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Apologies for the delay of this post, I’ve been busy with MIX07. Charles Torre and I organized the MIX07 Sandbox this year, and it was a great success. This year we raised the bar with regards to the types of people that a Hands on lab was interesting
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I'd like to draw attention to Contacts.NET available on CodePlex. I had a need to work with the Windows Vista Contacts. There are native API's, but alas I am now a .NET developer. I thought that I was going to be forced to brush up on my C++ to wrap the
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ThumbnailProvider interface The ThumbnailProvider interface is new to Windows Vista and enables thumbnails to show up in a beautiful 32-bit color, 256 x 256 pixel resolution. This sample’s ThumbnailProvider implementation, doesn’t show much above and
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Displaying a custom Thumbnail in the shell The next thing that I wanted to do was to have a Thumbnail display in the shell for “Electronic Cookbook” files. My goal was to have each recipe file show an image of its recipe item. I’d never done this before
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This is the first in a series of blog postings which explore designing and building a recipe application using Windows Vista and the .NET 3.0 framework. In this blog, I write about designing the application and the thought process that I went through
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