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• Ben Dot Smith Possible Cool Features that could be added to Live Messenger

  First of all, thanks for all the developer who worked on the Windows Live Messenger, I have got to say, this is probably the best windows messenger yet. I like a lot of the new features like offline messages, sharefolders and microsoft attemp on internet phone, the last one I haven't got the chance to try it yet, but once I will give it a go later. Anyway, back to my topic, besides the improvement done on windows messenger, I think there's a few ...Show All

• T.Schmutz Help with Sending Files with messenger api activity

  Hello Everyone, I'm at witts ending trying to figure out how to do this in my javascript and/or vbscript.  I was told in my previous post "Issue with SendFile...." that i cannot use the ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") because it doesn't return the right type of object.  I need to create an IFileInfo object and i cannot find any documentation on how to do this.  If anyone knows how to do this in COM or any other way.... ...Show All

• Dragos.Stefanescu Pushpin in v3 only accepts images as icons

  Hello, What happened to the ability in v2 to simply use a div tag and style as opposed to an image for the pushpin icon. It appears that v3 only accepts an image source. This really has messed us up as we now have to dynamically generate images on the fly which has a huge impact on performance. Any particular reason why this has been changed It appears as if the image source is used in an html img tag (within the pushpin generation). Why ...Show All

• Gagandeep Singh MSN Search Developer Site Error.

  I have been trying to access the msn search dev site all day to get an appid so that I can try out the api and I keep getting the same error: The operation failed. Please try again later. Has anyone else been having this problem Thanks, sn http://search.msn.com/developer/ Hi/Hola ansaria, I wrote to MSN Search Manager in Spain with better luck than you. He has replied very quickly with the solution: The pr ...Show All

• CPlusPlus 8.0 beta crashes

  I just installed 8.0 beta. all fine but it crashes the second I try to type an IM. ("has experienced dificulty and has to close") Also Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 frequently closes ("has experienced dificulty and has to close") right in the middle of an activity. Reports are sent but nothing ever comes of them. Are you running a pre-release version of IE7 If so, please install the latest prerel ...Show All

• RobertBarnes how to test launching an app directly

  Hi, in the MSN Messenger Launch Site SDK it says that you can open a standalone (single user) application by doing this: var AppID = "10331003"; var emailID = ""; obj.LaunchApp(AppID, emailID); It says that '1033' is the country code and '1003 is the application code (Helix). How can I test this with my application The MSGRP2P.xml has an EntryID that needs to be 7 for test programs. I tried to launch me test ap ...Show All

• desifunde Worlds Best App Contest Winners

  It’s time to announce the winning applications for MSNR Messenger’s Worlds Best App Contest , which MSN ran from September through December 31 st , 2005. There were a lot of great entries, hard work and interesting new ideas for building new applications and games within Messenger. Submitted applications were judged based on the official rules and judging criteria which included creativity, launches during the contest, suit ...Show All

• MatthewH Submit your MSN Messenger Activity API Feature Requests!

  First of all, thank you for downloading the MSN Messenger Activity API!  In the MSN Messenger Product Group we are constantly looking at ways to increase customer satisfaction within our products.  In this case, it's YOU, the developers that we aim to please.  Now that you've seen the SDK and hopefully have submitted an application to the contest, please post your feature requests for the next version of the API. Thanks! ...Show All

• bohan Default emotions and Custom emotions

  Hi Guys: Is it possible to add a default emotion in MSN programming, say, drag a "My emotion" to "Default emotion" No this is not possible, you can add emoticons/default emoticons with the UX only. Thank you for your question! -- Roxana ...Show All

• Big Kahuna Test game: MessengerQuest

  Hurrah! Finally I got Messenger-Quest done... Four days of terrible hard work has resulted in a really cool game :) Unfortunately the <s>lazy bastar...</s> people checking the apps have holiday too, and they can't check it till after newyears :( So, Because I don't want those 4 days of work to go to waste, I've put the Msgrp2p file needed online :) http://www.stuffplug.com/MessengerQuest/msgrp2p.xml I'm sure you know how it works ;) ...Show All

• poopiman last time logged in

  they should add a feature that would tell you when the last time some one was logged in even if your not online. ...Show All

• EastShores Pushpin Onclick Event?

  Hi has anyone managed to handle the on click event of a push pin yet because i cant find any events for such a thing You can tell something happens because (in IE at least) you can hear the normal "tick" noise just like when you click a link, when you click on a pushpin, I need to be able to handle this even so I can action the users click on the pushpin thats a damn good idear my friend : ...Show All

• davidb64il how to Develop a bot?

  hi, i want to write a bot for msn messenger using c#, should i write msn messenger from a to z like yahoo or is there any easier way to do so i'm asking this because i saw this option in msn, its not bot for ads nor for flooding its kind bot something like answer machine but not in english language is there a way to do so if i have to write the entire messenger where can i find the protocol details, or at least API for it thx in adva ...Show All

• Martin Kulov - MVP Visual Studio Only?

  Is Visual Studio .NET 2003 or above going to be a requirement for MSN Search API developers   I know it's early yet, however that's the only SDK I see and there's no information indicating anything else will be available. I ask because some of us have been developing API's (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, etc, etc) for a long time now.  You're going to be missing out on an awful lot of really good developers if you're going to have the r ...Show All

• Julius1966 Bot curiosity

  Is it possible to write a bot like the imapps bot using the activity sdk If so are their any pointers If not what API should be used to write a MSN Messenger chat transcript bot if your taling about how it says something like 'hey, type menu', as soon as you start a convo with it before typing, i think its because they also utilize the connection events included in the SDK. I have not used these before and i d ...Show All