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• Future of my Add-ins

  Traditionally most companies are fine with their employees making a buck on the side or donating their time or services  just so long as doing so doesn't conflict of interest with the their day job either through causing ones work quality to... Posted Sep 26 2008, 08:14 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, DHCP4WHS

• Power Pack 1 and Tab Manager

  With the recent public release the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 it is imperative that any users of Tab Manager take special care when upgrading to avoid being incessantly nagged . Problem Due to changes in the way the Console... Posted Jun 09 2008, 03:13 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server

• Multiple-Voices

  What's worse than hearing multiple voices in your head? Trying to speak with multiple voices. The time has come to split my blogging as I now find myself having two separate voices... Brendan Grant, Software Development Engineer on the Windows Home... Posted Jun 09 2008, 09:41 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server

• One Month In

  This morning I realized that one month ago yesterday (3/24) I arrived bright and early to building 43 on the Microsoft campus to begin NEO ( New Employee Orientation ) and to begin my career with Microsoft. What a month it's been. While all of the... Posted Apr 25 2008, 09:02 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Mr. Grant Goes to Washington (state)

  ... or Borg.Assimilate(Me) ... or Brendan.Drink(Drink.KoolAid); ... or Brendan.Soul.Sell(Microsoft) ... or Brendan.Employer.Name = "Microsoft"; At last the background checks are complete and now all that remains is the move and my first day... Posted Feb 22 2008, 07:03 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Proof of concept add-in: Media Connect Controller

  While the Home Server Console exposes the ability to share ones built in Videos, Music and Pictures shares using Windows Media Connect (WMC) (Microsoft's implementation of the Universal Plug and Play Audio and Video standards )... the Home Server... Posted Feb 10 2008, 03:45 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• New Home Server Add-in: Tab Manager

  In yet another attempt to make the Home Server Console a little more manageable with regards to multiple tabs, Tab Manager allows a user to bypass the normal Home Server Add-in loading mechanism and display whatever tabs they want inside of another tab... Posted Jan 23 2008, 09:09 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Coming Soon: Tab Management

  Last month I mentioned a proof of concept add-in I was working on to change the way a user looks at some of the tabs in the Home Server Console. I'm pleased to say that this add-in still proceeds (granted fairly slowly over the last month) and with... Posted Jan 16 2008, 11:12 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• Amazing New Add-in: Disk Management

  After first seeing the announcement of Sam Wood's new Disk Management add-in I cursed at being beaten out of the door with a tool to help a user figure out which drive is which in their Home Server Console as my attempt kept getting pushed back due... Posted Jan 15 2008, 01:56 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• WHS Idea: Silverlight Uploader

  After the announcement of Power Pack 1, on10 posted an interview yesterday with Windows Home Server Product Planning Manager Todd Headrick discussing it and it's relation to overall Home Server development (ie it sounds like PP1 will be alone for... Posted Jan 08 2008, 05:50 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server

• Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

  As you already now know, the Windows Home Server team has announced Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 . I like this... big time. Not only does it mean that the long awaited 64-bit connector software will soon be ours (soon being sometime during the vague... Posted Jan 07 2008, 05:48 AM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server

• Multiple OEM Home Server Tabs

  The Windows Home Server Console reserves the left most tab position to a tab supplied by the OEM who builds the actual Windows Home Server... such as what is seen in the HP MediaSmart server: Did you know that you can specify your own? It's simply... Posted Jan 03 2008, 06:40 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server

• How many tabs is too many?

  Ever wonder how many console tabs the Windows Home Server Console can display? So did I... so I built a few extra projects and deployed them to my Home Server: The answer is... 100 and believe it or not... that's a bad thing! As much as I would like... Posted Dec 30 2007, 02:43 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development

• WHS Dev Tips: Correction

  On Monday and Tuesday I made a horrible mistake in the two part WHS Dev Tip on remote and local debugging as I completely forgot about the static Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls property that can be used to get around debug time exceptions such... Posted Dec 13 2007, 04:25 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development, WHS Dev Tips

• Proof of concept add-in: Tab Management

  Part of the reason I created Tab Scroller was that at times I just have too many tabs to deal with in the Windows Home Server Console and today I came up with another method of dealing with large numbers of them... a Tab Management tab. What does it do... Posted Dec 11 2007, 09:34 PM by I Hate Linux Filed under: Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server Development