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Adam expressed his frustration with creating tortoise compatible patches using git . He mentions a script that will do the job, which I have not yet tried. However if you are using git on windows you most likely have cygwin installed which you can use...
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One thing I love about *nix is the which command which will tell me where a certain file is located if it is in my path. Say I have patch.exe in my path somewhere, but I don't know where, here's a quick powershell script to find out: foreach(...
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Did you know the Home Server Console uses the Remote Desktop Protocol/Terminal Services to bring the application to clients? Did you know that you can launch additional applications in the session? Terminal Services Before getting into what we can do...
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Plenty of times we've seen the little status notifications at the bottom of the Home Server Console telling us who is logged in through the remote access web site or the status of the storage balancing: How would you like to put your own information...
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I've just got done updating one of my projects from castle trunk 4044 to trunk 4710 and given the amount of changes thought I would share. First things first, fix up those compiler errors. I had quite a few, but they were easy and pretty much the...
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I generally run all my projects that use castle off the trunk. However it has been several months since I've taken any updates, mostly due to lack of time on my part. As I'm upgrading there are many many changes which require me to update my code...
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Under the current tab model we are familiar with... the Home Server Console looks for a class named HomeServerTabExtender in a namespace based on the name of the assembly (ie HomeServerConsoleTab. MyTab .dll holds Microsoft.HomeServer.HomeServerConsoleTab...
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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...
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As easy as it is to create a tab for the Windows Home Server Console, something's are difficult. Needlessly so at times. Should a programmer want to know when their tab is being displayed they might watch for their Controls ParentChanged or reflect...
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A little secret is buried away in the Windows Home Server Console, a secret so useful it should have been officially documented and made available to the coding public long ago (in the opinion of this humble blogger) with a couple of tweaks. This secret...
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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...
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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...
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Q : How can I create my own list like what I see in the Home Server Console's Network Health dialog? A : Another one of the custom ListBox (like) controls exposed by Windows Home Server is the MessageListBox control, the very control that is used...
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To many... South Dakota is a backwater, podunk, cold as hell, boring, uninhabited wasteland with fowl-tasting water and a former powerful senator . To me... it's not just home, but a place I thoroughly love. Sunday night after attending the wedding...
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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...