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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 there? With ITabExtender it is possible.A word of warningBefore digging into how this can be ...

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.MyTab) for information on the display of a given Console add-in. As simple as this system is, ...

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 the time being and focus will move to the next major version) One of the discussed features was ...

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 against the larger console for other ways. Shouldn't there be an easier way? In many ...

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... ITabExtender (Microsoft.HomeServer.Extensibility, HomeServerControls.dll). An extension of ...

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 'first half of 2008'), but also that Windows Home Server is not a normal product that ...

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 a matter of breaking out the HomeServerConsole.exe.config file on the server and specifying ...

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 to display network health messages as well as the installed and available add-ins: Like so many ...

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 of my good friend Sonja in the wee town of Colton, SD (pop ~650) I embarked at ~11:30 for the ...

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 to see such wide spread WHS development that there were 100+ add-ins to choose from... ...