List Cache Deleter allows you to delete list cache files for accounts used with MSN Messenger. This is sometimes needed due to a bug in MSN Messenger which causes it to lose track of the list cache version and sends a blank string to the server as the current cache version, which makes it unable to sign in.
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Microsoft plans to deliver a new version of its popular MSN Messenger client by mid-2005 that will let users create a more customized instant messaging experience, the company says. Aside from the user experience, MSN Messenger also has to bring in more money, Microsoft representatives say. The company has not really tapped the online advertising opportunities in the client, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's MSN Information Services & Merchant Platform division. He addressed the topic at a meeting last week with financial analysts at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
To that goal, some of those new services might involve fees, subscriptions, and other user costs, Mehdi said. For example, the company charges a monthly fee for access to a game IM users can play with their MSN contacts. Microsoft introduced gaming recently in the U.S. and will roll it out internationally in the coming months, according to a Microsoft spokesperson.
MSN Messenger 6.1 introduces some new features to the Messenger API type library for display pictures, one being to be able to set and get your display picture, and an event is fired when your display picture changes.
To set your display picture, use the IMessenger property MyProperty, with the ePropType as MCONTACTPROP_USERTILE_PATH (const value is 2), giving it the full path to the new image, it does not have to be PNG as it is automatically converted.
m_evtMessenger.MyProperty(MCONTACTPROP_USERTILE_PATH) = txtNew.Text
msn:wh magazine has been launched after months of much waited anticipation. This first issue (Issue 0804) has numerous resources for novices and experts alike.