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  • PhotoStack Gadget
    by Confucius
    3 Replies
    Last post by RealHeartMozart [msft]
      • I recently attempted to create a photostack mashup that takes my pictures from facebook and puts them together in the photostack program (I was inspired by Alpesh's spacesPhotoSlide) However the difference between mine and his was that i was also trying to install it as a gadget as well in windows VIsta Sidebar. This seemed to have had a major effect on the resolution, but on further investigation
  • The following message could not be delivered to all recipients
    by adorablefaith
    14 Replies
    Last post by 2Bob
      • "The following message could not be delivered to all recipients" I keep getting this error msg everytime i try talking to one of my contacts. It was all working fine until all of a sudden i cldnt communicate with them no more.. Also i'm having the same problem on both windows messenger & Windows live messenger.. can someone pls address this issue for me.
  • Resize a Popfly published gadget
    by Steven_C_Wong
    3 Replies
    Last post by AndyS
      • There should be a way through the UI to resize a Popfly Gadget. The PhotoSphere would make a great dynamic wallpaper (vs dreamscene) but its clipped when published as a gadget. Cheers! S. ps super stable alpha!
  • WLID Examples
    by  JD 
    3 Replies
    Last post by ?JD?
      • G'day, I would like to see more real working examples It still seems that the most used "home-programmer" application is Visual Basic 6 Is it possible to use VB6 for WLID SDK (even by calling an WinAPI) I know it isn't a .net application but is it possible Also... What about COM calls... Many existing programs still use com calls as a means to interact with other applications..
  • Another Custom Pushpin in 3D mode Question
    by Carl J
    2 Replies
    Last post by Carl J
      • Has anyone maaged to get custom pushpin images to be displayed in 3D mode In 2D mode, I'm able to display the custom pins, but in 3D mode, it uses the standard pushpins. I found the following thread, http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1089933&SiteID=1 and have appended the base URL (currently its http://localhost:2265/ for testing) to the image name. Ac
  • Animated history?
    by TB123
    7 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • Hi... I'm trying to animate an icon/pin so that it moves along a specified route path... is this possible Basically.. I have about 20 points on a map of places that I tracked myself with my GPS tracker. The points are at 5 minute intervals. At the moment, I use MWS to calculate the ROUTES between these multiple points and then draw a routeline to connect it all up nicely so that the
  • Developing Messenger bot
    by Digital Human
    0 Replies
    Last post by Digital Human
      • Hi there, i am develloping a messenger bot with success i must say. But, i use dotMSN SDK. A great tool but there is one thing i can't figure out. How can i send a message with emoticons. I tryed different thinks but they all are not working. Can somebody please help me out with this one Check www.msninfobot.nl for the address of my bot. Thanks in advance. Kind re
  • Mixing GMaps and VEmaps,issue in Firefox but ok in other broswers
    by Anonymous574775
    6 Replies
    Last post by Anonymous
      • Hi all, I am a fully working version of google maps at http://useamap.com. I have a test page at http://useamap.com/directions.html where I have taken a standard Google example(From its examples page) and included the Virtual Earth script into it also. All works fine, except in Firefox, where any time I click on the map, the point jumps to the other side of the map!!! Without including the Virtu
  • Rasterised ESRI data through Virtual Earth
    by Brad80
    1 Replies
    Last post by Brad80
      • Great Webcast - can you supply the URL for the City of Miami site discussed. Many thanks!
  • I still don't get it?
    by summit72
    12 Replies
    Last post by RobertoRaimondo
      • Sorry, I'm not a developer, so when you say ... "You simply add this": shape.SetCustomIcon("<img src='http://maps.live.com/i/bin/1.3.1204222815.33/pins/RedCircle" + (cnt+1) + ".gif' />"); I don't understand where or how I tried to use the example you attached, but the example uses an outline , which I do not use. When I tried to take parts of the s
  • Issues with 2 maps on a page and 3d mode
    by JeffK_
    3 Replies
    Last post by Gascho Rempel
      • grrr, bad bad issue, if i got 2 maps on one single page, and try to switch one of them to 3dmode, an exception occurs, because the api tries to access the element 'obliqueNotification.style' if i got 2 maps, this element exists twice, thus, obliqueNotification is an array of them instead the element itself. if only oninitmode could fire before the map mode changes, i could delete th
  • how to get the user click location
    by Ahmed Adly Ali
    16 Replies
    Last post by Ahmed Adly Ali
      • dear all i need to get the user click country, imean when the user click on a certain point on the map (a certain level of zoom i can assure) .. i ve tried the following: var map = null ; var latLong = null ; var zoomLevel = 1; function GetMap() { map = new VEMap( 'myMap' ); map.LoadMap( new VELatLong(1, -1), 1 , 'r' , false ); map.SetZoomLevel(zoo
  • Windows Messenger won't open...but it's running ???
