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Quick update on this post - Ian kindly gave me a nudge and said that running of .NET code inside of the shell might not be supported in that the shell loading COM components implemented in .NET might cause some versioning problems. I'll see if I can find an official answer to that and post it here but, in the meantime, apply a reasonably large dose of salt to the post. One of the nice features of the Vista shell is its ability to display different sizes of thumbnails based on the actual contents of a document. So, when I'm looking through a folder of 100's of PowerPoints or Spreadsheets I can actually see what it is I'm looking at in the shell rather than having to open all the documents. You can plug into this for your own document types by writing an implementation of the interface IThumbnailProvider and returning a bitmap back to the shell for it to use.
The Windows Vista Shell, Thumbnails and Managed Code
This free program for Windows XP lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe For anyone unfamiliar with the terms 'virtual CD' or 'CD emulator', they mean that you can copy the entire contents of a CD-ROM to your hard disk and run the programs or access the files without the original CD in your machine. This can make files more accessible, faster and more convenient.
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TechEd Demo Edit These are the top "gotchas" or "known issues" that folks seem to have trouble with in Hyper-V. "Gotchas" are sometimes also called "lessons learned" and "best practices." It is a best practice to avoid a known "gotcha". Please add any you have encountered. Applies to:
How to: View Certificates with the MMC Snap-in
A common type of credential is the X.509 certificate. When creating secure services or clients, you can specify a certificate be used as the client or service credential by using methods such as the SetCertificate method. The method requires various parameters, such as the store where the certificate is stored and a value to use when searching for the certificate. The following procedure demonstrates how to examine the stores on a computer to find an appropriate certificate.
Last Updated: 3/23/2013 20:02 PST One of the most frustrating things in life is a slow computer. Every few years, we buy an expensive new PC and love how fast it starts up, runs programs, and loads websites. Inevitably though, it starts to slow down until eventually we are pulling our hair out waiting for it to do routine tasks.