How To: Write an Add-in for Windows Home Server

By on December 5, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

Sam Wood, developer of the highly-regarded WHS Disk Management has kicked off a series of tutorials to walk budding home server developers through creating their first add-in.

This is a multi-part series, the first of which has just been published today. Part 1 begins with a run through of the development software you’ll need to get started, including the free Visual Studio Express and WiX.

If you’re ready to take your first tentative steps into development, or just want to know how Windows Home Server add-in development works, then you can learn from one of the masters over at Sam’s blog.

This will be the first part in a series of tutorials aimed at guiding novice developers though building a “Hello World” Windows Home Server Add-In, using only freely-available tools (including Visual Studio Express).

One of the major barriers for beginning developers creating Add-Ins is that the initial setup and configuration of the development environment is fairly convoluted; you need to bring together quite a few components to even make a start.

Because of this, our first tutorial guides you through the installation and configuration of Visual Studio Express, with some Windows Home Server-specific steps. It’s not glamorous, but it needs to be done!

Continue Reading: “Hello World” Windows Home Server Add-in Part 1


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  • importedprogrammer

    At last a much and grateful tutorial that has been need for a longtime now. Now i can have some fun as i myself mainly like playing with hardware side off pc’s (modding). now i be able to start playing with the software side. Cheers and keep it coming. Knowledge is better when shared.

  • Stenton23

    Excellent!

    I installed WHS Disk Management last night, because of Jim Clark’s review, and the add-in is just as useful as described.

    I’m anxious to walk through Mr. Wood’s tutorial.

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  • http://www.tentaclesoftware.com/blog Sam Wood

    Thanks for the kind words. Part 2 of the series is now up.

  • Doug

    Hi Sam! Great tutorial… will there one for those of us that use Visual Basic?

  • http://www.tentaclesoftware.com/blog Sam Wood

    @Doug – I was planning to do the whole thing in C# (I don’t know VB.NET), but we haven’t done any code yet. Everything written so far should apply equally to Visual Studio Express for VB.

    I’ll see what I can do for the next part, which actually involves writing some code.

  • Doug

    Sam… You already do enough for the community. No sense expecting you to learn another language just for me. No doubt much of your tutorial will be a big help to me. I’m certain I can figure out the VB code where necessary. Thanks again for all you do!

  • http://www.tentaclesoftware.com/blog Sam Wood

    Part 3 is up.