David_Bennett
I am on the Windows Vista Parental controls team, working on the next version of windows and specifically the parental controls aspects of it. I worked on the web filter, and many other aspects of the system from the control panel up.
Australian Government and Parental Controls
It is interesting that the Australian Government is getting into the act on releasing a free web...
Date: 08/23/2007
Meringue
A tip when making Meringue is to use a teaspoon of vinegar (or lemon juice, something acidic) in the...
Date: 08/23/2007
Taking Responsability for your Code
A co-worker (Kyle Olson) came up with a list of items about how to take responsability for your code...
Date: 04/23/2007
Kurt Vonnegut died
On April the 11th Kurt Vonnegut died, one of my favourite authors. He wrote amazing books and short...
Date: 04/13/2007
Apple (uk) ad targeting Parental Controls
Just wandering around on you tube and discovered an apple (uk) ad targeting parental controls, with...
Date: 04/10/2007
Reading WPC logs in C#
Here is a conversion of the WPCEvents.h file that is used with the vista SDK to get the parts of the...
Date: 03/30/2007
Log Viewer, behind the scenes
The log viewer in Parental Controls reads in the public available system logs and turns them into...
Date: 03/02/2007
Parental Controls used by everyone
Looks like Bill Gates is using parental controls for his children these days, nice to see that...
Date: 02/21/2007
A tale of Two Cockies
This is a nifty site with an interesting story.
Date: 02/21/2007
Parental Controls and Press Coverage
We have had a lot of good press coverage from Parental Controls over the past few days, which has...
Date: 02/09/2007
Making a Game marked as run in Parental Controls
For a game to show up in Parental Controls as being run a few things need to happen. First the game...
Date: 02/02/2007
Overwhelmingness of Parental Controls?
There have been some comments about various aspects of Parental Controls being overwhelming,...
Date: 01/30/2007
HTTP Extension for Windows Parental Controls
To make Windows Parental Controls work better with browsers and other programs that support http,...
Date: 01/29/2007
Opening up the WPC Control Panel from the command line
It is possible to open up the windows parental controls control panel from the command line, well...
Date: 01/23/2007
Different exclusion lists
There are 4 different exclusion lists in Windows Parental Controls that are used to control which...
Date: 01/19/2007
Parental Controls on a Domain
It is possible to turn on parental controls if your machine is on a domain, but default it is...
Date: 01/12/2007
Adding a URL Exemption in c#
The system contains a list of applications which are exempted from parental controls. This list can...
Date: 01/05/2007
DataBind and Multiviews
If you are using a multiview in asp to display a bunch of different pieces of information, for...
Date: 12/22/2006
GDF Xml file format
The GDF file is an xml file associated with games in vista. The file gives information about the...
Date: 11/17/2006
How to turn on debug exceptions with WCF
It is possible to see exceptions passed back in the messages sent to the service. This makes it a...
Date: 11/13/2006
Tabbed menu system for asp.net
This is a piece of code to deal with tabbed browing, it uses a CompositeControl to deal with...
Date: 11/13/2006
ROW_NUMBER() and asp.net
I was looking around at ways to optimise asp.net over the last few days and ran across this article...
Date: 11/11/2006
FileVersionInfo - getting the FileDescription in C#
Getting the file description in C# requires using the VerQueryInfo calls to load in the data from...
Date: 10/31/2006
.net Binding for WPC Events
The WPC event system logs a series of events to the WPC crimson channel. The channel contents is...
Date: 10/26/2006
Using RatingSystem WMI in Parental Controls
Windows Parental Controls exposes a RatingSystem class that can be used to find all the rating...
Date: 10/02/2006
Atlas, ContentPanel and controls
I discovered, while trying to use atlas contentpanels in my app, that the bits inside the atlas...
Date: 09/28/2006
PaginatedRepeater in asp.net
The Paginated repeater is an extension of the standard repeater to add in pagination capabilities....
Date: 09/15/2006
Showing the Windows Parental Controls system settings.
There are a few elements of information you can get out of the system settings for WPC, allowing you...
Date: 09/08/2006
Hidden blocked items in Windows Parental Controls
When you install parental controls on vista there are a few hidden items that are not displayed in...
Date: 09/01/2006
How to log a crimson event to the custom log (for parental controls)
Now that you have setup a custom event using WMI, you can log to it. Remember that you need to be...
Date: 08/28/2006
Using Custom Events in Windows Parental Controls
Any extension you add to Parental can log custom events, well any application can log custom events....
Date: 08/18/2006
Reading in Crimson Logs
Crimson logs can be read in through c# by use of some bindings to the APIs. Crimson is a new logging...
Date: 03/24/2006
Windows Parental Controls
I have not blogged for a while, I just recently moved teams and now I am working on WIndows Parental...
Date: 08/29/2005
Problems installing .net framework 1.1
I had a bunch of problems reinstalling .net framework 1.1, it kept coming with an internal error...
Date: 07/12/2005
Converting XML to RTF using .net
It is quite easy to convert XML into RTF, well to turn it into fairly simple rtf output anyway. The...
Date: 06/29/2005
Setting a ToolTip on a TreeView control
A TreeView control in WinForms does not have a tooltip associated with and each node definately...
Date: 06/21/2005
.net Beta 1 and .net beta 2
Here is a list of a few changes I ran across when changing my code from beta 1 to beta 2. The...
Date: 06/06/2005
FaultContract in Indigo
FaultContract is an attribute that can be defined on the ServiceContract to define faults sent...
Date: 06/03/2005
Duplex calls in indigo beta 1
There are two things you need to remember when making a duplex contract under indigo beta 1, the...
Date: 05/13/2005
Different types of InstanceModes and ConcurrencyModes inside Indigo
Indigo has five different types of instances modes than be used inside the system. The default...
Date: 04/21/2005
Visual Studio 2005 - beta 2
Visual studio 2005 beta 2 has just been released: https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/ Improves a...
Date: 04/18/2005
Using the IsTerminating and IsInitiating flags in Indigo
Indigo has the ability to mark specific methods on a contract as being initiating or terminating...
Date: 04/15/2005
Creating a custom instance of a Service inside Indigo
When you setup an Indigo service in the default way, it is not possible to use anything other than...
Date: 04/14/2005
MaxConnections standard bindings and throttling
Throttling and the standard bindings inside the Indigo CTP allow you to set and control the maximum...
Date: 04/09/2005
Man in Stolen Camel Suit
From the news item "A man who had a camel costume removed from his checked-in luggage at Sydney...
Date: 04/08/2005
AppDomain and ConfigurationFile's
After a bit of messing around when trying to make my own app domain I discovered that if you set the...
Date: 04/08/2005
Extending RichTextBox part II - Underlining
The RichTextBox com control actually supports changing the underline style and colour, however the...
Date: 04/06/2005
Extending RichTextBox
RichTextBox inside .net winforms is a useful component, however it does not allow you to control and...
Date: 04/06/2005