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Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:06 AM

Quick Creation of Text Files From the Command Line

It's a sunny day here in the Seattle area, so let's have some command line fun. :) Have you ever needed to create a small text file while working at a command line? I've been using the following technique since my MS-DOS days. Creating files at the command
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:59 PM

What was that cool thing you just did? - Addendum: Clearing the command history

I was at a retirement party recently when, as often happens, talk turned to the "old days". I was talking to one of the attendees about doskey and how useful it still is. He asked, "Have you ever used Alt+F7 ?". I had to admit that I hadn't. When I got
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:36 PM

Saving time when navigating directories at the Command Prompt using pushd and popd

It's been a little while since I posted one of my favorite command line 'tricks'... Windows XP (NT/2000/2003/etc) has two commands (pushd and popd) that save me huge amounts of time when navigating my machine's file system from a Command Prompt window.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:12 PM

What was that cool thing you just did?

Back when I started at Microsoft, the big product was MS-DOS 5. Of all the features in MS-DOS 5, my hands down favorite (and one I still use today) was DosKey. You remember DosKey... It was the utility that made F7 one of the most useful keys on your
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:55 PM

Building a simple NetCF application from the command line - VB.NET version

A couple of weeks ago, I promised to post the VB.NET equivalent to my C# command line example . Today, I'm going to show you how to do the same thing with the VB.NET command line compiler. In the C# post, I suggested adding the following environment variable
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:21 PM

Building a simple NetCF application from the command line - C# version

Now that NetCF is part of the .NET Framework v2 SDK, I get asked how to build applications using the command line tools. Today I'm going to show how to build a simple (single source file) C# application using csc.exe. For more complicated applications
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