Cunningly conquering communicated console caveats. Comprende, mon Capitán?

Consoling oneself with TrueType

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:40 GMT

It was not quite a year ago, in Myth busting in the console , where Myth #12 was:

Myth #12: You can

It's ultimately your call, but your PowerShell cmdlets really don't need to SUCK this much

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:02:12 GMT

I remember years ago, when the groundswell of opinion that wanted a replacement for CMD.EXE found itself

Myth busting in the console

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:41:57 GMT

I have been writing about internationalization and the console off and on for over five years now, and

Bugs hidden in plain sight, and commented that way too ANSWERS

Sorting it all Out — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:04:03 GMT

In the spirit of BUG SPOTTING answers , today's blog will talk about the problems in Bugs hidden in plain

Bugs hidden in plain sight, and commented that way too

Sorting it all Out — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:42:04 GMT

In my time working in windows, I have seen a lot of different code. As begets any project of this size

re: Cunningly conquering communicated console caveats. Comprende, mon Capitán?

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:44:08 GMT

Ok, I take that back, the logic was reversed. Fixed now....

re: Cunningly conquering communicated console caveats. Comprende, mon Capitán?

Random832 — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13:54 GMT

That code. It (well, translated back to C) seems to give the opposite results to what it should, and it doesn't make logical sense - wouldn't an invalid handle error from a console-only function mean it _is_ redirected?

Also - what about pipes - not so much in terms of how to detect whether you're in a pipe [that's obvious enough once you have the filetype], but rather how do they fit into the whole unicode thing?

re: Cunningly conquering communicated console caveats. Comprende, mon Capitán?

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:03:14 GMT

Is what right?

re: Cunningly conquering communicated console caveats. Comprende, mon Capitán?

Random832 — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:36:27 GMT

Is this right? IsConsoleRedirected()...

if (filetype == FILE_TYPE_CHAR) {

bool retval = GetConsoleMode(stdout, out mode);

if ((retval == false) && (Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() == ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE)) {

return false;

} else {

return true;

}

} else {

return false;

}