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Introduction Today I received the following mail from one of my blog readers: Hi Bart, The task scheduler in Vista and Windows Server 2008 has improved dramatically. Unfortunately, there are no classes in the .NET Framework that allow us VB.NET/C# developers...
This is going to be a somewhat unfamiliar post on my blog. The history for it goes back to 2003-2004 when I was involved in a local Microsoft Belux project called "SchoolServer". At that time, we used a Windows PE (where PE stands for "Pre...
Everyone knows UAC by now. One core element of Vista's UAC vision is the elevation of processes, used to run something as an administrator. Typically, you open up a command line instance (cmd.exe) which has been elevated already prior to invoking...
Time for another security feature in Windows Vista: WinSta0 isolation. The first question that might pop up in your head is "So, what exactly is WinSta0?". Keith Brown has the answer . The problem with WinSta0 is the possibility for Windows Services to...
Note: This article applies to the Visual Studio "Orcas" March 07 CTP build that can be downloaded from the Microsoft website . In this post we'll talk about embedding UAC (User Account Control) manifests in managed code executables without having to rely...
In November last year, I blogged about TxF: Windows Vista - Introducing TxF in C# (part 1) - Transacted file delete Windows Vista - Introducing TxF in C# (part 2) - Using System.Transactions and the DTC A few days ago I received a mail from a reader of...
I couldn't believe my own eyes when reviewing the blog stats of yesterday: a 90% overall increase in the number of requests. Impossible at first sight, but here's the explanation: a link on MSDN's Windows Vista homepage to my article on Application Recovery...
Introduction In the previous post about TxR , we covered how to interact with the KTM (Kernel Transaction Manager) directly from managed code and how to perform transactional registry operations, illustrated by using RegDeleteKeyTransacted . In today...
Introduction Last month I blogged about TxF in Windows Vista and how to use it from your own application to perform transactional file operations. You can find both posts over here: Windows Vista - Introducing TxF in C# (part 1) - Transacted file delete...
Yesterday I published a blog post about the WinSAT API in Windows Vista . It's always great to see others referring to posts and providing comments and suggestions, as this was the case with AddressOf.com . However, a few reactions on the reactions: I...
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