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Fix that annoying issue where authentication windows appear behind your MCP client by implementing smarter window handle discovery. This walkthrough shows you how to properly parent WAM dialogs to VS Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients.

Learn how to authenticate local Model Context Protocol servers with Entra ID using Windows Web Account Manager (WAM). This practical guide shows how to implement interactive user authentication in local MCP servers without complex OAuth flows.

An outline of how you can extract icons from Windows binaries and dump them into a local folder.

As I was building OpenSpartan Workshop for Windows I needed the ability to convert a hexadecimal HTML color code to a SolidColorBrush object. Unlike with previous UI frameworks, WinUI 3 (which is what I use) doesn’t have a built-in construct for this kind of conversion. Naturally, I had to improvise.

A non-comprehensive list of tools embedded into Windows that can save you precious time and frustration.

I was recently setting up a new Windows machine for work - a desktop machine that actually has enough storage for me to run local SQL experimentation. I diligently followed the steps to create a bootable Windows 11 Enterprise USB, got the disks properly formatted, installed the OS, and tried to start customizing everything to my liking only to hit a brick wall.

We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product. And I am saying this as someone who wants Windows to succeed - it’s a great OS that, despite it’s naysayers, is still one of the best when it comes to backwards compatibility and richness of functionality. I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues.

How to make sure that your new tabs in Microsoft Edge are blank.

For some time, I needed a way to use caffeinate on Windows. If you are coming from macOS, you know how useful this utility can be when you want to keep the computer awake for some definite or indefinite time. So, following the engineer mindset, I decided to build my own, starting with a PowerShell script.

Getting an open source speech-to-text library up and running on one of the most popular operating systems.