In the Trenches

In Windows Vista, you'll be able to register property handlers on your own file types. This is in fact what my PDC Talk was all about. These property handlers are used to expose your file's contents to other parts of the system. They use a standard schema Read More...

I'd like as a baseline to briefly discuss some of the high-level concepts of the shell storage architecture. This topic is discussed in greater detail elsewhere (here too), but I'm going use more modern terminology and paint only a conceptual and perhaps more idealistic picture than actually exists. Read More...