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• Bryan Kardisco MSN PROBLEM

  ive recently bought a brand new laptop and installed msn messenger ( from the msn site). When i go to sign in it really lags alot, and it never actually signs in... Sometimes i get a error message 80040111 and sometimes it just asks me to try again. Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling it hundreds of times not to mention deleting any addons or patches. Ive tried to update that DLL file aswell but still get the same message. Windows messenger ...Show All

• vinayshetty 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

• Aaron C Miller - MO Get the status of my friends in a web page

  Hello, I would like to show the MSN messenger status of my friends on my web page. Do you know how I could do this with javascript or PHP or even other languages Thanx in advance, It is possible to do it, if your friends have Web2Messenger . See this page for more info. sorry not supported today. When it will be supported ...Show All

• José Nelson Yahoo API

  I would recommend everyone here to also take a look at the Yahoo API.  It is far superior to the MSN API.  You can find it at http://developer.yahoo.net/ First, they actually provide all the searching capability that MSN provides, plus extra functionality like image search.  Second, they have great language support.  Third, they have integration with other sites like Flickr.  Fourth, they are very responsive to bug re ...Show All

• JohnsonInBeijing Can you point me to an MSN Messenger forum (non-developer)?

  I have an MSN Messenger question that appears to be outside of the scope of this particular forum (non-development question).  However, I can't seem to find an MSN Msgr-specific, non-development forum.   Can anyone point me in the direction of a proper forum to post my question.  Any assistance would be appreciated.  THANKS! Also there are some fan sites, like http://www.mess.be/ ...Show All

• Debbio Daily limits with application ID and IP address

  I'd like to get a little clarification about the application ID and IP address. I understand that I get 10,000 daily requests for each of my 2 different IP addresses when I use the same application ID. But if I had 2 different application IDs making requests from the same IP address, would they each have a 10,000 limit, or would the total combined limit by 10,000 The Yahoo API doesn't care about the application ID, just the IP address: From htt ...Show All

• sofsab Gwaam Concept - Need help!

  Good day We have developed a new concept in multi user gaming called Gwaam. We need help from someone with the MSN API to produce a Gwaam for MSN version. Desktop demo and instructions can be seen at www.gwaam.com if you can help or know anyone please let us know  - understand there is time involved so we can be flexible about payments/shares/recognition It's a pretty cool game. It would be great ...Show All

• IbrahimSA Access Denied?

  I've been playing around with using the MetaWeblog API to make a little front end app in C# for posting my blog entries and various other functions the API supports. Recently I've been getting nothing but Access Denied errors. Is it possible that Spaces has locked me out of my account due to too many password errors or something and if so how does one go about getting it unlocked I have verified my username and password and I was using ...Show All

• emilioml Using Caching Application Block

  HI Every one i want to use caching application block in my application. What expiration policy should i implement in my application to accomplish following requirements  i want to place data table in cache and that item should expire when the underlaying db table which is corresponding to this datatable is updated. keeping in mind application is distributed as well and i dont want to a round trip to db server on every f ...Show All

• zuz29 Line does not show till click on map.

  Hi, Just started using the Map Controls. Adding a line to a map, following the instructions in the "Virtual Earth Map Control SDK, version 3.0" help file, and compared my code to various examples. Code runs okay (no javascript errors), loads & shows the map, but the line does not show till I click on the map. The line will also disappear if you move the map with the navigation arrows at the top. Same problem in IE 6 and Firefox 1.5 ...Show All

• Brian Cahill 8.0 Beta - What's the difference?

  I'll freely admit to being a non technical person when it comes to backend programming but the fact is that I can't see all that much of a difference from the v7.x of the software. The only thing I've noticed is that the interface is a bit chunky and it signs on a fraction quicker. Is there something I am missing that would make it seem like a real update I am sorry but this forum is for software development ...Show All

• Chandu Sujay DateTime field

  What does the DateTime field in results mean Does it correspond with the crawled date, origin server date, or some other date Is it present in all search results I'd like to be able to sort results by date, but I'm not sure what this result field means. Thanks for your help! -j ...Show All

• Lina79 Questions regarding MSN Messenger API

  Great news! I have 2 questions about the API: 1. Will the API be managed or native I would love to have a managed API or at least a managed wrapper supported by Microsoft (like PIA for Office). 2. Using this API, will it be possible for external applications to send and listen for messages, but invisible to the end-user One more question: 3. Will this release include support for MSN Messenger for Pocket PC If the answer is no, are ther ...Show All

• Keith Boyd -MSFT why cant see all spaces from msn 8.0 betta

  Help please solve my problem/ After install MSN Messenger 8 betta - when i Click on yellow star near my friend - i have message - we cant get to this space right now... I heard that the Messenger team fixed this issue. Is this still a problem only partialy fix, if the person doesnt update his/her contact detail or blog for like 1-2 months, their spaces/contact details migh ...Show All

• ChiragKhabaria 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