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Vista Search for Developers

Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:30 AM by knom
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...
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UAC with .NET in Visual Studio 2008

Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:00 AM by knom
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...
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VISTA User Account Control with .NET

Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 9:00 AM by knom
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...
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Transparent Silverlight Sidebar Gadget

Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:43 AM by knom
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...
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Attachment(s): SilverlightFun.gadget

Vista API Demos with C#

Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 6:10 PM by knom
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...
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UAC Elevation for MSI Packages

Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 5:05 PM by knom
It has been serveral times now, that I tried to install an MSI package and occurred some strange error! The reason for this... yes Vista User Account Control! Unfortunately MSI Packages do not elevate automatically, and it's also hard to elevate them Read More...
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BigDays Demos and Links

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:03 PM by knom
Yesterday was the final spurt of our Big>Days 2007 Roadshow! One day of sessions in Vienna's "Austria Convention Center"! At the same time as our conference, there were official exams for financial inspectors - which resulted in a funny incident: As Read More...
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Clean Up the Vista Networks

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:00 AM by knom
In my last post I wrote about the Vista Network List Manager! If you ran the sample, I attached you might see a lot of "old" networks still stored on your machine! (like some WLANs at hotels, ...) I was wondering how to clean up the list of networks and Read More...
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Vista Network List Manager

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 10:00 AM by knom
Another new feature I came across is called "Network List Manager"! This new COM Type Library allows you to enumerate all available networks or network interfaces and read or even write extended properties of those. To use the new API, you need to add Read More...
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Attachment(s): NLM_Demo.zip

Vista Command Link Control with C# / Windows Forms

Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 9:44 AM by knom
How to write a wrapper control for Windows Vista command links in Windows Forms / C#. Read More...
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Attachment(s): CommandLink.cs

[Update] Big>Days 2007

Posted Sunday, March 11, 2007 9:56 PM by knom
Hi! Last week we tested our session in a 5pm - 11pm rehearsal.. Unfortunately we've found out: it is far too long. Unless you don't care spending > 2 hours we should shorten it up a little. So here's the plan: I threw out the UI and UAC stuff (I will Read More...
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SQL Server User Provisioning Tool for Vista

Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 1:35 PM by knom
After installing SQL Server 2005 or Express on Windows Vista you may have noticed, that your user accounts (even though being in the local computer's administrators group) are not allowed to connect to the SQL Server. Which is bad if you're not running Read More...
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