Recent update: 2008-3-21
I got everything working with contacts control upto the last "send selected" click. Then it failed,I put a channel.htm dummy file on the host page directory, but couldn't figure out how to get contacts out of the control to receivedata method. Can someone here answer about the ...
Apologies if this is off topic or a newbie question. I am interested in getting a view of my live contacts from the Vista sidebar. The Contacts Control, while apparently not designed for this, seems to be awfully close. Can anyone point me to whether it would be possible to bridge the gap ...
Hi all, Just started playing around with the contacts control gadget - very cool. I am seeing one issue - I cannot get anything other than "name and e-mail" fields to be retrieved. I have changed the datadesired field to indicate the fields I need returned, but the only ones I can ...
I got everything working with contacts control upto the last "send selected" click. Then it failed,I put a channel.htm dummy file on the host page directory, but couldn't figure out how to get contacts out of the control to receivedata method. Can someone here answer about the ...
Hi , How can I get all my contacts info?. I try http://dev.live.com/mashups/trycontactscontrol/ . but when I select my account to export the data I only get Name email and passportId. How can I get all my info? Regards Tolo ...
Hi,I have a website where users can register with the system.To implement this I have use CreateUserWizard and Login control.After user login to the system he can place and orders.Every user must be registered with the system.After user place and order and login to the system again I want to ...
Signing in on some machine displays automation error. Internet security is set to the defualt level. Able to break into the debugger inside live contacts javascript code where error occurs: Microsoft.Live.LiveID._window=popup;}if(popup&&!popup.closed&&popup.focus){ ...
The Windows Live Chatter Development forum has been renamed as Windows Live Controls Development. We did this for two reasons: Most of the questions and discussions on this forums are related to the Contacts Control so the change reflects more accurately the topics discussed here. We have ...
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wibb1 at 2008-2-25
<span>Hi is it possible to use the gadget in an MSN activity window?</span> <span>Thanks </span>
Hi Thanks for a nice control. Very useful. Sometimes though I have noticed that the control stalls and only shows blank. Sometimes completely blank, sometimes just the contactlist is blank. Is there anyway to check if component is loaded? Perhaps a kind of isInitialized(). Thanks for the nice ...
Hi, I would like to use the list view to show only 'Available' messenger contacts. 1. Is there any way to retreive this subset of contacts? 2. Is there a way te sort the list (e.g. on name or availability in messenger)? Thanks alot!
Hi , How can I get all my contacts info?. I try http://dev.live.com/mashups/trycontactscontrol/ . but when I select my account to export the data I only get Name email and passportId. How can I get all my info? Regards Tolo ...
Hi,I have a website where users can register with the system.To implement this I have use CreateUserWizard and Login control.After user login to the system he can place and orders.Every user must be registered with the system.After user place and order and login to the system again I want to ...
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wibb1 at 2008-2-21
<span>Hi is it possible to use the gadget in an MSN activity window?</span> <span>Thanks </span>
Hi Thanks for a nice control. Very useful. Sometimes though I have noticed that the control stalls and only shows blank. Sometimes completely blank, sometimes just the contactlist is blank. Is there anyway to check if component is loaded? Perhaps a kind of isInitialized(). Thanks for the nice ...
Hi I'm getting the control to work nicely, but is there any way to also get the sender's Live ID? With this I mean the Live ID of the user who just signed into the gadget and is sending data across? Thanks Riaan London
Is there a way get back all your live contacts, if the get deleted by a misstake?
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Is there a way get back all your live contacts, if the get deleted by a misstake?
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wibb1 at 2008-2-15
<span>Hi is it possible to use the gadget in an MSN activity window?</span> <span>Thanks </span> </span>
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. ...
We've just rolled out an update to the Windows Live Contacts control, adding language support for German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese! That's on top of the English, French, and Japanese we hacked together by hand earlier. If my fingers are correct, that's 9 languages ...
Hello Friends, I want to design a new web site including Chat server and e-mail facilities,,, Can u give me design outline in .NET plateform..
Is there a way get back all your live contacts, if the get deleted by a misstake? </span>
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Weavor at 2008-2-14
Hello guys, and gals its another day another doller, I hope. Todays question is about web services. In my gandering around the MSDN forums I keep comming accross web services. These nifty little bouts of code allow you to access a function from a webpage that is not normaly available. Thats a ...
At the top of the <em>Windows Live Control </em>example it shows one of my contacts address and not mine. I think it is the first contact because the last name is Anderson. I use windows custom domains. Could that be a problem?
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Weavor at 2008-2-13
Hello guys, and gals its another day another doller, I hope. Todays question is about web services. In my gandering around the MSDN forums I keep comming accross web services. These nifty little bouts of code allow you to access a function from a webpage that is not normaly available. Thats a ...
