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• Brave Belzebuth Welcome!

  Hello and welcome to the MSN Spaces Development forum. On Monday, December 12 2005, we announced the first in a series of APIs that will allow developers to build applications that interact with MSN Spaces programmatically.   This forum has been created to provide a place where developers can discuss the these APIs with members of the MSN Spaces team as well as other developers in the community. Welcome! -- Dare Obasanjo Program Manag ...Show All

• Shane MacDonald Robot Invaders: terrible SDKs, please allow others/self-written ?

  I think it's a great idea to have a contest about creating bots. Bots are growing very popular, and a contest like this is a great way to show off what messenger can do. The criteria are very acceptable too, especially integrating activities would be a lot of fun. I had some great bot ideas, and I was very very eager to work them out, but there was one major thing that spoilt it all: You are forced to use one of the three SDKs on the site to be ...Show All

• Hugo Baraúna 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

• Aaron Anderson 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

• TallMike No results with inurl: parameter

  Apparently there is a bug in the MSN search algorithms (and API) when performing searches using the inurl: parameter with a number. Example: site:www.cs.odu.edu inurl:~cs772 This results in no found records although the search site:www.cs.odu.edu cs772 results in numerous URLs in the form http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cs772/* The '~' doesn't appear to be the problem since the query: site:www.cs.odu ...Show All

• RG6 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

• Dmitriy Vasyura - MSFT Is it possible to do this?

  I want to catch incoming/outgoing messages before they are added to the "Chat Window" in an MSN conversation. After I catch the message I want to add in a url for matched text, sort of like the wikipedia function in Trillian. (It matches words if they link up to a Wikipedia article and makes them link there). It would be ideal if I can add a custom right click menu too. I'd appreciate any help by anyone to send me down this path in ...Show All

• Alan J. McFarlane Invasion of the Robots Contest for Windows Live Messenger

  It's here... an unstoppable force sweeping the globe the Invasion of the Robots! Microsoft is challenging developers worldwide to create conversational robots, or BOTs, for MSNR Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. The most original, useful robots collect $40,000 in total prizes . See http://www.robotinvaders.com/main/default.aspx . Questions about the contest, building Messenger applications with a BOT or Activity, what you can, should ...Show All

• venkydshow Image search?

  I'm not seeing a source option for performing an MSN image search.  Google and Yahoo both provide this, why not Microsoft Thanks. Seth, Thanks for the reply.  Can you give me any sort of ETA on when image search might be available Thanks again. Ray Hey Ray -- We're working to provide a broad variety of data via the MSN Search API.  Today we offer Web res ...Show All

• Kennyb28 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 Your suggestion is probably the easiest way to implement the display of results. The sample code in the MSN Search SDK uses 2 loops : one loops through the response, and then another loops through the results in each respon ...Show All

• Ramyar Jafarkhani Messenger Development APO

  Hello Folks I am willing to integrated an existing webbased system with MSN Messenger.I am willing to use MSN messenger for notification purpose. can any one guide me regarding development API Thanks Adnan James, I don't think this has much to do with Messenger technical support, does it It clearly is a developer's question.. You can have a look at the activity SDK in the messenger developer center . ...Show All

• Mog0 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

• BattleCattle MSN PROBLEM

  ive recently bought a brand new laptop and installed msn messenger ( from the msn site). When i go to sign in it really lags alot, and it never actually signs in... Sometimes i get a error message 80040111 and sometimes it just asks me to try again. Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling it hundreds of times not to mention deleting any addons or patches. Ive tried to update that DLL file aswell but still get the same message. Windows messenger ...Show All

• Larry K. Moore 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. When i invite a contact to veiw my webcam they say they cannot see it, they can answer the invatation bu ...Show All

• Jordi Valldaura Riqué 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