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• Daniel.Alvarez Can I use the SAM to authenticate my users ??

  We currently market a client server system which uses a text based dialogue over TCPIP. It authenticates itself using a locally implemented form of CHAP, to avoid passing the password over the network.  This obviously requires that the our server maintains an account database holding login IDs and hashed passwords. What we would like to be able to do away with our local database and authenticate our client login details against the SAM dat ...Show All

• Wes Dyer Help! My app still wont start!!!

  I've created the app Game of the Generals and up until now, I'm still not able to launch it. I've tried different machines in different locations but still no success . I keep on getting the message: MSN Messenger cannot start this program. Please try again later. Can someone please help me!!! My game also has an odd behavior when two new players choose to check my app: one of them gets that same error. H ...Show All

• Todd Malone Commercial Control - printing problems / v2?

  Hello, Is it possible to maintain the pushpins on the commercial control upon printing I've experimented with z-index but that didn't help. Has anyone been able to add a pushpin to the commercial control and have it show up when you print it Also, are there any updates on a new v2 version of the commercial control Thanks, Jeff ...Show All

• Janaka Submit your MSN Messenger Activity API Feature Requests!

  First of all, thank you for downloading the MSN Messenger Activity API!  In the MSN Messenger Product Group we are constantly looking at ways to increase customer satisfaction within our products.  In this case, it's YOU, the developers that we aim to please.  Now that you've seen the SDK and hopefully have submitted an application to the contest, please post your feature requests for the next version of the API. Thanks! ...Show All

• rmasonh2006 Bot curiosity

  Is it possible to write a bot like the imapps bot using the activity sdk If so are their any pointers If not what API should be used to write a MSN Messenger chat transcript bot yes it is possible that is y they said add that bot because thats a example of what you can do with the SDK. Unfortunality (well in my experiences) ActiveX and SendIM, and RecieveIM must be enabled and im pretty sure that your not alou ...Show All

• matrixo Messenger Add-In SDK Where??

  Hi All, Does anyone actually know where to download the Messenger Add-In SDK from. All the links actually just end up at the documentation Rick From Katie Blanch's blog: To get a build of Messenger that supports add-ins, go here: http://www.ideas.live.com/programPage.aspx versionId=0eccd94b-eb48-497c-8e60-c6313f7ebb73 Then you'll need to either install the SDK (coming soon), or set the following ...Show All

• Josh D Edit Issues

  I'm having some issues with my editPost implementation. The first is that each time I edit a post the dateCreated moves back 5 hours. I am at GMT -5 which leads me to believe that the adjustment is being applied somewhere but I'm not doing it myself so I'm not certain as to where it is happening. I'm assigning the dateCreated value of the post I get from getPost to the dateCreated value of the post I'm assigning via the editPost. Along the wa ...Show All

• Modem56k Check out the Windows Live Messenger Application Gadget

  Be one of the first to try out the new Windows Live Messenger gadget on Live.com! The gadget is so new, it's not in the application catalog yet. But you can load it using this URL. http://www.live.com/gadgets/MSNAppCatalog/MSNAppCatalog.xml The gadget puts an auto-updating window on your Live.com page that constantly updates to show a list of all the Bots and Activities available for Windows Live and MSN Messenger. You must be runnin ...Show All

• jonsofield Missing Feature for testing Activities in Build 0689

  I installed the new Build 0689 of WL Messenger and found that the ability to test P4 Activities/Games using msgrp2p.xml has been removed, or at the least the menu item no longer shows up under the Actions menu. For now I've had to revert back to using an older version of Messenger. Is there a new testing scheme in place now, or was this simply forgotten This has been solved. It appears that the latest ...Show All

• Kirangazz 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

• MarkRobinson No Message History Available

  Hi Folks, I am having a problem with the storage of my Message History. I've enabled the Message History in my MSN Messenger but when I try to view the message history of a contact i am getting an empty document that usually display the message history. When I searched my machine I got the message history in the form of XML but when i tried to open it using some browser it shows nothing but blank page. I am using MSN Messenger Version 7.0 (Bu ...Show All

• Dan7el Send IM from Flash in JS

  Is there any way to launch the MSN IM send IM window (much like EnterIM is described to do in the API) without having an entire application   I'm just trying to open an IM window and add a default message.  This is possible with AOL IM by aim:goim message= is there something similar with the MSN API Thanks, Erin Not really; you can open a conversation with a contact using msnim:chat contact=whatever@ ...Show All

• devgrp ms PROJECT Professional 2003

  need help installing add'l licenses on project server This forum is for discussions related to Windows Live development. For questions related to Project, check the Microsoft Project website: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857951033.aspx ofcresset=1 or newsgroups http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.project&lang=en&cr=US . ...Show All

• coloso Bot curiosity

  Is it possible to write a bot like the imapps bot using the activity sdk If so are their any pointers If not what API should be used to write a MSN Messenger chat transcript bot yes it is possible that is y they said add that bot because thats a example of what you can do with the SDK. Unfortunality (well in my experiences) ActiveX and SendIM, and RecieveIM must be enabled and im pretty sure that your not alou ...Show All

• Luuk Contest Participant Document

         Hi!!!        I was wondering if it is possible for all participants of “The World’s Best App” contest to have a document that acknowledges that we participated in this event, even if they (or we) did not win one of the prizes.   You know, just a memento or something that we can brag about with, say, our grandchildren or Human Resource Head Hunters. Ok, thank ...Show All