Media And Microcode

Today I learned a little bit about how to get to some of the data stored within special shell folders.  You can get a list of all of the easy-to-get-to special folders here .  I noticed one folder in particular that a bunch of systems administrators...

A nifty trick that you can do in WPK is create a WPF progress bar to show the Write-Progress output from a PowerShell script.  I was reminded that people actually wanted to do this when I ran across a question on StackOverflow, and posted this answer...

The Integrated Scripting Environment has many things: A rich debugger, a nifty object model,  and support for multiple runspaces, but it doesn’t have spell check.  Since I end up writing a lot of documentation in the ISE for my functions, I...

The 2nd video about WPK just hit Channel9.  The first video was a video walk thru of How to Write User Interfaces with WPK , and this video walks thru How to Write a Multitouch FingerPaint with WPK . Enjoy, James Brundage [MSFT]

I’ve been hearing a lot of questions recently about what things you can do with advanced functions.  People seem to be aching for good examples of using PowerShell V2 functions, and, since I’ve discovered a few handy tricks for advanced functions...

MSDN has tons of examples about XAML. Nearly everything in WPF has an example in XAML, but not all of these XAML examples actually reference the namespace that is required for this Xaml to be loadable by WPF. It's still valid XML, just not valid XAML...

Photosynth is a really cool product out of live labs.  It's sort of an uber photo collage application.  It takes photos taken from different people, at different resolutions and different times, and collects them into a 3d view of a location...

My interview with the PowerScripting Podcast is now online.  Check it out: http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/episode-55-jeff-hicks-in-for-hal-and-an-interview-with-james-brundage/ Hope this helps, James Brundage [MSFT]

I’m going to be doing a PowerScripting Podcast tonight @ 9PM EST.  There’s a live chat room where you can ask questions and pick the brains of a tester / avid scripter on the PowerShell team. It should be fun.  I hope to see your questions there...

I love my news.  For whatever reason, I find catching up on the world to be one of the most relaxing and rewarding things you can do in your spare time.  Even though I like to read the news, I rarely read a physical newspaper or magazine or...

As I said in a previous post, I've started to explore the wild world of XNA . XNA just released version 3, which allows you to make games for Windows, Xbox, and Zune. The SDK is free, and you can download it here . The last post introduced Get-Font ,...

I've started to explore the wild world of XNA . XNA just released version 3, which allows you to make games for Windows, Xbox, and Zune. The SDK is free, and you can download it here . It comes with a nifty little platformer game (think a 3-screen Super...

Benko just posted a Visual Studio Tips & Tricks listing.  It's missing on of my favorites, which a coworker on the PowerShell team, Ibrahim Abdul Rahim, showed me: In a couple of circumstances, you'll see a red squiggle (like a syntax error)...

It’s the weekend.  I love my video games, and I really love my xBox 360.  I’ve had one since just after they first came out, and I’ve slowly but surely accumulated about 70 physical games for the 360 made by major producers.  I remember...

The first post in this series was learning to crawl. I introduced Get-Web , which allows you to use System.Net.Webclient to download web sites in a variety of ways. The next post was learning to walk. I showed us Get-MarkupTag , which helps coerce parts...

The first post about scripting the was a lot of waxing philosophical but little about how to extract data and give it form. There are several approaches, with various difficulties. I could build a full HTML parser and walk though object models, or I could...

Several of the last posts have tackled how to take the wild world of data and start to turn it into PowerShell objects, so that it’s easier to make heads or tails out of it.  Once all of that data is in a form that PowerShell can use more effectively...

I recently did two different "in depth" posts.  One on The Joy Of Hashtables and another on Select-Object versus Add-Member .  At the end of Select-Object vs Add-Member, I hinted at more convenient ways to write objects that used Script...

PowerShell is full of nice little touches. While some of these touches are easy to run across, like Get-Command and Get-Help, there are also a lot of little ones that are very small changes that make working with some parts of PowerShell (and .NET) a...

As I've said a number of times before, PowerShell's quantum leap forward is something called the Object Pipeline.  It allows you to take the results of one command and easily use them with the next, which means that each command you create becomes...

PowerShell's an amazing glue language.   It can help you bring code from all corners of the earth into one environment, and then you can custom the code to be more to your liking.  While the last several entries of my blog have spent time...

In a previous post, I introduced a function called Get-Type , which allows you to see all of the types currently loaded by .NET.  What it doesn't do is help you find assemblies, the DLL files containing new types.  So while there might be 19000...

My browsing time is split into about 2 chunks: reading news and reading documentation (a woefully slim portion goes to just surfing).  While most of the time, this blog talks about the various results of deep dives into dev documentation, I'd like...

There's a simple yet powerful function that nearly everyone on the PowerShell team has written a version of.  My version is called Get-Type.  It's only a one-liner, but it's an amazing way to explore .NET and it's also an amazing example of...

Both WPF and PowerShell are both full of great little touches. One of WPF's nice touches is Routed Events . Routed Events allow you to capture events raised by child controls or parent controls. This can be incredibly useful, because it allows you write...