Yesterday, I took a look at the varying perspectives taken with regards to the Zune 30 debacle. Today, I’ll take a look at what exactly led the Zune 30s to freeze. If you’d like to see the code for the entire driver, click here.

Below the fold lies a sufficiently sized code sample with everything you’ll need to understand what happened with the Zune 30 bug.

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Following the first part of the Tweak DWM from your programs series, we are going to explore the actual usage of the Desktop Window Manager API in a Windows Forms-based program. The test application–included in the source package–also makes use of GlassBar, an extension to the existing control set.
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With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a whole new window manager which provides a better experience to the user and an independent graphics surface to us developers by taking advantage of graphics acceleration hardware (your graphics card or integrated GPU).

In a three-part blog post, I will show you how to use a wrapper around the Desktop Window Manager Application Programming Interface in order to control its state, change colorization, or change the rendering policy of windows from your Windows Forms and .NET 3 Presentation Foundation programs.

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After I released the System Tray tile for the Sidebar, I’ve had quite a lot of PMs and emails regarding interacting with the tray from .Net. So I’ve written this short tutorial for you all to go through to help with any difficulties you might have been having. It’s written with C# source code.

How to work with the System Tray from .Net (PDF)