This article presents the Windows 7 Federated Search Provider and how you can use. I have created one for my blog which you might have noticed in my download area befor e. Feel free to use it on your own Windows 7 PC to search my blog from there.       The MSDN defines Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Windows 7 introduces support for search federation to remote data stores using OpenSearch technologies. Federated search...

Well you might have heared of it a tool from a Russian programmer where you can validate your windows seven product key. Be careful! The tool itself was written in Delphi and so it was easy to look at it a little deeper. Well from what I’ve found I can say it’s sending your windows product key to a server on the net! However I found it interesting how the validating process is done. So again research on the net and with the mentioned...

Well, a few months ago I searched MSDN for some API’s which could be interesting to me. I stumbled over the Windows Search API which I found really interesting since it gives you the possibility to programmatically search for files, in your emails or specific folders on your local drive.     Windows Search is a standard component of Windows Vista enabled by default and an add-in for Microsoft Windows XP which allows instant...

This article presents the Windows Update Agent API and how you can use it in Delphi.I made a demo that actually handles the most important parts of the API like searching for updates, downloading and installing these updates on your machine. You can download the sources (early demo) at the Jedi Svn the links are provided at the end of this article. If you want to download an executable demo you can do it in the download...