It must be nice to be an MVP (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love Vista)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
A couple weeks ago a Microsoft MVP screamed at the top of his blog that he’d give Vista 2 more weeks and then he’d leave for the murky waters of XP forever. Well some folks at Microsoft jumped onto the case and figured out the problem . I have co-workers and friends and acquaintances and people that I probably won’t ever talk to again tell me that they hate Vista so much that they’ll never use it.…
Silverlight Sidebar Gadgets in Vista
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
At Mix07 I asked the question, Can we write gadgets for Vista using Silverlight? The answer is yes, but nobody knew how to do it. Well Charles Sterling has a post today on his blog describing how to do it. Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2007/05/14/writing-a-windows-sidebar-gadget-in-silverlight-dead-simple.aspx
More Vista RSS Stuff
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Last time I visited this topic I was miffed that the platform SDK that I had access to at the time did not include the RSS API’s. They now exist and are called Web Feeds API. The problem is that they are in native COM only. There isn’t a managed version of them. So I get to use interop by calling the Type Library Importer on the msfeeds.dll. Didn’t they learn their lesson from DirectX that forcing developers to use a shim to the native code is a bad idea?…
Vista ❤ RSS... but hates developers
Monday, September 5, 2005
The RSS platform in Vista has three parts: Common Feed List Common Data Store Platform Sync Engine The data itself is structured like a directory structure. At the top is Feeds (a collection of feeds). Within Feeds there are a list of one or more folders. Each folder can contain zero or more folders and zero or more Feed. Each folder also has a folder properties…. er… properties. Each Feed has one or more Item and Feed Properties.…