knom's developer corner

I've heard of problems with Visual Studio "Orcas" - now Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 and March CTP installed together with VS 2005. After running the setup of Visual Studio 2008 users had problems opening the .NET Framework configuration MMC snap-in out Read More...

As for Vista the Windows Desktop search is now fully integrated into the OS, there are several ways to take advantage of it: a) Plugin your data sources into the searchindex Vista search is capable of searching all kinds of file formats and storage locations. Read More...

Last time I showed you how to integrate an application manifest in to your project for UAC purposes via post-build actions. As this doesn't seem like the straightest way to do this (not just to me), Visual Studio 2008 will come with new support for application Read More...

Before moving over to Silverlight I'll spend one last time to post some additional experiences I've had with Windows Vista Development. In this "mini-series" I'm gonna start with clearly the most well-known, most prominent and most feared features: User Read More...

To prove the use of Silverlight in Vista Sidebar Gadgets, I recently created a really simple, but good looking ;-) Sidebar Gadget with a Silverlight App embedded! Here is what it looks like: Don't bother about the pink animal watch ;-) The gadget basically Read More...

Last week I was "On-Tour" at local Usergroups in Vorarlberg (Dornbirn) and Tyrol (Innsbruck). I did one of my last presentations of Windows Vista Development! (Meaning NOT .NET 3.0, but unmanaged APIs, like those already posted on my blog). Thanks for Read More...