We've just rolled out an update to the Windows Live Contacts control, adding language support for German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese! That's on top of the English, French, and Japanese we hacked together by hand earlier. If my fingers are correct, that's 9 languages ...
I saw the contacts control is available in french now, that's great!! Would there be any chance for a Dutch version? I'd like to see that, there are a lot of Dutch Messenger users so... I am even willing to translate it if you like ...
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. ...
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Weavor at 2008-2-10
Ok Im just wondering if you guys at Dev.live.com talk with each other. Here is my problem. I have downloaded and am working with every SDK from dev.live.com and to be honest about it I cant get them to work with each other. Currently I am trying to get the Live ID to sign into the Contacts ...
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yvolk at 2008-2-10
Hi, Danny!Please add two fields (attributes of Contact) to the Contacts Control: Birthday and Anniversary.I'm planning to use them in my Birthday Reminder application.These fields should be added:- to the "dataDesired" element- and to the "contacts" Argument of "ContactsControl.createContacts" ...
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yvolk at 2008-2-8
Hi, Danny!Please add two fields (attributes of Contact) to the Contacts Control: Birthday and Anniversary.I'm planning to use them in my Birthday Reminder application.These fields should be added:- to the "dataDesired" element- and to the "contacts" Argument of "ContactsControl.createContacts" ...
Is it possible to instead of pulling the entire contact list just to pull certain contacts from the contactscontrol?E.g. I know this user has bla@hotmail.com in his contact list so by feeding the contactscontrol with a string/array/xml with this address in would I be able to display all the ...
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wibb1 at 2008-2-7
<span>Hi is it possible to use the gadget in an MSN activity window?</span> <span>Thanks </span>
hi i am a complete newbie to all this stuff, i dnt really know anything about code and stuff but i managed to get the windows live contacts gadget up and running. However i find the standard button for adding contacts rather ugly. how can i have the button be an image instead (if theres one ...
I have been trying for ages for get images to show up in my RSS feed for IE7 but thats another story.Turns out <![CDATA[]]> is your friend an i guess IE had a look in those tags anyway and rendered them as HTML content. However i noticed a lovely effect on live.com where by live.com ...
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yvolk at 2008-2-7
In some threads of this forum, I've read words of Danny Thorpe (developer), describing his vision of the "Contact Control's" target audience, e.g. "...we're focused primarily on the browser web app as a dev platform for the contacts control is that it targets a much larger ...
Hi I'm getting the control to work nicely, but is there any way to also get the sender's Live ID? With this I mean the Live ID of the user who just signed into the gadget and is sending data across? Thanks Riaan London
<h4 style="font-weight:normal" class=BlogPostHeader>How it works? I meen is there any web services that helps retrieve groups and contacts? Is there way retrive this information from desktop application? </h4>
Great control guys, I think it's awesome. Would it be possible to host the control and relevant pop-up windows on a same page? Maybe with divs etc? Any such samples? Thanks Riaan London
Great control guys, I think it's awesome. Would it be possible to host the control and relevant pop-up windows on a same page? Maybe with divs etc? Any such samples? Thanks Riaan London
Hi thereI have been reading up a bit on website development and have been interested in finding out how it works when a site is interactive i.e. asking questions and providing answers to the questions. In particular, and as an example, if I write a simple engineering programme (in for instance ...
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yvolk at 2008-2-4
In some threads of this forum, I've read words of Danny Thorpe (developer), describing his vision of the "Contact Control's" target audience, e.g. "...we're focused primarily on the browser web app as a dev platform for the contacts control is that it targets a much larger ...
I saw the contacts control is available in french now, that's great!! Would there be any chance for a Dutch version? I'd like to see that, there are a lot of Dutch Messenger users so... I am even willing to translate it if you like ...
Is it possible to have, when signed in, all contacts selected?
I have been trying for ages for get images to show up in my RSS feed for IE7 but thats another story.Turns out <![CDATA[]]> is your friend an i guess IE had a look in those tags anyway and rendered them as HTML content. However i noticed a lovely effect on live.com where by live.com ...
<h4 style="font-weight:normal" class=BlogPostHeader>How it works? I meen is there any web services that helps retrieve groups and contacts? Is there way retrive this information from desktop application? </h4>
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yvolk at 2008-2-2
Hi, Danny!I want to use "Windows Live Contacts" service in my desktop application - birthday reminder, that is written on VB.NET ( http://yurivolkov.com/yvReminder/index_en.html). So I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to implement this, using your work (Control itself or its source ...
I'm doing Live Contacts Control intro from: http://dev.live.com/contactscontrol/v0.2/getstarted.aspxWhen I refresh the page I see the control and logo for a moment then it shows an error: "Error: Object doesn't support this action"How can I debug ...