October 2008 Entries
After a long-weekend marathon, WHS Disk Management v1.1.0.0 has finally reached alpha status. I'm looking for a few brave souls to help with testing; if you're interested, send me a private message on the We Got Served forums, or contact us using the blog. So what's new in this release? Well, exciting things are afoot. We've changed to a client/service architecture, removing the heavy-lifting from the Add-In code and pushing the processing out to a Windows service. The change was made for a number of reasons, the most important of which are: To follow...
The Windows Home Server user interface includes a number of controls that extend normal Windows Forms functionality. FancyListView is the Windows Home Server extension of ListView, and includes a few nifty features: ImageSubItems to display images as ListView subitems FilledBarSubItems to show a configurable progress bar and accompanying label as a subitem Sorting by column works out of the box Brendan has a lot more detail on these new features in WHS Developer Tip #11: FancyListView. Dropping a FancyListView on to your design surface...
From the ‘Entirely Unexpected But Definitely Awesome’ department comes an MVP award from Microsoft, for my development work with Windows Home Server. I’m now amongst such illustrious luminaries as Terry, Phil, and Ken Warren. Between you and me, I almost deleted the welcome email as spam. Now, of course, I have to live up to the hype. I’ve mostly been posting on the We Got Served forums, and occasionally on the Windows Home Server Microsoft Forum, so I haven’t had a central place from which to pontificate about Windows Home Server development topics. Good excuse for...