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• ashishbhatt12 Sample Timeouts

  The sample is timing out for me when I run a simple search.  Any ideas   I've tried passing proxy server info and adding a custom GetWebRequest with no keepalives. System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed-out at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.HttpWebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request)at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClie ...Show All

• TOM A. 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

• Ruben S Salazar escaped XML string ---> XML?

  Hi all, I've got some search query returning from an httprequest and when I parse out the responseXML, it seems to be a single <string> tag surrounding a bunch of escaped XML. I need well-formed XML tags. Does anyone know of a good method for doing this I was able to use RegEx to run through the content and parse back into well-formed xml... for those interested. ...Show All

• another_pancho 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

• madhukeswar Push pin pop up

  The API shows how to hook the mouse over of a push pin. It shows an alert with the x, y of where your mouse is. Unfourtunatly this isn't what I want to do. http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/SDK/HTML/P_Namespace_VEPushpin_ShowDetailOnMouseOver.htm What I want is the ability to use the normal pop up, but use an AJAX call to go get the data that is needed for the popup. Anyone have an example of how to do this Thanks Wayne ...Show All

• phore Messenger API call function?

  I'm not really familiar with the messenger API, but is it possible to : - develope an application that can triggers the messenger API to make voice or video calls (using the messenger's native function) If so, which document describes how this is done -JM I am not faimilar with this, but several days ago I've just bumped into the following document. Real-time Communication (RTC) Client It's not direc ...Show All

• wixy MSN Spaces restrictions.

  There are many restriction on MSN Spaces which is good and bad. I want MSN Spaces to put options that will enable users to switch between User-Friendly mode and an Advanced mode. Put more than one custom HTML module(s) A small storage for songs. I love the msn picture upload tool. It reduces the size with minimal loss of quality. Make something like that for songs and those songs can get added to the music list. Allow users to put in Advert ...Show All

• brbrb MSN Best App Competition Prizes?

  Hello winners of the MSN Best App competition. Being one of the winners myself, I was wondering whether anyone has received anything (documents, forms, PRIZES) after they sent their affidavit of eligibility back to Microsoft I tried contacting Jennifer Johnson one month ago and she said that they are still in the process of sending out additional forms for us to fill out. She said that they are planning on having all of them sent out by the e ...Show All

• AbbottF Animations in Messenger 8.0 BETA

  Hi everyone! 1. Thanks BETA team for adding me onto (once again) another great BETA. This and the other 9 BETA's that I'm on will certainly keep me busy testing... 2. I wanted to ask tho... Is it possible to have a animated picture in the Display Pictures area (The 96x96 pixel area) and how would I do this... I would want to accomplish this thru Messenger API's calling on the picture to display and NOT thru an external program, i ...Show All

• Maria 8.0 beta crashes

  I just installed 8.0 beta. all fine but it crashes the second I try to type an IM. ("has experienced dificulty and has to close") Also Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 frequently closes ("has experienced dificulty and has to close") right in the middle of an activity. Reports are sent but nothing ever comes of them. Are you running a pre-release version of IE7 If so, please install the latest prerel ...Show All

• amcclendon How To???

  Hello... i’m new in dev and i want to know how to create an app to send a message to my online contacts... i’m using VS2005 (c#). Tks. Paulo You should consider using the Alerts service to notify a set of contacts (people that have opted into receiving the notifications), which based on their presence and routing rules would be via IM, e-mail or mobile.  You publish content to the system via a RSS feed. ...Show All

• abelli5 Messenger API

  Are there code samples showing how to use Messenger API The API itself http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/winmessenger/winmessenger/overview/devtest.asp  provides detailed instructions on how to do certain tasks, but a sample (even a simple one) would be a great help. Could someone point me to an article, please Thank you. Yes please a sample app or starter would be great! ...Show All

• invalid Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup

  It seems a public Windows Live Messenger newsgroup has been set up: URL: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger Subscribe with your default newsreader: click here I just set up an online page where you can read the MSN Messenger newsgroups: http://www.messenger-news.com/groups/ Update: it seems you can also view it online at Microsoft.com ! The newsgroups mentioned above are targeted at end user customers of MSN and Windows ...Show All

• William W Messenger eats all the space on my system root drive!

  When messenger is open it takes all my free space on my c:\ drive. It creates a file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\WMI\trace.txt that is approx 6.5GB This cannot be deleted as it is being used somewhere. Even if Messenger is closed down. I cannot even uninstall it without any space on the system root drive! Please Help! Thanks Very much. That helped a great deal you proball ...Show All

• Gemstones A question about APIs

  I am writing a programme for a wireless earphone to make users be able to communicate with others through the MSN messenger.However,i don't know how msn send messages ,which annouce the applications the event of Audio chatting,to other applications with its APIs,and i don't want to use the HOOK.so anybody knows it You should have a look at the Messenger developer center http://msdn.microsoft.com/live/msnmessenger/ The activity SDK ...Show All