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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { IEnumerable<Inter1> ienum1 = new Class1[] { new Class1() }; foreach (Class2 c in ienum1) { Console.WriteLine(c); } } } ...

I was playing around with a recent update to Quest's PowerGUI (1.0.11.207) and I'm really liking how it's coming along (make sure to watch Jeffrey and Dmitry's video if you haven't already) I was kind of hoping that by now there would be a PowerGUI extension...

Had a fun time visiting with Chad this weekend. We played Halo 3 co-op and beat it a little faster than I expected and had a packed weekend including a party at Kate's house, Cowboys game, riding around in his convertible, etc. But the techie piece of...

I got an email from a co-worker asking a few questions about Orcas support for SQL named instances. Here's his questions and my answers: What is the syntax that you are supporting in TFSADMINUTIL renamedt? same as connection strings - hostname and hostname...

It came up during a conversation with a friend that I use IE7 at work as my browser even though it's mostly Firefox at home - this isn't because Firefox is forbidden internally (some use it and even mention so on their external blogs, especially for testing...

Some of my former jobs involved doing java development in Eclipse. One thing I missed when joining Microsoft and using Visual Studio was the "Organize Imports" that Eclipse had. While reading ScottGu's blog today, I noticed that Orcas now has it ! Yay...

I was reading a man page today... If netcat makes you rich somehow and you're feeling generous, mail me a check. If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network, get a life . Always ski in control. I work at Microsoft, although not in MSN. Am...

As Batman and Robin announced , Beta2 is out. This is especially super crazy exciting (or maybe just super super exciting ?) for my team since it's the first TFS release that includes our work on the new TFS setup . Since it was such a huge pain point...

Today I happened to hit the offline mode dialog in Orcas, albeit unintentionally:

On an internal mailing list about PowerShell, the question came up how to test a set of url's to see which ones are still "valid" (meaning you can still access them successfully). Since I thought my answer may be useful to others externally as well, I...

TFS supports many different authentication scenarios. One of them is the "workgroup mode" where there is no Active Directory domain involved at all, and the users are all using the Windows workgroup authentication mechanism where if the account names...

This post is just so I can paste a URL instead of the same block of text again and again in the forums :) There's 2 purposes to finding the log files during/after a failed install: Inspect them yourself to see if you can figure out how to fix the problem...

This is not a great dialog experience :) Do I want to have this dialog close my OS? :) This was while I was running an internal tool, so hopefully this doesn't happen (much) for customers, but I found it funny :)

Since it's coming up on 2 years since I complained that the BCL didn't have Set<T> I figured I might as well make sure people know about HashSet<T> in the upcoming Orcas BCL . Now, I hate the name both because it collides with the same name...

I tend to send a lot of text output from shells in my emails, and rather than do so as screen shots, I send the text. Of course, many times there's formatting involved (like PowerShell output, of course), so I need to change that to a fixed-width font...

I'll take care of the warnings - anyone else want to fix the errors?

In a script I was writing, I was using set-content to put a particular string (just one string) into a file. The file was consistently 2 bytes longer than I expected. Since it was adding a newline, I asked how I could get it to not add the newline since...

Couple things I needed to do today - you can see how they were much simpler thanks to a couple of cmdlets I had written in the past: delete shelvesets I didn't need any more. Since I only wanted to keep a few that I had made today, I just...

Things I've stumbled across: connecting to a SQL Server database engine instance on a port can be done via hostname,1234 - in most cases you can't use hostname:port You can use SQL client aliases to create an alias so "foo" can transparently redirect...

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...