGroup object can be referenced through one of the following:

MessengerGroup objects will continue to exist after they are removed from the contact list programmatically or through user action until they are released. In Microsoft Visual C++, you can determine whether MessengerGroup objects are no longer in the group list by monitoring DMessengerEvents::OnGroupRemoved events. In most cases, a MessengerGroup object that is no longer in the group list should be released. All objects should be released as part of a cleanup or shutdown routine.

Important  MessengerGroup is no longer available in Windows Vista. See Windows Messenger for more information.

Interfaces Implemented

IMessengerGroup

Object Information

Header and IDL files msgrua.h, msgrua.idl
CLSID Not available
Minimum availability Messenger 4.5
Minimum operating systems Windows XP