    by shmiddy
    5 Replies
    Last post by shmiddy
      • So when i try to open windows live messenger, it shows as it is running in my "windows task manager", but nothing opens; no icon in the tool bar no windows open If i click it again, another msnmsgr.exe appears in my windows task manager. Every time i try to re-open it, another one starts, but nothing happens I've tried re-installing it, I have the latest version, I've tried restarting my
  • custom doesn't cleanup after switching between Hybrid and Road views
    by delphine
    5 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • I seems to have problem cleanup the custom map once I switched between Hybrid and Road views. The custom map layer works good when first call it up (in Road view). It's still good if I zoom-in or zoom-out right after callup. But if I switch to Hybrid view, then switch back to Road view. Then anytime I zoom-in or zoom-out, there seems to be a left-over custom layer staying around (a fixed size r
  • Local maps
    by Simon Hart
    8 Replies
    Last post by Duncan Garratt
      • I have a requirement to display a map using lat/long coordinates on an XP Embedded machine but not using the internet. Does anyone know of a library (similar to Microsoft's Mappont product) that works locally with no internet/network dependency -- Simon Hart http://simonrhart.blogspot.com
  • Displaying certain users with the contactscontrol?
    by _keisari
    5 Replies
    Last post by Danny Thorpe MSFT
      • 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 users contacts except bla@hotmail.com Hope it makes sense since it would be very usefull. /dennis :0)
  • SearchRequest.Location.Radius bug
    by Starbuck
    2 Replies
    Last post by Starbuck
      • When I set this Double value to 5.0 in C# it gets reset to 0 in the query and thus the queries always get returned with no items. If I change that to 5.01 or 4.99 or any other value, queries come back successfully.
  • Capture position and zoom level
    by dannyg_uk
    2 Replies
    Last post by Derek Chan
      • I would like a user to click a button and then capture the users current position and zoom level. Is this possible Thanks Danny
  • Blue screen
    by Bubbs
    3 Replies
    Last post by AndyS
      • I'm in Virtual Earth looking at my residence when my screen goes blue with tech info: OX8FBOEE9O, OXOOOOOOOO, OX8FBOEE9O, OXOOOOOOOO. How do I fix this Bubbs
  • Connection error In LIve Search API
    by Kanwar
    1 Replies
    Last post by Nate Buggia - MSFT
      • Hi I facing connection problem while accessing Live Search API in ASP.NET. Error is: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.HttpWebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request) at System.Web.Services.Pro
  • Executing functions via VB .NET
    by mhodder
    5 Replies
    Last post by Anonymous
      • Hi, I have a VB.NET application with an embedded browser page with a Java script page to load the VE stuff. Does anyone know if it is possible to send a message to the java script page to tell it to execute a particular function It might be delete all push pins or add a pushpin for instance. Thanks martin
  • RequestBIReport SoapException
    by SEMuser
    1 Replies
    Last post by Jeff Dillon - MSFT
      • Hi RequestBIReport is throwing a soap exception with error code -200074 for all accounts. username, password and devtoken are valid. < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ><soap:Envelope xmlns oap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchem
  • inserting exe and swf files
    by germaine
    2 Replies
    Last post by germaine
      • I just want to ask i have 2 nice programs 3d photoalbums from vicman net it can make exe files of a photogallery it gives very nice results and the other program is flash slide show maker from anvsoft it makes html and swf files is there a possibility to insert them in the webpages I make in popfly or can I make a link to them I am very new in making webpages and still have to le
  • setting start and end post codes
    by chrisuk2006
    6 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • i have trying to use Virtual map on my web site, athough it seems to work OK, i canot find a method/ script on here to allow me to enter my start and end Postcodes to generate a route. can only one suggest a forum topic or website for me to find this thanks in advance
  • Academic Search API
    by alexll
    1 Replies
    Last post by Nate Buggia - MSFT
      • Hi! I'm want to use the Live Search API in one of my applications, but not the "standard" search just the Academic search. Unfortunately I can¡¯t find any hints if it is possible or not and if it is, is there a sample how I can access all the metadata like Author, Abstract and so on ! Thanks a lot for you help! Cheers alexll