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Calling Vista's TaskDialog API

Calling the TaskDialog API from FoxPro (in Vista build 5308) turned out to be a bit harder than Craig Boyd makes it sound but once it emerged that the string parameters have to be manually null-terminated and converted to Unicode it became much easier
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Connecting to WinRM with Windows Vista

Windows Vista (currently RC1, build 5536) ships with WinRM installed but the service is only started automatically on Longhorn Server: if you want to use WinRM on Vista the service has to be started manually. Whether this is still the case in the final
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Windows Remote Management (WinRM) part 1

Windows Server 2003 Release 2 (WS2003R2) and Windows Vista introduce a new variety of firewall-friendly remote server management, Windows Remote Management (WinRM), an implementation of the Web Services for Management specification. Instead of marshalling
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