MSN Direct Services How-to Topics
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10/16/2008
This section provides detailed guidelines on how to complete development tasks for MSN Direct services. The topics in this section will assist you with development scenarios such as setting up and using the MSN Direct receiver emulator and the MSN Direct sample application to test MSN Direct on your target device. Other scenarios include integrating MSN Direct into a device by creating an MSN Direct application, and adding support for the Send to GPS feature from Windows Live on the desktop.
In This Section
- How to Use the MSN Direct Development Tools
Describes how you can use the MSN Direct development tools to simulate the receipt and handling of MSN Direct data for development and testing.
- How to Integrate MSN Direct into a Device
Describes the process of integrating MSN Direct into a Windows Embedded NavReady powered device. This includes building an operating-system (OS) design that supports MSN Direct, creating an application that receives, processes, and displays MSN Direct data to the user, adding the application to the run-time image, and acquiring the supporting hardware.
- How to Enable Users to Send Search Results from a Desktop PC to a Portable Navigation Device
Describes how to enable users to use the Send to GPS feature on the desktop to find Points of Interest (POI) by using the desktop Live Search experience, and how to share them with their portable navigation device (PND).