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• keiop 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. Ruggerz, the "Inside Windows Live Messenger" blog is a great source for this sort of info, see ...Show All

• AlanKlein 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

• Steve_B 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 And again an update... The Gwaam Bo ...Show All

• Hades255 How do I save a custom emoticon as a GIF file?

  Wondering if anyone can help me. I have a custom emoticon that I got from a friend (right click and "add") that I can use in Messenger fine, but I would like to know how to save it as a GIF file to use it elsewhere. Either that, or where is the GIF file stored, is it on my computer somewhere (I can use it only when I am signed in as myself and on this computer) Would appreciate any help, thanks. dEcib3L (TM) ...Show All

• George Eckert Timing for Posting Apps Once They Are Submitted? Please set expectations...

  Ok, it's been over a week since we've submitted our apps (you mentioned that there were 11 entered in the 5-day contest) and I still haven't even heard back on the status of my app. Is it in testing Is it about to be posted The first 5 have been posted and are getting a good headstart on the launches (Tank War is up to over 10K now...great job by the way). Traffic volume is part of the judging criteria and we are starting ou ...Show All

• pins 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

• Brian Cahill Windows Live Messenger Problem

  I was Invited to be a Windows Live Messenger BETA tester. So I installed it and opened it up. When I tried to talk to one of my contacts there was an error, and it closed Windows Live Messenger. So I open it up again, and try and chat, and it happens again. And this happens every time I try. I've uninstalled it, re-installed, repaired it tons of times. Can anyone help me -FrdBed Can i recieve a link ...Show All

• Phatsuo Free Tools for Building BOTS/Activities within Messenger

  Starting today Conversagent one of MSN Messenger’s platform ISV’s has decided to make a version of it’s SDK for building BOTS and Activity applications on MSN Messenger available for free. The offer will provide developers use of their tools free for six months to build applications within Messenger. The SDK limits the number of sessions to 50,000 per month however on a case by case basis Conversagent will remove all session constraints for the ...Show All

• MartyT Developing Live Messenger AddIn's: Help!

  Hello people: First at all, it's my first time posting on this forums so I would to make a little presentation of me. My name is Christian and I'm a member of a Dotnetclub in Sevilla, Spain. (Dotnetclubs are associations of students whose love .NET platform, and we have Microsoft Iberica's support). I'm developing some AddIns for Windows Live Messenger (v8.0.0683), and I'm going to do a conference, but I'm having some problems. I made an Add-In ...Show All

• NytewolfAU2k7 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

• CGR 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

• masontwo AddPushpin v3 - Invalid argument

  Hi, I am using V3 and trying to add a very simple pushpin with the following code: var pinID = 1; var latLong = new VELatLong(latitude,longitude); var pin = new VEPushpin(pinID,latLong); map.AddPushpin(pin); latitude and longitude are passed into the function. However the AddPushpin method throws Invalid argument. I have even tried creating the VEPushpin with just the Id but I get the same error. I am using the fo ...Show All

• brownjn Limiting results to one domain or a set of explicitly defined domains

  I would like to limit the web search results to the particular Web site domain that the api is implemented on. So that all the results return will belong to this domain. I can manually filter the results by the result Url property but because of the limit on the number of results being returned I will have to make consecutive requests to the search server until I have completely checked all results or until a tempory collection of results rea ...Show All

• czetsuya Server power failure

  Hi I submitted my app some days ago and it hasn't been uploaded yet. The problem is that my web server went down because of a power failure and I've restarted it this morning. I guess they didn't test the games last night, but I'd like to know if they will retry to test the app in case they can't load it once, or send an email to ask what's happening... Thanks L Well, that message was from some ...Show All

• Gkl 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