The using statement is very handy in keeping your code clean and letting you concentrate on your business logic. Be careful however, especially when employing it while trying to get rid of CA2000 warnings (Dispose objects before losing scope) . Never...

Life is full of surprises. Some are good, some are bad. When it comes to software though, surprises are usually a bad thing. Case in point: Unhandled Exceptions. A good programmer uses try-catch clauses to cover dangerous/problematic areas of the code...

In continuation to my previous post , I've been working lately on fixes to my PowerShell indentation and they are finally complete. Right now it looks like everything is indented correctly and i've uploaded the new version (2.0) to vim.org site. I had...

I've been writing my PowerShell scripts in VIM for a while now. I've downloaded the syntax, ftplugin and indent scripts from vim site but I've found one annoying problem. The original ps1.vim indent script was mostly a stub that assumed PowerShell indentation...

Regular expressions are full of surprises. Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, out comes a “what if I want to do this, but also that and match these but not those” - and the worse thing is that it is usually my idea in the first place! So here’s...

This article was originally published here .   Introduction If you’ve been working with PowerShell for registry access, you’ve probably noticed by now that something is missing. PowerShell has two registry “drives” defined: HKLM for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

Well, at least on my computers. I’ve been using Google as my search engine for an eternity now. Frankly, I don’t even remember what came before that. It was that long ago. Of course, being the Microsoft enthusiast that I am - I gave live.com a ping now...

Introduction I have many PowerShell scripts and functions lying around, some are preloaded in my profile, some I just use from time to time and can be found in PowerShell’s folder on one of my computers. Every time I am faced with a computer...

This article was originally published here . What is a “debugger visualizer”? Here’s a direct quote from MSDN: A visualizer creates a dialog box or other interface to displays a variable or object in a meaningful way that is appropriate to its data type...

The story behind this post Last week I ran into an interesting bug at work. We were extracting icons on one windows machine and saving them on an another windows machine as part of one of our features. This was a mechanism developed a while ago and it...

The unwritten (but carefully upheld) rules of resizing the console window via a PowerShell script....

Writing the first post in my blog as "Hello World" became a habit, which probably means I should stop moving blogs all the time. That said, I'm happy to open my brand new spanking MSDN blog. It's just a move from one Microsoft site to another (more...