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Vista Controls is a class library that provides the ability to use the new style controls on Microsoft Windows Vista.

.NET 2.0 applications that use the Treeview, Listview, OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog and FolderBrowserDialog classes provided in the System.Windows.Forms assembly will find that when they run on Windows Vista, they do not use the new, Vista-style look and feel, but instead continue to use the old, XP-style look and feel.

In Vista Controls you will find five replacement classes, that will use the Vista look and feel when running on Windows Vista, and the old style on older versions of Windows. This allows you to target both Windows Vista and other versions of Windows without any additional effort on your part.

Additionally, Vista Controls includes a new control added to Vista, the Command Link. Because this control doesn't exist in previous versions of Windows, an emulated version that mimics Vista look and feel is used on those Windows versions.

This article is about getting controls found in Windows Vista to make use of the new Windows Vista user interface. Included in the project are some components (Commandlinks, ImageButton, SplitButton) that work just like the Windows Vista themed controls. The article would aim to achieve most of the interface effects (like the fade-in/out) effects seen throughout Windows Vista.

Managed wrapper for accessing the Vista Core Audio API

This month Keith Brown digs into the new eventing system in Windows Vista, Windows Eventing 6.0.

Vista-like TaskDialog control for .NET Framework 2.0, compatible with Windows XP

A Vista style Progress Bar complete with color property and animation

The Cryptography API: Next Generation(CNG) is a new and agile framework in Windows Vista, which implements an extensible provider model that allows you to load a provider by specifying the required cryptographic algorithm rather than having to hardcode a specific provider.

The advantage is that an algorithm provider can be replaced or upgraded and you will not have to change your code in any way to use the new provider. Also, if some algorithm is determined to be unsafe in the future, a more secure version of that algorithm can be installed with no effect to your code. To facilitate this, you load a CNG provider by identifying the cryptographic algorithm that you require, not the specific provider. Most of the CNG APIs require a provider or an object created by a provider.

In this article, I try to describe the new security feature Cryptography API: Next Generation(CNG) and compare it with an RSA and AES samples, both managed and unmanaged, using "Crypto API" (CAPI before Vista) and how it can be implemented using CNG in Windows Vista. Managed version of CNG is yet to come, if you feel like you want more, wait for the next release of Visual Studio "Orcas".

A demonstration class for adding Application Recovery to your Windows Vista C# application.

The included Sophia project is intended to be both instructive and fun. It is, at the most basic level, a chatterbox application with speech synthesis and speech recognition tacked on to it.

This article provides an overview of the various features of the GrammarBuilder class, including how to build increasingly sophisticated recognition rules. I will go over some tricks for making the bot personality appear more lifelike. I will also try to unravel some of the issues involving deploying an SR application to Windows XP rather than deploying to Vista. This article will also highlight some of the other gotchas you might encounter while working with the Vista managed Speech API. Finally, it will demonstrate an extensible design that allows multiple speech recognition applications to run together at the same time.

This article tells you how to draw text and pictures correctly on your vista form's extended glass area