The Crimson API as C# bindings....

There are a few elements of information you can get out of the system settings for WPC, allowing you to see how various aspects of the parental controls system is setup. It is easy enough to read these settings using WMI and some javascript so we can...

There have been some comments about various aspects of Parental Controls being overwhelming, specifically in this post . It is true that some of the existing parental control companies will not be so keen on some features, however there is a lot of area...

The log viewer in Parental Controls reads in the public available system logs and turns them into the data you can see in the control panel. The logs are brought in from a couple of places, the System logs, the Application logs and the Parental controls...

It is possible to turn on parental controls if your machine is on a domain, but default it is disabled. It is not possible to turn on parental controls for Business skews of Vista since parental controls is not present on the machine at all in these skews...

It is possible to see exceptions passed back in the messages sent to the service. This makes it a lot easier to debug multi-peer applications. The way to do this is to add into the web.config file the section. You can see in the following config section...

Windows Parental Controls exposes a RatingSystem class that can be used to find all the rating systems on the system as well as the name and all the ratings used inside the system. This is what is used inside Windows Parental Controls to show the pretty...

The WPC event system logs a series of events to the WPC crimson channel. The channel contents is viewable inside the log viewer and it has a path of: Microsoft-Windows-ParentalControls/Operational. The events are logged with a variety of different parameters...

Getting the file description in C# requires using the VerQueryInfo calls to load in the data from the file. First you load in the culture information so you get the information in the right language and then you load the actual data into the buffer. To...

When you install parental controls on vista there are a few hidden items that are not displayed in the control panel. These are exemption lists for the applications and for specific web sites. Specific applications might want to be able to have free access...

Short summary of Windows parental control features: Game Restrictions – ability to restrict games based on ratings and on descriptors associated with the game. These are based on ESRB ratings, and other rating systems from other countries. Application...

Here is a conversion of the WPCEvents.h file that is used with the vista SDK to get the parts of the various crimson events converted into c#. I have written about this file before and how the parts are connected together and how all the numbers work...

Just wandering around on you tube and discovered an apple (uk) ad targeting parental controls, with the 'naughty step'. The Mac says something about blocking items being "isn't that what kids want to do?". The idea behind parental controls is to block...

On April the 11th Kurt Vonnegut died , one of my favourite authors. He wrote amazing books and short stories, like Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five. I remember the first time I read Slaughterhouse Five, it amazed me and surprised me. One...

A co-worker (Kyle Olson) came up with a list of items about how to take responsability for your code that I thought was quite useful. I am reposting the article here. I would like to add that one thing you should always be thinking about when writing...

A tip when making Meringue is to use a teaspoon of vinegar (or lemon juice, something acidic) in the meringue mixture, it makes it a little tangier and works a lot better. Just a small amount of lemon juice can work really well with a lemon meringue pie...

It is interesting that the Australian Government is getting into the act on releasing a free web filter for use with windows, I wonder if they are connecting up to the Vista parental controls settings built into vista. I have to wonder if they provide...

For a game to show up in Parental Controls as being run a few things need to happen. First the game must have a GDF file so it will be properly registered with the Game Explorer. Once the game is correctly registered with the Game Explorer it will show...

We have had a lot of good press coverage from Parental Controls over the past few days, which has been great. Bill Gates and various other people have been pressing it as one of the main reasons to upgrade to Vista, I think it is a very good reason to...

This is a nifty site with an interesting story .

Looks like Bill Gates is using parental controls for his children these days, nice to see that people within the company are buying off and using the technology as well. We have had a surprisingly small amount of negative press on the parental controls...

I was looking around at ways to optimise asp.net over the last few days and ran across this article about using ROW_NUMBER(), which is quite good. There were a few aspects of it missing that I had to do a little more work to look up. I tracked down some...

This is a piece of code to deal with tabbed browing, it uses a CompositeControl to deal with creating the tabs and the views. The tabs are created using a simple table setup with the different td elements using different css classes to change the way...

Making a PaginatedRepeater in asp.net...

I discovered, while trying to use atlas contentpanels in my app, that the bits inside the atlas content panels are not loaded along with the normal load process. This means if you have a PageLoad event in your custom control and you try and set something...