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September 2006 - Posts
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In the first blog post on unattended setup, I showed you how Windows Vista setup can be ‘scripted’ with unattend answer files to suppress UI prompts and perform common deployment tasks. Unattend setup lets you easily deploy Windows Vista on Read More...
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Part 2: The most common mistakes in using SHFileOperation For my second installment, I thought it would be helpful to point out the most common coding mistakes I've seen with SHFileOperation. 1. Always double-null terminate your paths This is the Read More...
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(This is a long post but there's a special treat for you at the end!) My favorite part of the product cycle is right before we start the development phase. For me it’s extremely exciting to work with all of the different disciplines to build Read More...
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I have worked on a lot of software in the past 20+ years in the software business but I must say that nothing compares to working on Windows. My friends and associates outside windows often ask what I mean by that, and I have a hard time explaining. It Read More...
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One of the reasons we created this site was to give some insight into feature design decisions or why features look like they do. Without further delay, here’s some insight into why the Aero Wizard title bar is so big. A standard window has what’s Read More...
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We don’t often talk about it openly, but there is one area where everyone knows that Microsoft has historically been way behind Apple. It is just one of those places where Apple places an emphasis up-front while we have considered it almost an afterthought Read More...
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One of the first things people notice when they start using Vista is the absence of menu bars. Explorer, photo gallery, media player, and IE all don’t show menus by default and just use the so-called “command module.” What is up with Read More...
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Building Your First TaskDialog (Part 2) Jeff Miller - September 20, 2006 Hello, and welcome back to the second part of this series on programming TaskDialogs. If you haven't read part one of this series, you'll want to do that first, as it contains Read More...
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If you installed any build of Windows Vista prior to RC1, you may have noticed a slight omission from the set of modes you could select for your folder views. Sure, we introduced cool new live icons that show you previews of the actual file contents and Read More...
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For any developer building on Windows, you know there are two ways to build a dialog – roll your own using a dialog template or use MessageBox() . Ugh. We’re just begging developers to go the easy route and use MessageBox to cram a paragraph Read More...
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Building Your First TaskDialog (Part 1) Jeff Miller - September 19, 2006 A TaskDialog is a new control for Windows Vista which can be thought of as a MessageBox on steroids. If you have information you need to present to a user using a dialog, you will Read More...
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Back in March of this year, Frank Hayes a columnist for ComputerWorld (one of my favorite weekly magazines), wrote a fantastic article called “ Innovate Big .” I loved this article so much I cut it out of the magazine and posted it on my office Read More...
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We’ve received good feedback about RC1 and how its quality has improved over Beta 2. We certainly didn’t do this alone though and I want to reveal the powerful, if somewhat secret, force behind a lot of these changes: our Beta Community. Our Read More...
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A common question we get is "hey, what happened to feature <x> that we saw demonstrated years ago?" The most common one of these lately has been the floppy windows that we showed off at WinHEC. After the XGL stuff started making the rounds Read More...
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DaveVr opened the flood gates with his post “ Windows Vista – Fit & Finish ,” and we couldn’t be more excited to hear what you have to say! We want the community to know that we’re listening and we want to do the right Read More...
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Generally speaking, if a tester waits until code has finished being written, they are not going to be able to get the product to their own high level of quality. Time is against you, and developers will eventually start menacing you with nerf rifles when Read More...
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NOTE: Unattended setup is geared at OEMs and corporate customers, and not really at consumers, so you may not be able to download tools and documentation from http://connect.microsoft.com . But read on … this is a really cool Windows Vista feature! Read More...
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Lots of people ask about UX guidelines for Vista and in general how to make their apps look more like Vista. UX Guidelines has been one of the areas where Microsoft has sort of lost our way in past years. We made a really big push for this in the Windows Read More...
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Hi all - Dave Vronay here! I am a research manager at Microsoft, running a team called the Windows User Experience Compliance team. We make the UI guidelines for Vista - check them out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/uxguide The other big thing Read More...
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Every once in a while I get an e-mail from someone asking about the Advanced Appearance dialog. This dialog, which is now part of the Personalization CPL, allows users to change system colors & metrics for various pieces of the UI. All of the users Read More...
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Welcome to the new Shell Blog!!! My name is Ed Averett. I am a program manager on the Windows Shell team. A lot has changed in Windows Vista with regards to defaults and file associations. Over time I will cover these in depth, but first I wanted to give Read More...
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Hi! Welcome to the Windows Shell Blog site. My name is Jerry Koh, and I’m the Lead PM for First Experience, Logon and Profiles Team in Shell. We build and work with many partner teams to bring you the First Experience on Windows, as well as the Read More...
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Over the years, I have seen many questions being asked on newsgroups and developer forums concerning the SHFileOperation API. This API allows developers to perform file operations such as Copy, Move, Rename and Delete as well as provide rich UI for confirmation, Read More...
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One of the major aspects of Aero is the visual appearance of Windows. There are many components to the visual appearance and learning all of the components can be quite confusing. Since I started working on Aero, I found that many people inside & Read More...
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