Create application link to Skype profile

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This doesn’t seem to be very well documented, but there are ways to specify an action for a Skype profile link. This is the syntax

skype:profile_name?action

Examples of such actions are

  • call to call
  • chat to chat
  • voicemail to leave a voice mail
  • sendfile to send a file
  • add to add to contacts
  • userinfo to view profile

In this case then, the link to view the profile would look like this

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16177332/skype:profile_name?userinfo">Link to my profile</a>

See also the Skype URIs page on MSDN.

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