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• Homebrew Trackback spam editor

  I have been using spaces for a while and although it is painfully slow I really like its functionality and appearance. However, trackback spam is driving me nuts and I have had to turn it off. The MSN Spaces way of removing trackbacks, one at a time and a 15 second delay between each, is not very friendly. I have been thinking about creating a simple application that removes trackback spam, but to my surprise the API for MSN spaces is ...Show All

• ShowMethodHang Question About Rules

  In the rules, it says that the participant should "Have created your contest entry yourself." Does that imply that no use of code written by other people is allowed even if the entry itself is written only by you (i.e. the person who's code you are using doesn't have any affiliation with you or your entry and their code acts only as a way to increase development speed and decrease debugging time) For example, in my projects I often use ...Show All

• kani128 Trackback spam editor

  I have been using spaces for a while and although it is painfully slow I really like its functionality and appearance. However, trackback spam is driving me nuts and I have had to turn it off. The MSN Spaces way of removing trackbacks, one at a time and a 15 second delay between each, is not very friendly. I have been thinking about creating a simple application that removes trackback spam, but to my surprise the API for MSN spaces is ...Show All

• ImranBaig MSN Search Web Service SDK Version 0.60 Now Available

  I have noticed that I cannot get more than 50 results back. Is this a new limit I am using the SourceRequest.Count = 1000 and 9 come back. Any number up to 50 works but anything over 50 only brings in 9 records. Am I doing something wrong Thanks.   Hi Marco, thanks for your continued use of the MSN Search Web Service API and your thoughtful questions in the forum. The limit that you ran into has been present since our l ...Show All

• Milen Lazarov MSFT 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 ...Show All

• Brian.Nelson MSN Best App Competition Prizes?

  Hello winners of the MSN Best App competition. Being one of the winners myself, I was wondering whether anyone has received anything (documents, forms, PRIZES) after they sent their affidavit of eligibility back to Microsoft I tried contacting Jennifer Johnson one month ago and she said that they are still in the process of sending out additional forms for us to fill out. She said that they are planning on having all of them sent out by the e ...Show All

• Babbage Atlas Web Messenger

  Hi I am Hokgiarto. I am looking a way how to make a yahoo, msn, and a local messenger using Atlas. Can somehome help me how to make Atlas version of www.e-messenger.net I use it to make my final assignment. Thank you for your help. I want to know what class to send a data to what address and port. I mean first step is to login. I have to send user name & password to server. How I do that using .net 2.0 atlas send to where (the server ...Show All

• PMBT Bonus Challenge

  I have read the e-mail about Bonus Challenge at 18:00. Decided to participate - and to make small, but useful (I hope ) app. At 24:00 I have completed the work. During this 6 hours I had time to drive from work to home, to have dinner, to read the last news, and of course to write code and test it. As a result: 15575 characters of code and 5 images. Extreme programming At 00:30 I have submitted it. BTW, question to admin - I hope it was submit ...Show All

• Andrea Schaffernorth Turkish localization !

  Are any plans about the Turkish localization of MSN Spaces, since Turkiye have many MSN Spaces and the figure increases day by day. I can work for localization and can find the staff for this. This forum is for questions about the MSN Spaces APIs. Feedback or questions about the MSN Spaces product are probably better directed to http://spaces.msn.com/thespacecraft/ ya and also all turkish peop ...Show All

• jjuser how can i develop a plug-in for Msn-messenger

  Hi all, i'd like to try to develop plug-ins for msn messenger that like sth happened when i play a song within Microsoft Windows Media Player. Does MS provide some APIs or SDKs for doing this thanks a lot! Well, there is an API but it is not documented at the moment, but you can make use of the Windows Messenger API documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/WinMessenger/winmessenger/messenger_entry.asp   ...Show All

• Deepesh Srivastava Accessing the "personal message"

  Not 100% sure what it´s called in english version but you know, the "tagline" that doubles as "now playing". (i wanna use both "now playing" and "tagline") I´ve tried looking trough APIs but sofar no luck. Anyone have any idea on how to do it Ravv, The official name for the message you're asking about is the "Personal Status Message" or PSM for short.  We don't yet have an API exposed to give ...Show All

• ClausT Beta 8

  Tried to open Messenger Beta. Said I had to upgrade to 8. Downloaded it. Cannot install it UNTIL I UPGRADE TO XP! But I AM already XP. Now I am DITW ( dead in the water) cannot use at all! this is a newsgroup about developement please go to http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx ralph ...Show All

• Rafer_Smith BOTS on MSN

  There have been a number of questions about BOTS in the forum in various theads so I thought I would provide this post with a broader update on the topic. MSN has recently started licensing BOTS on the network.  The huge benefit of a licensed BOT is that it will have contact limitations removed (the reverse list), so that millions of people could connect to the same ID.  Our goal is to enable a broad network of these IM applications ...Show All

• limonada And the winner is...

  Within a few weeks, the winner of the Worlds best app contest will be anounced, so I think it's an interesting question to ask: Who (or which app) will win   My guess:   In the Games section I think somebody from the netherlands will win... There are a few good games (actualy a lot of good games, but these are the best in my opinion): - Hangman (very basic and simple, doesn't require a fast pc, everybody knows how to pla ...Show All

• Bruenor Using MSN Search from aspx page - Questions on getting started

  Hi, I'm trying to get started on using MSN search and having problems getting started. I'm working through the MSN Search Web Service SDK Help (ver 0.60 beta). I'm trying to add search capability to a web site. On the help page, "Accessing the MSN Search Web Service SOAP API" , I have followed all the instructions down to adding using <AppName>.<WebReferenceName>. The page won't build with the following error: &qu ...Show All