Recent update: 2008-3-21
I need someone with msn messenger who I can chat with to test my applications. I will be happy to give you feedback on your applications in exchange. It is either that, or buy a second computer for my office. Much better to be sociable. Chris
I am trying to build an application that starts with a single user, then after a while a second user is invited to join in. I am not able to start in single user mode. Any advice as to what I should do? I think I have the min users variable set correctly to 1, but when I fire up start an ...
Would you like early access to the Windows Live Messenger Beta?Starting today, November 8th and running thru 9:00am PST on Monday, November 14thThe first 5 people to submit Activity Apps to the Worlds Best App contest and successfully pass compliance checking will receive an immediate ...
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Juzzi at 2008-3-3
At http://worldsbestapp.com/Rules.aspx I read about Cross-Category prizes. I thought there were only 2 categories: one for games and one for non game entries. What's this Cross-Category stuff exactly about? I suppose it's a third category, but what applications qualify for this category?
Hello,I would like the possibility for visitors of my website to log in and check they're MSN contactlist. I have looked everywhere for a tutorial or scripts that are alike, bud haven't found nothing. Does somewone know if it is possible? Maybee you can point me in the right direction?Thanks ...
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 ...
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Calo at 2008-2-27
Hi at all,I hope this is the correct forum :-)Hi I got problems (scripterror) when I try to run Memory Game with numbers or tankwars http://cyberride.de/tankerror/1.jpg http://cyberride.de/tankerror/2.jpg http://cyberride.de/tankerror/3.jpg http://cyberride.de/tankerror/4.jpgTranslation: ...
Would you like early access to the Windows Live Messenger Beta?Starting today, November 8th and running thru 9:00am PST on Monday, November 14thThe first 5 people to submit Activity Apps to the Worlds Best App contest and successfully pass compliance checking will receive an immediate ...
Hi,I didn't want to send out xml files, bugger my friends to play, or do polygamy, so I decided to create a Sandbox for multiplayer testing :)Currently it supports almost everything, except filetransfer, and the _NewEnum method of Users (how does it work anyway?)To test your app in the sandbox ...
Would you like early access to the Windows Live Messenger Beta?Starting today, November 8th and running thru 9:00am PST on Monday, November 14thThe first 5 people to submit Activity Apps to the Worlds Best App contest and successfully pass compliance checking will receive an immediate ...
I've found several references to it as part of the submission process, but I can't find it. A copy of the Support team's Compliance Checklist, which details all compliance items that you must complete before the MSN Support team will consider adding your application to the Activities Menu. ...
Is it possoble for someone to add a description to "COM301 VE Final Demo"?I launched it to see, it seems to show both users the same map.Does it do anything else? ...
Hi, I'm wondering how to approach having a game that can be started with one player, but then hav annother player join. If it is in the (chm) help file, can you tell me how to find it there ;)
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jiao at 2008-2-21
Hi Guys: Is it possible to add a default emotion in MSN programming, say, drag a "My emotion" to "Default emotion"?
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n0n4m3 at 2008-2-20
Hello,I'm creating a MSN plugin using MSN Messenger API and MsgPlus API in C# and there are two things that frustrating me: debug and plugin reload.Is there a way to reload a plugin in C#? Although I can reload it making a call to msgplus like this:int msg = ...
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Calo at 2008-2-19
Hi at all,I hope this is the correct forum :-)Hi I got problems (scripterror) when I try to run Memory Game with numbers or tankwars http://cyberride.de/tankerror/1.jpg http://cyberride.de/tankerror/2.jpg http://cyberride.de/tankerror/3.jpg http://cyberride.de/tankerror/4.jpgTranslation: ...
Ok, it's been over a week since we've submitted our apps (you mentioned that there were 11 entered in the 5-day contest) and I still haven't even heard back on the status of my app. Is it in testing? Is it about to be posted?The first 5 have been posted and are getting a good headstart on ...
Today, Microsoft is announcing Windows Live. As part of the announcement, MSN Messenger is becoming Windows Live Messenger.Check out the new MSN Space for the Windows Live Messenger team to learn more... -Scott ...
Hello there, (to everyone). I wanted to ask everybody opinion about these problem i facing. First, there is no question and solution on the help section of msn messenger. Hence, my msn messenger cannot send file, i mean transfer file to my buddy. Is all my friends i cannot transfer any file. ( ...
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.
If we update the look and feel or description of our app after the initial submission, how can we get the thumbnail or description updated in the gallery?
Hi, I have gone through some of the posts in forum and come to know about some of the features of MSN activity SDK. But still I have few questions. Here are they:1. Although some posts make it clear that we can use server side scripting (ASP.Net) for the webpage in MSN Activity app. But can we ...
Ok, here they are; the Worlds Best App Bonus Challenge winners!Cards Exchange - Aleksei VassiljevTankwars - Frans-Willem HardijzerChingo - Jeremy MorelandT4IM - Kotaro NakayamaHangman - Ramy El-DardiryCongratulations to the winners! You will receive your Amazon gift certificates shortly from ...
We currently market a client server system which uses a text based dialogue over TCPIP. It authenticates itself using a locally implemented form of CHAP, to avoid passing the password over the network. This obviously requires that the our server maintains an account database holding login IDs ...
