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  • Who will be the first to build a Wikipedia block?
    by Strayworks
    7 Replies
    Last post by Waldyrious
      • I would love to have a block that retrieves the first few paragrahs about any seachable subject and creates an output I have tried reading how to build blocks but I got lost.
  • How to send a WLM message from an external application
    by furrbie
    1 Replies
    Last post by David_ES
      • Hi, I would like to send a WLM message to a contact using an external application. The DotMSN library allows for creating an application that can login to the server and then send a message. However, what I would like to do is to send a message using an existing WLM connection to the server (i.e. skip the login). In other words, if the user has already used the WLM client to login to the server,
  • How to determine the area of a polygon in VE5
    by amlan1982
    4 Replies
    Last post by Duncan Garratt
      • How to determine the area of a polygon in VE5
  • OnTextReceived Event?
    by alejoar
    0 Replies
    Last post by alejoar
      • How I'm supposed to know when a new message has been recived if this event does not work How is it done Thanks.
  • Random Errors - 4/1/2007
    by Port of Dreams
    4 Replies
    Last post by Ludo-R
      • I'm getting random errors when pulling KeywordPerformance reports today. Sometimes the exception is "Undefined Error", while other times it's "Authorization Issue". It's happening completely randomly as I loop through the different accounts, happening on different accounts each time. I know the code works as I use it every day, so is there an issue with the API currently
  • Can't access birds eye view
    by Anonymous582670
    4 Replies
    Last post by Anonymous
      • I have a feeling this might not be the right place to ask this question, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else... I am trying to see the bird's eye view imagery of New York City. Normally, I have been able to just zoom in on the city and click the bird's eye view button. On my home computers, however, the bird's eye view button is always greyed out, regardless of what city
  • "Choose a digital certificate" windows popping up
    by SergeiGolubev
    10 Replies
    Last post by SHUVO
      • My gadget uses RPS authentication via HTTPS protocol to get contacts from Live Contacts address book. The problem is that if to open the gadget HTML file by itself (not from the sidebar) the popup window appears saying: "Choose a digital certificate. The website you want to view requests identification. Please choose a certificate.". And this requires pressing OK or Cancel buttons
  • Control position of pushpin hover popup
    by MatBeard
    7 Replies
    Last post by Derrick
      • If the <div> that contains a map is positioned relatively, rather than absolutely, the popups that are displayed when you hover over a route point are out of position. How can you adjust the positioning of these popups so they appear next to the actual pushpins, and not, as in my case, completely off screen. Thanks
  • vista & messenger
    by JDMaddict
    1 Replies
    Last post by thickmadam
      • i don't think it's the Acer computers. from what I've read in forums all over, it's a problem with Vista. the "solution" that most people are getting is to uninstall the version of messenger you have and install version 8.0, not 8.1 the beta version. i haven't tried this, yet, but i KNOW the beta version throws an error code. it sucks. you can find 8.0 here. http://www.microsof
  • SetCustomIcon and InfoBox in 3D Mode
    by Ivus560753
    7 Replies
    Last post by Ivus
      • Hello everyone I'm trying to display a GPS track along with some images using V5. In 2D mode all works fine, CustomIcons and InfoBox are correctly added. But when I switch to 3D mode the icons assume the default pushpin icon and the InfoBox is opened empty. Try this at: http://80.22.205.83/easynet/vetracks.asp switch from 2D to 3D and you will see the effect described. To make the InfoBox wider I
  • Block Request - Emailer
    by jvzuck
    1 Replies
    Last post by Aaron Brethorst MSFT
      • Thinking in terms of frequent website functionality, one is feedback, contacts, forms, alerts, etc. It would be great to have a block which can troll the parameters of another block (say a user input block for example) and email the contents to a prescribed email address.
  • Block Description Information
    by Cyonix
    2 Replies
    Last post by AndyS
      • Hi, Where do i find information on how to form my block description Will the following work < object name = " EveCharacter " > < field name = " currentSkill " type = " custom " object = " EveCurrentSkill " isArray = " false " /> </ object > < object name = " EveCurrentSkill &quo
  • How do I localize or translate Windows Live Writer?
    by deerchao
    11 Replies
    Last post by Joe Cheng
      • If Word 2007 would upload pictures for Community Server, I'll not be asking this. But since it don't, So, my only choice is WLW. How can I translate it's UI into Chinese Thanks.
