While emailing back and forth with Keith tonight (ok, well, this morning in EDT, but he's in Colorado, so it kinda counts), I stumbled across a thought that clicked in my brain (I was talking about PowerShell, of course) It feels very much like TiVo to...

I've had a couple of co-workers that noticed their "get" calls to sync their workspaces running a bit slower - while it's running, the thing I find easiest is to scan for port 8081 traffic, since that's the port the VC proxy tends to run on. There's lots...

Don't get me wrong, I love C#, but PowerShell's built-in support for WMI is so nice. Even not using [wmi] (or wmiclass, or wmisearcher, etc.) and just get-wmiobject 's -query, it's so concise and nice. Today's example snippets should be relatively obvious...

On my birthday (Feb 15th), I got some great news that I haven't been able to share publicly until today. Longhorn Server (as of Beta3) will include PowerShell ! Also included: Quest Software announced further development of two new free products that...

When our last divisional email from Joe came out this past Friday, it turns out I was #1 in DevDiv and #3 in Microsoft overall in the MSDN forums with 219 answers in the last 30 days. A lot of that was thanks to my 4-month-old son and his (nocturnal)...

This came up on an internal mailing list and I thought others may find it interesting. Here was my response. You’re confusing the foreach keyword with the foreach-object cmdlet – Bruce’s book does an excellent job discussing the differences. “continue...

There's been about a thousand (give or take) forum posts asking for branching advice, so I'm happy to see this whitepaper is now available on codeplex and I can just respond to such requests with this url. :) Make sure to thank Mario for his work on this...

A slight modification of Mike's version , since sometimes I want md5, sometimes sha1, whatever, and I happen to like the '-' separators :) I think sha256 makes a good default, though. The other differences are style related and just my personal preference...

It's currently in the collection as get-tfsstatus.ps1 which has caused confusion since it doesn't act like "tf status", but it's intended to run on your app tier and gather some config settings - I use it to confirm the right things have changed when...

Forum thread was asking for this (admittedly, in C#). Since it's less typing in PowerShell, that's what I'll post instead :) It'll be in the next update to the PowerShell scripts , along with a version of get-tfs.ps1 that figures out the tfs instance...

Know-a-Code posts up a neat little VS add-in that lets you do a free-text search on your work items ! Well, not strictly, but pretty close. It looks very usable. I'm glad to see it since the IFilter and Lucene.Net approaches to WI searching have been...

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