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A Tour through TSF: TSF Managers

The next stop on the tour is an extended visit through the TSF manager interfaces. Since TSF implements a lot of interfaces, I decided to break them up into separate posts. I've also included a (very brief) description of how a text service (or application) Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 7:46 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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TSF Application interfaces

The first stop on the TSF tour is the application interfaces. These are implemented by applications or text controls. An application (or text control) must implement ITextStoreACP to be considered ‘TSF-aware'. It may choose to implement any of the other Read More...
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 3:36 PM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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A Tour through TSF

The Text Services Framework consists of over 100 interfaces. MSDN does a pretty good job describing what each interface implements, and who should implement it, but it doesn’t do a great job of showing how all the interfaces fit together. I've composed Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:38 PM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Transitory Contexts

What are Transitory Contexts? Transitory contexts are contexts managed by the TSF manager for applications that aren't TSF-Aware. They allow text services to operate in any application. However, there are substantial differences between Transitory contexts Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:24 AM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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Suggestions?

There is so much to write about TSF that I'm not really sure where to start. Some possibilities are: A guided tour through TSF, grouping the interfaces into categories, and explaining who implements them, and where they're typically implemented - for Read More...
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 9:02 AM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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TSF and Managed Code

Dan asked whether someone could write a text service in managed code. While I suspect that doing so is possible (but difficult), it is certainly not desirable . Text services get loaded into arbitrary processes, so they need to be small and lightweight. Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:58 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog! I'm Eric Brown, and I'm a developer in the Windows User Experience team. I'm responsible for making dictation work in Windows Speech Recognition. Dictation relies on the Text Services Framework to make things work, so I know a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:35 PM by Eric Brown | 4 Comments
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