TSF Aware

Many people have emailed me asking about the TSF samples on MSDN.  They’re supposed to be on MSDN code gallery, although they don’t appear to be there. They are, however, part of the Windows SDK . After installation, you'll find them in %programfiles%\Microsoft Read More...

I recently had two people ask me the same question: "Why can't I insert more than one character into a composition on Notepad?" It's actually a bit more complicated than that, since this behavior only appears to happen on Windows XP with a US English Read More...

Another useful, but underutilized, group of functions in TSF are those relating to Input Scopes. Input Scopes allow an application to define the sorts of things that are expected in this document (edit control, etc.). For example, the Internet Explorer Read More...

Kirby left a comment to my post on candidates asking when a text service should create an ITfCandidateList. The answer is that when the text service wants to show candidates (via a preserved key or other mechanism), it should show its modal UI, and quite Read More...