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• Hana 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

• dba_2005_ Rookie <PassportSiteID> Obsolete

  Just found out that even when <PassportSiteID>1</PassportSiteID> is specified in the configuration xml file, it still does NOT provide you with access to user's email and such unless <UserProperties>True</UserProperties> is specified (which is, by the way, not allowed in the rules of this competition). If the API at least mentioned this, it would've saved me from redoing my application design in the last minute. ...Show All

• moyoz Problems with Messenger Beta 8.0

  I received an invite to messenger beta and I’ve intalled in my computer. When I connected I realize that all my contact were gone !!! And appear a message saying that I have do add more contacts !!! This problem is related to my passport My email is from gmail. Can be that Anyone knows Thanks. Hey...did you get an answer to this I am having the same problem. Thanks. ...Show All

• Grady McGhee IE7 Beta 2 Enables XMLHTTP without ActiveX

  One of the biggest requests we got during the contest was to make XMLHTTP and XMLDOM functionality available without requiring ActiveX provisioning. I'm happy to announce that there is now a way to do this. IE7 moves the XMLHTTP and XMLDOM functionality into the core IE binary. This means you can now create Activity Apps using XMLHTTP and XMLDOM functionality without needing the ActiveX provisioning flag. IE7 Beta 2 is available from http: ...Show All

• Ibrahim Dwaikat Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the c ...Show All

• hpreece 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

• David Sedman Displaying the search result

  Hey,   I’m using the MSN search API and my question is; what is the easiest/fastest way to display the results on web browser after some processing   Thanks, Coby Well, all of the results are returned from the MSN Search webservice as strings so you could put a placeholder control on your webpage and then dynamically add hyperlink and label controls for each search result that is re ...Show All

• Swarnima MSN search App Id

  Hi I'm trying to make an application using msn search api but I can't get my application id. I've read I should go to http://search.msn.com/developer but that page doesn't work. I also got a code example that had an id to test it in case you just want that, but it gave me an error. Any idea where to get a working id Thanks L Hi I don't know exactly why but I always get the same error ...Show All

• Kakurady Submit an App - Get the Windows Live Messenger Beta!

  Would you like early access to the Windows Live Messenger Beta Starting today, November 8 th and running thru 9:00am PST on Monday, November 14 th The first 5 people to submit Activity Apps to the Worlds Best App contest and successfully pass compliance checking will receive an immediate invitation to the Windows Live Messenger Beta! Be one of the first people in the world outside of Microsoft to run with the next version of Windows ...Show All

• rnv how to buy the authorized code(digital sign) of MSN winks for public usage?

  We’ve seen your great product MSN Messenger 7.5 include a feature which is named Winks, but after Messenger version 7, the third part customized winks need a digital sign for public usage. Would you like to tell me how can we create or buy that digital sign for the winks made by ourselves And we want that winks be some kind of advertisement for our customers, so the license should be commercial. And please send us a ...Show All

• NeoHippo Anyone have it working with w.blogger?

  I followed the instructions in Carnage4Life's blog but I keep getting: Title: w.bloggar: 12029 Message: The attempt to connect to the server failed. I've gotten it to work with w.bloggar v4.00.0191 That's the version I have (I just downloaded it and confirmed the version via the tray icon while with wizard was up) but I get that error. If I try to go to: ht ...Show All

• ko712000 Maximizing problem with 7.5

  Hi there, I have a problem with my MSN messenger...it will no longer maximize off the bottom task bar. The MSN today pop up will not maximize either. I can open messenger without a problem and can still send instant messages by right clicking on the icon in the tray. I have no problem using messenger on other computers so it is not an issue with my sign in. As well, I have deleted the program a few times in hope that a bug may be worked out b ...Show All

• dd3 BlogID

  Hi, can tell me anybody where I find BlogID of my blog at my MSNspace Thanks -jregent- If you look at the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msnspaces/MetaWeblogAPI_newPost_Method.asp frame=true it states that the blog ID should be the string "MyBlog" ...Show All

• arcnazgul msgrp2p.xml does not work for me?...

  Please help with the simplest thing: I copied the SDK's msgrp2p.xml file into the msn messenger directory, closed and re-launched messenger (7.0) - and: no new entry was visible in Activities/Games. Thanks! Maroy, When you are running an Activity app using the msgrp2p.xml file, the entry to launch the app appears on the "Actions" menu.  Applications will not appear on the Activities or Games menus until th ...Show All

• Angel Valdez How to call a web server asyncronously without ActiveX

  My article at http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/MSNMessengerActivity.asp shows how to call a web server from your MSN Messenger Activity without using ActiveX. When the update gets added by tomarrow hopefully then it will also show how I simulated a mouse pointer so that each user can see the others mouse movements without using ActiveX.   Check them out if you need either of these techniques for your activities. With the ...Show All