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• KamalKumar Contest Deadline Question

  Hello, I was wondering whether the launches for our applications will count past the 31st, until the winners are announced or will the applications be shut down for public access after the 31st My application should be complete on 27th-28th (before 30th for sure) and I would also like to get a chance to get some feedback (as well as launch points) from visitors and I (as well as most other people who entered this competition a little late) ...Show All

• LeonelParra 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

• netomin Consuming MSN Search Web Service from PHP

  Good news about Microsoft allowing access to their MSN Search service through SOAP ! It was definitely about time. I've been trying to build a MSN Search API client with PHP. I'm using nuSOAP to interface with the SOAP server. However, I'm having a little trouble getting it to work. Just for the record, I've had developed several SOAP clients succesfuly (for example, using Google API). This is the code that I'm using (of course, where it says ...Show All

• Cesar.NET help

  i've download the new beta messenger but i just cannot sign in... can anyone teach me how to make the msn messenger 8.0 (beta) work i really need help as in i like the design of 8.0 Hi, please use the MSN Messenger 8 Beta Newsgroups on this topic. ...Show All

• Venu Sridhar Image search?

  I'm not seeing a source option for performing an MSN image search.  Google and Yahoo both provide this, why not Microsoft Thanks. Ray -- Wish I could give you an ETA.  We're working hard to get additional data feeds into the API as fast as possible.  Stay tuned to this forum - as soon as I get the info on release timeline, I'll post it here. Seth, Many thanks.  Looking forward to i ...Show All

• birch Presence

  Any news yet on presence information Yahoo and aol have had this for a long time and MSN is currently the one that is preventing us from launching a presence indicator on our collaborative community. Thanks for any info. We have nothing to announce at this time. -Scott ...Show All

• castrini Windows Live Messenger Beta Invitation Winners

  Last week, the Messenger team offered Windows Live Messenger Beta invitations to the first 5 people who submitted Activity Apps that passed the provisioning process. Drum roll please...  And the winners are: 1. Notesaic by Daniel Tse 2. Quatro by Chris Weeink 3. Boter kaas en Eieren by Glenn Klijn 4. Let's Play Chess by Prasad DV 5. CooperYoung by Frans-Willem Hardijzer Congratulations to the winners!  You will be receiving your beta i ...Show All

• StefanS MSN Messenger Plugin

  Hey everyone, As most of you, I am a regular msn messenger user as well as a developer. Recently I was told by one of my friends about MSN Messenger PLUS (plugin) created by Patchou and I was REALLY impressed. I also downloaded other plugins (stuffplug, anonymail etc...) and I found all of them extremely useful. I was wondering how I can write my own plugins for msn messenger. I have searched and found some information but nothing that wou ...Show All

• Skar Issue with window.external.Channel.SendFile() Method ... Need help Please

  Hello everyone: I have my SendFile tag set to true in my xml.  I can successfully get the file i want to send by using the var fso = new ActiveXObject(" Scripting.FileSystemObject") then calling the getfile(path to file) method.  But, when i try to send this using the code that Microsoft provided in the MSN Messenger Activity API help file as well as microsofts site; I keep getting this error every time I run my activity.  "S ...Show All

• Masarius Msn seems to be something wrong in my computer>

  Hello there, (to everyone). I wanted to ask everybody opinion about these problem i facing. First, there is no question and solution on the help section of msn messenger. Hence, my msn messenger cannot send file, i mean transfer file to my buddy. Is all my friends i cannot transfer any file. ( i scan before my computer and no virus indicate). Continue, for my hotmail i cannot send attachment. ---------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• Batool Accessing MSN Search Web Service from Perl

  I've been trying to build a MSN Search API client with Perl using SOAP::Lite to interface with the SOAP server.  I'm not an expert using Perl or SOAP so any help would be appreciated. Perl Code use SOAP::Lite +trace; my $appID = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; my $msn = SOAP::Lite->service( 'http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx wsdl' ); my $response = $msn->Search( (    'Request' => (   &n ...Show All

• LetsConvert Bonus Challenge Winners!

  Ok, here they are; the Worlds Best App Bonus Challenge winners! Cards Exchange - Aleksei Vassiljev Tankwars - Frans-Willem Hardijzer Chingo - Jeremy Moreland T4IM - Kotaro Nakayama Hangman - Ramy El-Dardiry Congratulations to the winners!  You will receive your Amazon gift certificates shortly from Gage, our contest administrator. Also a big Thank You! to everyone who submitted applications.  You are all candidates for the big pri ...Show All

• Devinder Singh Image search?

  I'm not seeing a source option for performing an MSN image search.  Google and Yahoo both provide this, why not Microsoft Thanks. Seth, Still no image search   Can you tell me if it will be weeks or months before this feature is available Thanks, Ray Hey Ray -- We're working to provide a broad variety of data via the MSN Search API.  Today we offer Web r ...Show All

• Craig Cullum not well-formed (invalid token) error

  I keep getting this error that crashes my program: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 1945, byte 2017 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 187 What does this error mean and is there a workaround Looking at my log files, my initial impression is that the api chokes on special characters in html, and this in turn crashes the api. Thanks for any help. I'm ...Show All

• Bababooey Errors in contest entries?

  Some of us who've submitted our entries to the contest may not be aware of bugs in our apps. If you find one, please post it here. We can determine if the problem is in the Activity API or our app's code and then elevate any relevant issues. Please include: The name of the app The exact error message (including line number if displayed) Steps to reproduce the error An objective suggestion to correct the problem By the way, my app is ...Show All