How to Enable Users to Send Search Results from a Desktop PC to a Portable Navigation Device
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10/16/2008
Windows Live provides a Send to GPS desktop feature that enables users to find Points of Interest (POI) by using the desktop Live Search experience, and share them with their portable navigation device (PND). With Send to GPS, users can search for locations on their desktop PCs and then send these locations wirelessly through MSN Direct services to PNDs in their cars. These locations appear in the main menu under Received Locations.
In order to use Live Search to find and MSN Direct services to send POI information to a PND, each user must register and obtain a Windows Live ID.
Hardware and Software Assumptions
- You have built an MSN Direct application by following the steps in How to Integrate MSN Direct into a Device.
Steps
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1. Modify the MSN Direct application by providing code to support user-location messages and to handle incoming messages that contain user locations. |
Adding Support for User Locations to an MSN Direct Application |
2. In the MSN Direct application, create a user interface (UI) component for Received Locations according to the UI and logo requirements. |
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3. Create user documentation that describes how to set up and use your portable navigation device (PND). |
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4. Add a section to your user documentation that describes how to send search results from the user's desktop PC to their PND. |
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5. Publish your user documentation and deploy it together with your PND. |
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