After several false starts, I finally decided it's time to figure out why the browser ink controls haven't been working on TabletPCBlogs. You can't ink in Community Server, nor does the SearchTIP work anymore. I'm not sure what caused the problem, the updates to Community Server or the updates to IE.
Anyway, here's what I've found so far. Turns out that I can get ink to work in the SearchTIP if I migrate the code up to .NET 2.0. If you have .NET 2.0 on your Tablet PC you can try the SearchTIP by clicking here. (You may need to change your Internet Options to allow ActiveX controls, but you should not need to set the site as a Trusted Site anymore--that was fixed by going to .NET 2.0.) Actually, I haven't had much luck with the search TIP when running IE 6. All seems to be OK within IE 7 running in Vista or using the lastest IE 7 for Windows XP. (I did notice a bug if you drag the IE 7 window around and then try to write. Seems like the move window message isn't being propogated to the control. Not sure why.) Let me know if it works for you in IE 6.
Now I realize most everyone out there doesn't have the .NET Framework 2.0, so I've temporarily put a 1.1 version of the SearchTIP up on TabletPCPost. What? I said the code wasn't working in 1.1? That's right. This code wasn't working when it was on the TabletPCBlogs server, but it seems to be working just fine on TabletPCPost. You will have to add TabletPCPost.com as a trusted site, however within Internet Explorer (Select Tools | Internet Options | Settings | Trusted Sites and then add TabletPCBlogs.com). I haven't figured out how to get around this yet.
There's something odd about that Community Server configuration so I still can't get the rest of the ink working. At least the SearchTIP is working again.
Let me know if you run into further problems with either SearchTIP.....and yes, I realize I need to add more flexibility in which search engines are used :-)


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