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This afternoon I was compelled to join a friend and his cousin in seeing this... horrible movie, and aside from making me wish that I had that 86 minutes and $5.25 back... I left encouraged to not go back and watch the first Alien vs Predator movie (which I've never seen) or any of the original Alien movies (one or two of which I've seen), ...

In many homes this morning countless children screamed and yelled as they discovered Santa had visited and left them just what they'd asked for. What follows is something I learned a few weeks ago and that made me act similarly... only I was giggling like a school girl. This blog post last week was my Santa. A major pain point I've ...

Q: What are some of the other Home Server Controls that I can take advantage of in my add-in? A: Three of the most commonly used controls are QButton, ConsoleToolBar and LineBox which individually behave virtually identical to existing controls, only draw themselves in a more Home Server-ish style. QButton Likely the most commonly used Home ...

Q: How can make a ListView that looks more like what I see in the Home Server Console with so many images and progress bars? A: Another one of the wonderful undocumented features of Windows Home Server is the FancyListView control (Microsoft.HomeServer.Controls, HomeServerControls.dll) that is used by all of the official Home Server Console tabs ...

Did you know that most of the custom visual controls used in the Windows Home Server Console (with the exception of the graphs) are unofficially available for your use in your add-ins? In order to access them in the designer, simply add the controls to your Toolbox, to do so: Launch Visual Studio Open desired project Open form or user control ...

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 as this one: Both tips #9 and #9.5 have been updated to reflect this new information and to ...

... aka "Ship It Award" This afternoon I found this box (which weighed a good pound and a half) at my door: And inside a well bubble wrapped package: The box: Inside: Sadly it seems the cube was just too large for it's container as it had broken free of some of the perforated cardboard:   Once out, it was ...

This morning I hopped on the scale for my daily weigh in and it told me I'd reached 246 lbs. Woot! While not an important number on it's own... nor is the 169.2 lbs I've lost since starting very special either, a quick look at a BMI calculator (along with my height of 6'4") tells me that I've now got a BMI (yes I know ...

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? It is a tab itself, which in turn loads a specified group of add-ins itself instead of having ...

Q: Remote debugging is fine and dandy... but what about debugging my application locally? A: For those who don't want to deal with the complexities of remote debugging, want the simplicity of having everything on a single machine and/or do not have a full copy of Visual Studio 2005 or 2008... then local debugging can be the way, however can ...