A friend of mine, Boris Rogge has a company www.metanous.be, he is an expert at the Microsoft Surface Computing Platform.
He already has such a table and can create great applications on it!
Now, there is a contest for MIX’10 that you can present your own session. The best 10 (most voted) get that honour.
So help him out, by voting here: http://visitmix.com/opencallvote/Entry?entryId=REALWO092
First click ‘Add Ballot’ followed by ‘Submit’.
The results have been published and AutoExit 2009 made it to #1 on UsingWindowsHomeServer in the category ‘Best Windows Home Server Software (Non Commercial)’
It made it to #2 on WeGotServed a few days ago.
AutoExit 2009 voted #1 on UsingWindowsHomeServer
Congratulations to snowdins with his second place with the P80 software!
Thanks to all people that voted!
Yesterday afternoon I got a mail from Microsoft telling me I was awarded the MVP Award!
And it feels great being awarded with this title and even more to get it on the first of January!
Maybe now is the time to thank all the people who have supported me during all these years being in the WHS world/community, who have helped me get my add-ins tested/translated/…, reviewed my articles, getting problems fixed,… and supported me through my first steps in the WHS world.
They are too many to list here, but you know who you are! 
So I can now officially call myself an MVP and join the MVP Family as they like to call it
And congratulations to all others that have been (re-)awarded!
The awards have been closed and the results are known!
In the category of ‘Best Home Server Addins’, AutoExit 2009 got second place!
Thanks guys! 
You can find all details here: http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/12/31/we-got-served-reader-awards-2009-the-winners-announced/
To everyone, Best Wishes for 2010!
May 2010 bring lots of happyness, fun, health and all you could wish for!
Nick
In my previous post I mentioned that it was that time of year again that WeGotServed had its well known Reader Awards.
AutoExit 2009 was selected and you could vote for it. (Only three days left to vote, so hurry up!)
But Andrew Edney of Using Windows Home Server is also having something similar for the first time!
And AutoExit 2009 made it to the final round and is also one of the nominated add-ins, in the category ‘Best Windows Home Server Add-in’.
So go over here and get voting for all your favorite WHS goodies: http://usingwindowshomeserver.com/2009/12/28/using-windows-home-server-readers-awards-2009-finalists/
For WeGotServed, vote here: http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/12/21/vote-in-the-we-got-served-reader-awards-2009/
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Nick
It’s that time of year again, you can go over to WeGotServed and vote for your most favourite WHS goodies (HW/SW,Addins,…).
Even AutoExit 2009 is in the list of nominations
Go and give your vote over here: http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/12/21/vote-in-the-we-got-served-reader-awards-2009/
Problem in the past for newbie WHS developers, was that documentation/information on how to build add-ins, use the API’s etc… was scarce.
At the time I started developing AutoExit (2007) there wasn’t a lot of info, but luckily you had guys like Brendan Grant that hacked it and documented stuff.
Now fastforward to 2009 and you will find a lot more info: on MSDN, Brendan Grant, Sam Wood have great tutorials, I have tutorials (see on this blog),…
Problem still is, that as a newbie you have all these resources but how & where do you start? You can use Sam Woods tutorials that walk you through step by step, then look into Brendans documents to get info on the controls e.g and read mine to use certain undocumented classes, use the Microsoft forums,…
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,…
Luckily I got permission from Sam Wood to include his articles so that I didn’t have to re-write big parts that already existed and I also got Brendan’s permission to use his info.
Which of course helped a lot to decrease the time to get this out to you guys!
I hope by creating such a ‘bundled package’ that a newbie WHS developer has a guide to walk him/her through the whole process and at the end have an add-in that is ready for the public to use.
Now this kit/documentation is what Sam likes to call a ‘living document‘, which means it constantly changes and is basically never finished.
It is still rough around the edges and probably still contains some mistakes, so if you have remarks/ideas/fixes/… let me know and maybe I can include them!
A note before you begin: Do not send WHS development related questions to me or anyone else that helped in creating this guide.
Use the Microsoft forums and people will try to answer as much as possible over there, like works now.
Only contact me in private if you have questions/… regarding the kit itself.
I would like to thank Sam for helping me by donating his articles and for reviewing the document/kit + giving feedback.
And the same for Brendan who also let me use his articles.
Enjoy & go spread the word!
You can download it here.
It would be nice if you started your ‘WHS add-in author career’ with this guide, that you mention it on your site and link back to this blog/article + send me information about your add-in. I can then also post it on this blog.
For those that don’t know yet, Microsoft has released a new PowerPack for Windows Home Server, currently we are at release 3.
This PP has a lot of new features, Dave McCabe from the HomeServerShow did an interview with Jonas Svenson from Microsoft on the new features in PP3!
You hear it here.
if you want to know what’s new then have a look at these articles from our WHS Buddies:
- WeGotServed
- HomeServerLand
- MSWHS
- MediaSmartServer
For the people that joined the Beta program and have a pre-release version installed, you can find an article here on how to uninstall.
Enjoy!