  • Control position of pushpin hover popup
    by MatBeard
    7 Replies
    Last post by Derrick
      • If the <div> that contains a map is positioned relatively, rather than absolutely, the popups that are displayed when you hover over a route point are out of position. How can you adjust the positioning of these popups so they appear next to the actual pushpins, and not, as in my case, completely off screen. Thanks
  • VE6 Bugs
    by JeffK_
    9 Replies
    Last post by CharlesD
      • Looks like the new VE6 Api has brought you some nice new bugs. I found the following ones: 1. Javascript exceptions in 3d mode when using Birdseye view 2. Custom Tile Layers are not displayed in 3d 3. maps.live collections cant be displayed 4. Infoboxes sometimes appear at the wrong position
  • Maintaining state
    by David Martos
    7 Replies
    Last post by Josh Brown - MSFT
      • Hi, I need to automatically sign in a user into the system the second time he enters my application. I've tried to do that by using cookies as follows: if (Page.Request.Cookies[ "token" ] != null ) { NameValueCollection collection = new NameValueCollection (); collection.Add( "stoken" , Page.Request.Cookies[ "token" ].Value); coll
  • Quick Intro to Using the Windows Live ID SDK
    by Sc&amp;#248;tt
    4 Replies
    Last post by Scott
      • I have written a quick "How To" on quickly adding Live ID authentication to your application. I know some people in here are more than able to do this, but just in case anyone who needed a quickstart, then my guide can be found here http://liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2007/03/22/writing-a-quick-application-that-uses-windows-live-id.aspx
  • 3D Tour in SDK?
    by TB123
    4 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • Has anyone figured out how to utilise the 3D Tour function from the SDK yet Or is this not possible with the current release
  • finding location based on latitude and longitude
    by &amp;#91;Philip&amp;#9
    4 Replies
    Last post by [Philip]
      • Hello there, I want to be able to find location knowing its latitude and longitude. I tried using VEMap.Find but I can't pass the VEPlace object for the where parameter. SDK documentation states that the where parameter can indeed accept a VEPlace object but I haven't had any luck doing this. Also in my particular siutation the only piece of data I have is latitude and longitude of the location of
  • customInfoBox placement has changed (v5 code)
    by barnettr
    5 Replies
    Last post by Stephen Stchur
      • I have been using the custom CSS for the rendering of the infoboxs on my site application. Everything was perfect. The work has been moved over to the beta testing site, which is considered to be the same environment as production. Let me say that our group does not own the header, footer, or the body tag itself (eg. cannot use onload="getMap"). The problem is that now the Infob
  • Font size does not preserve
    by lifeisadash
    7 Replies
    Last post by mindflux
      • Running Vista Enterprise. Font size of chat message does not seemed to persist when changed via either chat window or under Tools->Options->Messages->Change Font. Thoughts Thank You.
  • Explorer is a great idea
    by R1E
    5 Replies
    Last post by Steven Wilssens MSFT
      • I am glad this feature is included in popfly.
  • Shape editing revisited
    by csman
    2 Replies
    Last post by csman
      • Hi, I'm new to VE development, so I wanted to confirm a few points. For my app, I need the following: user-editable shapes, scratch pad functionality fetching the shapes' long+lat and storing them in my database checking if a point is within this custom shape Is this true that none of this is currently available in the SDK and has to be implemented independently Are there any plans
  • windowslive id and facebook authentication
    by panis
    2 Replies
    Last post by Angus Logan (Windows Live)
      • I just noticed that the facebook authentication url for third-party sites is similar to the windows live id sign in url link. That together with facebook's recently announced partnership with microsoft - is there any sign that we may also be able to integrate into facebook's services through windows live id
  • New Article - Clustering georss feed on Virtual Earth 5
    by Bunty120
    1 Replies
    Last post by bentonb
      • Hello, I am doing a project where we are converting .shp file to .xml and displaying it on the VE map (Version 5). Can you tell me briefly or send me some coding for how to implement clustering of Georss feeds i.e.the XML file to display it on the map.Any quick help will be greatly appreciated. I am developing the application using ASP .Net C#. Plz help. Regards, Vishal