Home Server Land is proud to announce an upcoming Windows Home Server add-in and service designed to help you discover and track useful add-ins right from within the Windows Home Server Console. Enhance your Windows Home Server experience by browsing for add-ins by category, keyword, or even by community rated popularity. Useful summaries, screenshots, and documentation links are provided to help guide your search. Once you've located an add-in that looks interesting, Add-in Central can automatically download it to your home server and help you along with a hassle-free installation process.
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With the exploding popularity of the Windows Home Server platform, both new add-ins and updated add-ins are being introduced to the community on a near daily basis. Add-in Central helps you keep track of them all by providing a list of all those newly released and newly updated add-ins in one convenient location. Once an add-in has been installed on your home server, how do you know that you always have the most recent version? Easy, Add-in Central does it all for you with its "Live Tracking" feature. Add-in Central notifies you whenever there is an update available for any of your installed add-ins, allowing you to rest easy knowing that you always have the latest and greatest version of your favorite add-ins.
Stay tuned to learn more about the features and beta availability.
I had the privilege of seeing early screenshots of this product. Personally I believe it will be the most successful add-in for HSL. Seriously. Content aggregation and ratings is very reminiscent of the idea behind the IPhone Appstore. Its this similarity that has me making bold predictions.
I have been waiting for something like this. Will it automatically download every addin or only specific ones? What about shareware and buyware items?
Very much interested in beta testing :)
No the one-click / auto download functionality will not be supported by every add-in. Add-in Central will make it easy to find and explore add-ins, jump to authors website or support forum, even possible to rate add-ins directly through the WHS console and more ;)
finally an add-in manager! I have been waiting for this and I cannot wait to beta test this. what a huge game changer this will finally be for the WHS community.
This stuff is right now whta we need. This is a must have application on the WHS. As the beta is to have please think of one of us for the test phase ;-). Go on with your work.
This looks really cool, can't wait to try it out.
A very exciting and long overdue project for the WHS Community. Will it have the ability to flag, notify or warn if there are possible conflicts with the OS Build, existing Add-Ins or other installed software on the Server?
I especially like the automated check whether an add-in is outdated or not. Keep on doing this great work guys. Highly appreciated!
Hi from Italy !
This is a great add-in !
I'm available for Italian translation .... And beta test !
Regards.
@BetaVirus,
Currently Add-in Central doesn't offer any type of conflict checking other than simply showing you a list of requirements for the add-in of interest. However, I could see a future build offering checks against the Power Pack and .NET framework versions installed on your WHS. As for conflicts with other installed add-ins/software, that would be a HUGE undertaking and so it would probably be best left for the author of each individual add-in to handle within their own installer package.
@Gian Luca Farina Perseu,
It would be great if you could help with Italian translations. Please send me an e-mail or private message to discuss this further at your earliest convenience.
Waiting for the BETA!!
How can an Addin Author support this Tool ?
@Pseudocode,
A utility will be made available for authors to submit new (or update existing) add-ins to the database. Please stay tuned for more information and availability.
I think this one will be a must have. I was looking for something like this. Can´t wait until it comes out.
Keep up the great work.
Kristjan
KUDOS it looks like a must have installed addin and I cant wait to test it out.