Contactscontrol, Messenger and Vista

Hey Danny,

Are there compatibility problems with the contactscontrol/activity window under Windows Vista?

I've incorporated the contactscontrol in an aspx page and it works fine in any browser (IE 7 and FF) but as soon as I launch it through Live Messenger's activity window I can't sign in. The "sign in" window pops up fine, but as soon as it closes nothing happens, it just sits there like I never clicked "sign in". It seems as if the "sign in" code doesn't pass through to the activity window.

I've tested this on Win XP with Live Messenger and there it seems to work so there are strong indicators that Vista, Live Messenger and the contactscontrol is not a good cocktail. (Also it doesn't seem to work on MSN messenger versions lower that Live)

Any thoughts, experience, solutions to this?

Thanks

/dennis :0)

[883 byte] By [keisari] at [2008-2-11]
# 1

Hi Dennis,

Hmm. I haven't tried using the contacts control in the context of a Messenger activity window on Vista. I'll get someone here to check it out. Thanks for asking!

-Danny

DannyThorpeMSFT at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Live Developer Forums,Windows Live Controls Development...
# 2
The activity's in WLM are pretty secured, you are not allowed to do much. I guess that in Vista more things are blocked, probably the javascript function calls to parent windows or something like that.

If you set the ActiveX property flag to True, does it work then?
JeroenBransen-J-Thread at 2007-9-5 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Live Developer Forums,Windows Live Controls Development...

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