CodePrairie .NET

Q: Is there a faster way to add a reference to a Windows Home Server assembly instead of manually navigating to where the actual files reside? A: The easiest way is to have the desired assemblies show up under the .NET tab of the Add References dialog: Two things are required to achieve this, a local copy of the assemblies and a registry ...

Q: How can I use some of the pictures and icons that are used by the Home Server Console? A: Rather than violating the EULA and ripping the images you want straight from the files that came with Windows Home Server (which is certainly possible)... you can look to the CommonImages class (Microsoft.HomeServer.Common.Client, WHSCommon.dll) and ...

Some say that that the majority of developers are psychologically incapable of adequately testing their own code (outside of unit testing) because subconsciously they know where their program works and where it doesn't and will avoid straying from the path so that their program keeps working great. I admit it... I'm one of those ...

Q: Is there an easier way to get started in building my add-in other than building it from scratch... like a project template? A: There are no official project templates and to fill this gap back in April (now) WHS MVP Ken Warren did release a couple example templates that I've used for every single add-in and test add-in I've ...

Jack Bauer saves the world with AOL 3.0. If you'll excuse me... I need to go dry my eyes.

I was browsing around some of the nooks and crannies of my Home Server this evening and ran into a file named readme.txt (located in C:\Inetpub\remote\readme.txt) which said: Q Home Server Install Doc   To install remote access for Q Home Server follow these steps. 1. Run RemoteAccess.msi This will install the website 3. Run dsa.msc and ...

As part of his eternal studenthood (with the current phase occurring at UNL), Dan over at tdaxp has put out a call for participants for a 30 minute survey that focuses on Creativity and Blogging. Do you have 30 minutes you don't mind burning for the cause of science? No? Come on, it's easy and it helps out with something that is described ...

Off and on for the last couple of days I've been playing around with making Visual Studio project templates and customizing them with Template Parameters and ran into a little issue... the assembly name template being specified in the larger template is simply ignored. What does that mean? If I create a custom template with the AssemblyName ...

Q: How can I make Visual Studio provide more useful Intellisense support for the Windows Home Server SDK? A: In order to get Intellisense support in Visual Studio a developer needs an xml file that contains all of the xml comments from the original code, something that was likely used to create the documentation available on MSDN today... ...

As reported elsewhere (MS Windows Home Server and Windows Home Server Blog), there is a new video on Channel 9 (as well as one on on10.net with Charlie Kindel) that is a sit down with Home Server Lead Developer Chris Gray (get back to the blogging man!) where he talks about building add-ins for Windows Home Server. What hasn't been reported ...