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• Jason Matkowsky Problems with Messenger Beta 8.0 - connection

  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. Even more problems now. I decided to try & re-install 7.5, so uninstalled 8.0 & re-installed 7.5 ...Show All

• kline Messenger Live Beta 8.0 Frozen

  Please read this post, do not close it refering myself and others to go to http://ideas.live.com , there are no answers there. There have been a huge increase in requests for help about 8.0 and why the product freezes up at sign-in. There is a problem, please advise as to what action to take or an actual "Knowledge Database Number" to asist with the fix as there doesn't seem to be any info. I have come across 200 requests ...Show All

• toddwick 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

• hxu64 Sending an IP message?

  Is there a way using MSN Messenger or any other program that comes with Windows Xp to send a message to a known IP address   There is no known name or anything like that just the IP address.  I've looked around for software and notice it cost some money to use.  MSN Messenger does not provide any way to do what you are asking.  Messenger can only communicate with another instance of the Mes ...Show All

• Tief Control IM without Activity Center

  Hi everyone, I got the following scenario at my company, we have several costumers that make orders online and we'd like to inform them via IM when their package is avaliable. I've read the post about the bot licensing, my question is, how can I interact with msn from our current application (developed in-house) Let's say that when a package arrives it is added in the application and it can generate a message to the client, now we're just doing ...Show All

• Vita For Future Contests

  If there are going to be future contests like this (and there should, as they rock!), please consider the following remarks/suggestions :) - Teams: Some people like to work in teams, and this usually gets quite nice results too. However, with the current prize set-up, it's rather difficult to work in teams because who gets the prize I suggest you either give out money (:P) or split it up in multiple prizes per app (have like something slightly b ...Show All

• Randomize Clarification

  So if i'm right, Microsoft is releasing MSN Messenger Activity API's for the protocol Good, in a way, but will Microsoft change they're licence to allow us to create applications (such as MSN Messenger Robots and 3rd Party MSN Messenger Clients) that will connect to the .NET Messenger Network , because if not, then this is really just for refrence....   Pepper wrote: True, but it's probably just e ...Show All

• Donal Retrieve Contact List

  is there any msn messenger web service which can retrieve my contact list i mean, sending my user and pwd, can i get my contact list to be displayed in my page thanks in advance Rul, This is not currently possible. -Scott ...Show All

• Oliver Messenger Live Call in Canada

  Does anyone know when Live Call will be available in Canada I have been waiting for Messenger to have a call-out feature for a long time now and finally it arrives except it's not available in Canada!! These forums are for development questions only. Questions regarding the availability of consumer level features should be directed to consumer focused groups. ...Show All

• Miguel Angel Gracia Visual Studio Only?

  Is Visual Studio .NET 2003 or above going to be a requirement for MSN Search API developers   I know it's early yet, however that's the only SDK I see and there's no information indicating anything else will be available. I ask because some of us have been developing API's (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, etc, etc) for a long time now.  You're going to be missing out on an awful lot of really good developers if you're going to have the r ...Show All

• Victor Lobanov My Activity is not in the Activity List

  I created the xml file. I saved it under C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\ As file name: MSGRP2P.xmlMSGRP2P.xml I stopped the process and restarted it, but my activity is not available. I wonder if min user 1 and max user 2 causes a problem. Any ideas anyone Regards Chris Hi Chris, Your entry will not appear in the Activity list.  It should appear under the "Actions" menu in the conve ...Show All

• BillFugina Security Concerns Regarding 8.0 Beta

  Well like google desktop we have started to clamp down on these, alas looks like 8.0 is following a similar trend. Would like to get this blocked throgh group policies, does anyone know if MS has a ADM template for this yet Any assistance here would be appreciated... Please refer to How to get Messenger Technical Support http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=368260&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Frederic Enesys always error in submitting xml to contest

  >When i submit my xml file i keep on getting errors (i use the standard xml file). at:http://www.worldsbestapp.com/submitentry.aspx Your XML file does not meet our submission standards. The following error occured: The element 'Entry' has invalid child element 'PassportSiteID'. Expected 'EnableIP'. An error occurred at , (21, 4). >deleting PassportSiteID. Your XML file does not meet our submission standards. The following error occured: ...Show All

• WendellB I am not able to sign in on MSN messenger Please help anyone!

    Recently i have been having porbelms with signing in on MSN, i think it is due to me agreeing to download the latest MSN. From this moment i am not able to sign in. I clicked on troubleshoot (80048883) and it showed 'Your gateway appears to be offline' which i dont know what it means. Then i went on on the Tools menu, click Options , and then click Connection, to check my connection and it showed 'You are currently NOT connected t ...Show All

• NielO Program to make Development Quicker

  I've made this app that will make your development quicker. It will close msn messenger, copy the 'msgrp2p.xml' to the MSN Messenger directory (which is specified in 'msndir.txt'), then start msn messenger up again. Its made so you dont need to do it manually. You can download it from here: http://msn.balupton.nghosting.org/msnmsngr_quickdev_net2.zip - .NET Framework v2.0 BETA 2 Version http://msn.balupton.nghosting.org/msnmsngr_quickdev_net1.zi ...Show All