September 2009 Entries
Ok, you can all stop emailing me now! I’ve uploaded a bunch of H340 wireframes to the WHS Disk Management download page. Big thanks to everyone who contributed; I’ve received more H340 wireframes than any other OEM Home Server, and I could only post a few.
I’ve seen this question come up a few times, and I always forget the answer when I see it. So this post is more of a reminder to myself than anything! Shared Folders in WHS use localised names. For example, the French \\server\Software share is actually \\server\Logiciel. If you’re writing code that needs to manipulate files in a specific Shared Folder, you need to know the localised name of the share you’re working with. Enter Microsoft.HomeServer.Controls.ShareManager, referenced from HomeServerControls.dll. This static class exposes a whole lot of interesting methods and properties, but we care about these ones: ...
Or, How to Determine When Your Add-In Console Tab is Displayed. Consider this problem. You have some code that runs while your Add-In is displayed in the Windows Home Server Console (a monitoring thread, a timed data refresh, maybe some sort of animation), something that you want to turn off if your Add-In isn’t the currently open Tab. That’s good coding practice for WHS, I think – be a good neighbour. You don’t want some other developer’s long running task sucking all the CPU cycles while your Add-In is displayed, and they probably feel the same way! The...
Alex Kuretz over at MediaSmartServer.net has just posted a deep-dive into the new HP MediaSmart EX49x series servers. Today HP is continuing that evolution with the third generation of the EX series and have announced the upcoming release of the MediaSmart Server EX490 and EX495. I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent the last couple of weeks using and evaluating the EX495 model running the new 3.0 version of the MediaSmart Server software, and I’m ready to give you a tour of what you can expect from the new MediaSmart Server. Some of the...
The Windows Home Server Team Blog has a post up announcing the release of the Japanese version of the WHS SDK, and a Japanese WHS trial download to go along with it. The Windows Home Server team is very pleased to announce the availability of the Japanese Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK provides developers with guidance, for example application programming interface (API) information, on how to create programs that integrate with the Windows Home Server Console. The Japanese SDK can be found here, and the trial here. Here’s hoping this sparks another round...