Comments on: Microsoft Screwed Up Activities API Docs – It's addService NOT AddService

By: Mike’s Musings » Update on Activities, Microformats and Operator

Mike’s Musings » Update on Activities, Microformats and Operator — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:02:55 +0000

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By: Thomy Kay

Thomy Kay — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:01:12 +0000

I created an activity xml according to a href=”http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc289775(VS.85).aspx”>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc289775(VS.85).aspx.

IE is able to deal with namespaces correctly (os:* elements), your implementation is not. One reason is that it searches for element names without namespaces.

Would be good to support namespaces correctly in your plugin.

By: My first “Activity” « Coenwulf.0

My first “Activity” « Coenwulf.0 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:53:55 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:23:49 +0000

Deep breath, man. Bugs happen. It’s a Beta (heck, it’s a Developer Preview).

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:23:18 +0000

Hi mate,

I’ve updated my samples.

By: Johnny Stenback

Johnny Stenback — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:49:31 +0000

If you’re implementing this using XPCOM interfaces it would seem to me that you could create two unrelated interfaces (no inheritance relationship between the two), one defining “addService”, the other defining “AddService” and you advertise both these interfaces through an nsIClassInfo implementation callers should be able to call either function.

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:44:35 +0000

The whitepaper mentions both addService and AddService, even on the same page. Looks like a quick & dirty job to me…

By: asdf

asdf — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:09:11 +0000

window.external.IsServiceInstalled
window.external.AddService

that’s what in the whitepaper, but you probably knew that already