TSF Aware

One interface that I hadn't paid much attention to in TSF is ITfContextKeyEventSink . What does this let you do? Why, it lets you inspect keyboard input for a particular context (or document). This lets you do some really fun things, like redirect keyboard Read More...

I've received a few emails asking about debugging Text Services. I figured if two people actually went to the trouble of sending an email, that there's enough demand for a post. But first, a little diversion: It turns out that Visual Studio 2005 SP1 ships Read More...

I don't have anything better to blog about right now (I'm in the middle of reviews and designs), so I thought I would share a bit of whimsy - notably, this steampunk version of Star Trek. If you're familiar with A Trip to the Moon , you will find this Read More...

Another thing I didn't talk about in my article was how to make sure your rich text edit controls are based on RichEdit 4.1 (which has TSF support). You need to do two things: 1) change your window class name from RICHEDIT_CLASS to MSFTEDIT_CLASS, and Read More...

In my article in MSDN, I mention that there are some easy ways to enable dictation support in controls that don't normally support dictation. All the methods I described assume that the control has a window. There is a way to enable dictation support Read More...

You might have noticed that I haven't really talked about text stores on this blog. That's because I've been working on an article for MSDN Magazine on just that very subject. It's in the July 2007 issue, and I just got my copy in the mail, so if you're Read More...