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Michael Creasy [MSFT]

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More options Jun 6 2005, 12:17 pm

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From: "Michael Creasy [MSFT]" <mcre...@online.microsoft.com>

Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:17:31 -0700

Local: Mon, Jun 6 2005 12:17 pm

Subject: Re: IsEntryPointRegistered not working

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Only a registred app can tell if an entrypoint is registered and only an
entrypoint it owns. This is to prevent Company A seeing if Company B's
software is installed on your system.

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"casey chesnut" <casey@MORE_SPAMbrains-N-brawn.com> wrote in message

news:%23JwSZzeaFHA.3184@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

> it actually just worked a second ago.
> it seems to work from 'More Programs', but not from a MCL file?

> Thanks,
> casey
> http://www.brains-N-brawn.com

> "casey chesnut" <casey@MORE_SPAMbrains-N-brawn.com> wrote in message
> news:Oxwr$8daFHA.3132@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> this is basically straight from the SDK sample NewsMain.htm
>> i'm registering my Hosted HTML like this :

>> var sXMLString = "<application title='brains-N-brawn.com'
>> companyname='brains-N-brawn LLC'
>> id='{A3CC7DED-E765-488d-A607-1AD5AD9BF570}'><entrypoint
>> id='{A3CC7DED-E765-488d-A607-1AD5AD9BF571}'
>> url='http://www.brains-N-brawn.com/' title='brains-N-brawn.com'
>> description='brains-N-brawn.com'
>> ImageUrl='http://www.brains-N-brawn.com/bNbLogoMce.PNG'><category
>> category='More Programs'/></entrypoint></application>";
>> window.external.MediaCenter.RegisterApplication(sXMLString, false, true);

>> then in pageLoadFunctions it calls checkRegistered :

>> var bIsRegistered =
>> window.external.MediaCenter.IsEntryPointRegistered('{A3CC7DED-E765-488d-A60 7-1AD5AD9BF571}');

>> the problem is that bIsRegistered always returns false?
>> but if i try to re-register then i get an error dialog saying its already
>> registered ...

>> Thanks,
>> casey

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