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DeCaf on June 2nd, 2011

It has been a long time since AlphaVSS 1.0 Beta was first released. A little over two years to be precise. The original plan was of course to go from beta to final in a month or two, but for reasons I’ve rambled way too much about already that didn’t happen. So it is now [...]

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When I started developing AlphaVSS and AlphaFS I was in the final stages of my Master Thesis project at Chalmers Univeristy, and looking for a job. This meant I had a whole lot of spare time, and development of these two libraries progressed quite quickly. In November 2008 I got a job as a developer [...]

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DeCaf on April 13th, 2009

AlphaVSS and AlphaFS are now both in version 1.0 Beta. For more information see the respective pages on codeplex. AlphaVSS on CodePlex AlphaFS on CodePlex

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DeCaf on November 29th, 2008

AlphaVSS provides a managed .NET interface to the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, making it possible to conveniently access and use the VSS API from within eg. C# or VB. AlphaFS is a .NET library providing more complete Win32 file system functionality to the .NET platform than the standard System.IO classes. Features highlights: creating hardlinks, [...]

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DeCaf on August 23rd, 2008

AlphaVSS provides a managed .NET interface to the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, making it possible to conveniently access and use the VSS API from within eg. C# or VB. New in this release is the support for Windows XP as well as Windows Vista (and later). To compile against Windows XP, you must use [...]

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DeCaf on August 20th, 2008

AlphaFS now also has a project page, trac and subversion repository. The project page is available at http://trac.assembla.com/alphafs The subversion repository can be found at http://svn.assembla.com/svn/alphafs or browsed online at http://trac.assembla.com/alphafs/browser. Comments (on this page) and bug reports (in the form of a new ticket at the trac) are more than welcome.

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DeCaf on August 20th, 2008

A project page, Trac and Subversion repository has been created for AlphaVSS on Assembla which is a nice service providing free software project hosting. If you have any bug-reports or feature requests, please create a new ticket on the Trac. If you want to check out the library, I recommend getting the sources from the [...]

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DeCaf on August 18th, 2008

New versions of both of the above libraries have been released.

AlphaVSS is a library providing a managed interface to the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service API.
AlphaFS is a library providing more of the functions of the native Windows File- and Volume-management API to .NET.

Continue reading about New Releases: AlphaVSS 0.6.0 & AlphaFS 0.3.1

The file system support in .NET is pretty good for most uses. However there are a few shortcomings, which this library tries to alleviate. The most notable deficiency of the standard .NET file system support was discovered in my attempts to work with the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) (See my previous posts). VSS [...]

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DeCaf on August 17th, 2008

Fixed a small bug (with large consequences) where a non-null value was interpreted as null and vice versa.  For more information about AlphaVSS, see AlphaVSS – Bringing Windows Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to .NET. If you use the library and find it useful, have comments, find bugs or just have anything to say about it, [...]

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