parental-control

Vista Parental Controls causing Socket Exception?

I got a strange bug report the other day and was hoping someone might be able to help me figure out the culprit. I've got a plug-in that uses the Facebook API to make calls from a desktop client program. A user reports that when he turns on Vista's Parental Controls, he gets a run-time exception. The detailed bug report is available her...

Filtering Internet Requests on Windows OS

I am interested in writing a parental control filter that can be used to monitor and/or redirect all outbound internet requests on a Window desktop OS (Vista or higher). I'd like the filter itself to have unrestricted internet access so it can access a web service on the internet during application/browser requests. For approved traffi...

C# Samples for Windows Parental Controls API

Can anyone point me to some C# samples for the Windows Parental Controls API. I want to add some functionality that will allow a user to set the duration their child can be logged on in a day. I want to do this as a F/OSS app so that others can benefit from this too. Cheers. ...

How write a Parental Control Provider for user account protection and monitoring for Windows Vista/7?

The blog entry (Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls) talks about assigning providers to user accounts for protecting and monitoring user accounts. Can someone please point me to an MSDN article on how to write such a provider? (I Googled and I guess I wasn't entering the correct search terms because I couldn find much.) Hopeful...