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February 2007 - Posts

• Automating signtool.exe (or how to make a PFX file from a PVK and SPC file!)

  It is often desirable to automate the process of using signtool.exe to digitally sign compatible files (for example .cab, .msi, .exe, .dll, .ocx) for distribution. If you signed up with a certificate provider such as Verisign and went through the somewhat Read More... Posted 19 February 2007 08:13 by Stuart.Preston | 3 Comments

• Live Departure Boards sidebar gadget for Vista - v0.8 released

  After the overwhelming interest shown in my Live Departure Boards sidebar gadget for Vista hobby/demo project (thanks for all your comments so far), I grabbed a couple of hours this weekend to implement some bug fixes as follows: Departures are now shown Read More... Posted 11 February 2007 19:44 by Stuart.Preston | 6 Comments Filed under: Vista, Gadget, Development, Sidebar, Live Departure Boards, DHTML, UK, Trains

• Live Departure Boards UK sidebar gadget demo for Vista

  I started to look at Vista sidebar gadgets around the time that Beta 2 went public (back in May 2006). At that time the sidebar itself was pretty buggy - often requiring a complete restart to pick up any changes made to the gadget, and there was no proper Read More... Posted 01 February 2007 23:29 by Stuart.Preston | 12 Comments Filed under: Vista, Gadget, Development, Sidebar, Live Departure Boards, DHTML, UK, Trains