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• Tomas Galvez initiate my webcam from application created for msgrp2p.xml

  hi, i would like know how initiate my messenger webcam from a aplication created for me, this application is fired through "msgrp2p.xml" file. What is the command for it window.external.channel..... Thanks we do not allow for that to be accessed within activities. If you had an activeX control you could do it there, but that is not allowed in the activities api ...Show All

• Olivier Sanzot general Messenger activity SDK question

  All: I've noticed that there is an event in the activity SDK that allows the IM message to be captured when it is received (Channel_OnIMReceived).  I am curious to know if there is a corresponding event that fires when a message is sent.  The reason I ask is because I would like my activity to pull the message text from the messenger chat window, manipulate it and then send a modified version of the message.  I realize that I can ...Show All

• Henry He 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

• Jackson Davis - MSFT New download link for Diarist (works with Spaces)

    At the very time I was releasing a version of my Pocket PC blogging application ("Diarist") with fixes (and some ease of use features) to work with the production version of MSN Spaces, my free ASP.NET hosting came to an end (December was not a good month for me). For anyone who's interested, I now have a new site up: www.kevdaly.co.nz . You can go directly to the download page for Diarist at: http://www.kevdaly.co.nz/Software/Bl ...Show All

• hfghgdhfghfghgd Building an Activity

  Hi, I would like to build a new MSN Messenger activity, now that the competition is over is it still possible to submit my application, and for how long will this be possible Is this the only place to advertise activities or are there other sites Thanks. You should use the worldsbestapp.com site. ...Show All

• ve_robot1 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 You might try uninst ...Show All

• Alejandro_Godot 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

• striker72s Sample: MSN AddIn - Text to Speech

  A very simple sample of a msn addin. It uses the Microsoft Speech API to read incoming messages for you. The addin needs to be strong named and added to the global assembly cach. Same goes for the COM wrapper class for sapi.dll Generate the COM wrapper object for sapi.dll. Instead of just adding a com reference to it use tlbimp.exe and generate it yourself using the .snk file you've used to sign the addin tlbimp.exe /keyfile:”c:\my path\keyfi ...Show All

• amruta6212 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 I am currently working together with Gwaam ...Show All

• Sven De Bont MSN Search Developer Site Error.

  I have been trying to access the msn search dev site all day to get an appid so that I can try out the api and I keep getting the same error: The operation failed. Please try again later. Has anyone else been having this problem Thanks, sn http://search.msn.com/developer/ Tried again this morning and is now working. I also get an error when tried that url. I wrote to MSN Search Manager in Spain but I didn't g ...Show All

• Goran _ 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

• PRSDeveloper I can send files but I can't receive them. Whats wrong please?

  I have my firewall disabled and still cannot receive files from my friend. But I can send him. Funny enough, I received files before 3 times. What is going on Please leave a suggestion. When I go to connection troubleshooter, its greyed out gmgj wrote: When I go to connection troubleshooter, its greyed out The same happens here! Kes, If you are running MSN Messenger 7.0 or later, go ...Show All

• Jamie MacLennan Please help me with VE_MapSearchControl.js

  I am not even sure where to ask this question. Is there a forum for Virtual Earth I am putting up a map inside of Microsoft Messenger. I am expected/required to include the Microsoft Search Controls. But I cannot get them to work. I think I did the proxies correctly at: http://linux.freerecruiting.com/Resumes/Maps/ads.ashx http://linux.freerecruiting.com/Resumes/Maps/search.ashx Here is the ads when passed its arguments, not even sure ...Show All

• edd.armitage PassportSiteID flag allowed?

  The rules dont say anything about this flag. So is it allowed to be set at true, meaning I can use emails and screennames in my app Danny, The PassportSiteID flag is not supported for contest apps. ...Show All

• Steve Pontello I can send files but I can't receive them. Whats wrong please?

  I have my firewall disabled and still cannot receive files from my friend. But I can send him. Funny enough, I received files before 3 times. What is going on Please leave a suggestion. gmgj wrote: When I go to connection troubleshooter, its greyed out The same happens here! Kes, If you are running MSN Messenger 7.0 or later, go to Tools/Options/Connection and see if any problems are repor ...Show All