Last week, I promised that I'd post the list of winners today for the Bonus Challenge. Well, we got so many apps, it took a bit longer than I had expected to review them all and verify the winners.In total we received 11 applications for the Bonus Challenge. The apps were still being reviewed ...
Hi,I read that Microsoft has acquired a company named Messagecast that let send "alerts" to MSN Messenger user. I know that it's possible to send free alerts with the tools for bloggers, but I would like to know how to use a commercial version for other business applications (does it exists in ...
After testing on various computers and not finding any bugs, I submitted my application. I recieved a response saying that the application was just "sitting there" on a particular screen and not advancing. The person who contacted me refuses to give any detail and won't even tell me if both ...
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ravv at 2008-2-13
Not 100% sure what it´s called in english version but you know, the "tagline" that doubles as "now playing". (i wanna use both "now playing" and "tagline") I´ve tried looking trough APIs but sofar no luck. Anyone have any idea on how to do it?
Hello,I would like the possibility for visitors of my website to log in and check they're MSN contactlist. I have looked everywhere for a tutorial or scripts that are alike, bud haven't found nothing. Does somewone know if it is possible? Maybee you can point me in the right direction?Thanks ...
Hello,I need to build a web site where I can check wich MSN Messenger user are connected. I would like to know if you plan to add (in a short time frame) a Web Presence solution to Messenger like the AIM presence. I would like also to know if it's possible to develope this functionality using ...
I stayed up at least until 3:00 this morning to make mine presentable. I know at least one other person has submitted and with the two already up that makes 4.
I have read the e-mail about Bonus Challenge at 18:00. Decided to participate - and to make small, but useful (I hope ) app. At 24:00 I have completed the work. During this 6 hours I had time to drive from work to home, to have dinner, to read the last news, and of course to write code and ...
Just to be 100% sure, are you allowed to submit multiple entries? Because I allready have a working application, but I am working on a better (and differend) one too (and will submit that one if you are only allowed to submit one entry).
Hi,I just downloaded the new activity SDK and i would like to try to createsome unique application.In general i want to let user select several contacts from the contact list,Than i need access to the email of the selected contacts.and finally i need to send them a message.Is there a way to ...
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jiao at 2008-2-7
Hi! Does anyone know how to make a customized MSN emotion, say, covert an icon to an emotion? Thanks.
On Thursday, Oct 20 at 10:00am PST - Members of the MSN Messenger Team will hold a Live Meeting to talk about the Activity API and the Worlds Best App contest.The LiveMeeting link will be posted later this evening at http://www.worldsbestapp.com/bonus.aspx the Activity API contest site.This is ...
Hello all,first i apologize for this off-topic, but i've not been able to find a more proper forum...There seem to be methods to, say, add a contact to the messenger via script from a web page. I've found few samples around, but have not been able to find a reference for it.Might anyone ...
Is there any way to launch the MSN IM send IM window (much like EnterIM is described to do in the API) without having an entire application? I'm just trying to open an IM window and add a default message. This is possible with AOL IM by aim:goim?message= is there something similar with the MSN ...
Is it possible? I tried changing MaxUsers in msgrp2p.xml but then my app won't even load
Hello You may know there are some countries that do filter the internet to shut down oppisit voices . I have started to plan for an anti-filter solution and I thought using MSN messenger can be a good choice as evrybody uses it. Principals of the transaction are very sipmle, basicaly it has to ...
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maroy at 2008-2-5
Please help with the simplest thing: I copied the SDK's msgrp2p.xml file into the msn messenger directory, closed and re-launched messenger (7.0) - and: no new entry was visible in Activities/Games. Thanks!
All:I've noticed that there is an event in the activity SDK that allows the IM message to be captured when it is received (Channel_OnIMReceived). I am curious to know if there is a corresponding event that fires when a message is sent. The reason I ask is because I would like my activity to ...
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 ...
Hi all, i'd like to try to develop plug-ins for msn messenger that like sth happened when i play a song within Microsoft Windows Media Player. Does MS provide some APIs or SDKs for doing this?
Hello Everyone,I'm at witts ending trying to figure out how to do this in my javascript and/or vbscript. I was told in my previous post "Issue with SendFile...." that i cannot use the ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") because it doesn't return the right type of object. I need to ...
The rules dont say anything about this flag. So is it allowed to be set at true, meaning I can use emails and screennames in my app?
There is a new Activity in MSN Messenger - "Virtual Earth Shared Map". I have downloaded it and tried to run in test mode. But it did not run properly: address search in map is not working. Probably, application can't have permissions to access outer server to get data. Changes in XML setting ...
Can the Activity use cookies?
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Xtian at 2008-2-2
Hi, I am having some problems with my new system, XP Media, dealing with the mesenger that comes packaged and msn 7.0 I can not seem to get the packaged version to stop loading. I cant even find it to turn it off. I have to manually turn on 7.0, which does not bother me, but it takes longer ...
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pyw at 2008-2-2
sample in SDK 1.copy msgrp2p.xml to C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger 2.copy messengeractivitysdk\sample to IIS wwwroot(IIS started). 3.run MSN Messenger,Click Activity button 4.I can not see "Tic Tac Toe" in menu why? (thank u)