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Major (and a month late) congratulations goes to Andrew Grant (no relation) and his add-in Whiist, David Wright and his Jungle Disk and Prakash Gautam with Community Feeds for Windows Home Server for winning the Microsoft Windows Home Server Code2Fame Challenge. It's truly wonderful to see so many great add-ins being created for this new ...

Q: How can I make a more WHS style Message Box like what the Home Server Console uses? Example: A: The Windows Home Server team already beat you to it and created the QMessageBox class (Microsoft.HomeServer.Controls, HomeServerControls.dll) which provides a very similar experience to the tried and true MessageBox class... only with a few ...

I'm pleased to announce the kick off a series of semi-regular Windows Home Server Developer Tips posts aimed at both add-in and standalone application developers that will cover some of the neat and undocumented features of Windows Home Server that programmers can take advantage of, as well use of some of the documented methods that are buried ...

Q: How can I programmable determine if the WHS Remote Access Web Site(s) are enabled or not? A: When a user first enables the WHS Web Sites through the Home Server Console, the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Home Server\Website Manager registry key is created and contains a single value named Connectivity which is set to 1 when the sites are ...

Not hearing anything from HD#2's offices nor from the Mayo Clinic regarding my last visit, I gave HD#2 a call last week... and again yesterday to see if everything had been sent out, if the required letter of medical necessity had been written and sent to my insurance company and when/if I should begin to worry about not yet hearing anything ...

Despite intending on being more logical in my coding and perfecting one set of API calls before moving on to another... over the weekend it was a fairly chaotic process as I ran back and forth between different pieces to make my ugly form with a dozen text boxes and two dozen different buttons to let me test out every little thing including ...

When one launches an administrative tool locally... one has good cause to expect it to list local resources automatically that the tool cares about right? Not so it seems with the DFS (Distributed File System) MMC applet. Over the weekend when working on my new add-in I was making use of NetDfsAddStdRoot() as well as a couple of other DFS calls ...

Despite my earlier estimate... I'm now expecting that my new WHS add-in will take significantly longer than first expected... largely because of the fights with the Win32 API. Currently (first of 3 separate API sets I need to work with) I'm implementing support for the Windows Distributed File System which requires 7 (for my purposes) or ...

After a brief discussion over on the Windows Home Server forums and a longer talk with a Windows Server admin sort of guy... a brilliant idea for a WHS Add-in came to mind... one so mind bogglingly simple (to the user) that requires a dozen or two Win32 API calls to various Windows Server 2003 DLL's and just 2 calls to WHS APIs. Unfortunately ...

One of the most hilarious and obviously futile moves (amongst so many) from our friends at Dozier Internet Law with it's to portray itself as a respectable and knowledgeable firm has been their user agreement that denies browsers permission to view the source code of their web site. What happens when you tell a group of geeks not to do ...