The add-in development community that’s sprung up around Windows Home Server has led to the creation of over 100 applications to extend the platform. The best of these add-ins are now essential downloads, recommended for all users. You can check out the full list of Windows Home Server add-ins over at WHSPlus.com
But if you’re a developer, how do you get started building your first add-in? There’s an SDK and various documents to help you through the basics, but they’re split all over the internet.
Or rather, they were! Asoft’s Nick Asseloos has collated tutorials and walkthroughs from leading add-in developers as well as technical documentation from Microsoft and has built the Newbie WHS Developer Kit – a 40Mb download chock full of developer goodness.
Nick writes:
What I tried to do is create 1 package with all kinds of tutorials by combining them and walking you through the different steps of setting up a development environment up until the release, but also by including on how to create help files, localize an add-in, test it, release it,…
With contributions from Nick, Sam Wood and Brendan Grant, the kit provides a comprehensive guide to creating cool apps for Windows Home Server.
More Info: Newbie WHS Developer Kit
8. December 2009 at 9:33 pm
Humm. This may – MAY – inspire me to write an "Alert Mute" add-on… somehow.
… On second thought, that may not be such a hot idea. I've got tons of PHP coding experience, but nearly zero desktop experience. *shrug*
9. December 2009 at 12:37 am
Would be handy for gaming if the notification didn't pull your game down to the task tray and let you get owned in the virtual world whilst you have no control. Ahh the frustrations of the notification.
Thanks a lot Nick, Sam Wood and Brendan Grant. I was on the way to begin (notice the wording there) an add-in but the lack of documentation was frightening. Glad somebody done MSs job.
10. December 2009 at 7:20 am
Well, you can entirely turn off (eh, "Mute") the popup notifications by right-clicking the icon in the tray and click to uncheck "Display network health notifications" (or something to that effect). That would solve that problem.
My issue is that my "network health notifications" alert me of only entirely useless garbage, like that antispyware protection is not installed on (one of countless computers it's not installed on). I can ignore the issue but it reappears the moment the condition arises again. I got tired of muting all the errors and have learned to live with (and laugh mockingly at) the "Your home network IS AT RISK!!!" (omg!) status.
Somehow – SOMEHOW – the WHS community hasn't seen the major glaring issue with this. So nothing has been done to fix it. =(
10. December 2009 at 7:11 am
Well, you can entirely turn off (eh, "Mute") the popup notifications by right-clicking the icon in the tray and click to uncheck "Display network health notifications" (or something to that effect). That would solve that problem.
My issue is that my "network health notifications" alert me of only entirely useless garbage, like that antispyware protection is not installed on (one of countless computers it's not installed on). I can ignore the issue but it reappears the moment the condition arises again. I got tired of muting all the errors and have learned to live with (and laugh mockingly at) the "Your home network IS AT RISK!!!" (omg!) status.
Somehow – SOMEHOW – the WHS community hasn't seen the major glaring issue with this. So nothing has been done to fix it. =(
10. December 2009 at 12:29 pm
Yeh that's the problem most messages are useless for me (nothing I don't already know). I keep it on for that one in a million you have conflicts or something.
8. December 2009 at 9:33 pm
Humm. This may – MAY – inspire me to write an "Alert Mute" add-on… somehow.
… On second thought, that may not be such a hot idea. I've got tons of PHP coding experience, but nearly zero desktop experience. *shrug*