January 2007 - Posts
PowerShell puts the fun back in scripting and it's horrfying but every now and again I'm forced to write a good old batch script. Batch is good enough to get most jobs done it's just not as "fun" as PowerShell. Recently it came up in an internal alias
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Writing a proper serialization mechanism is ofter very difficult. The problem is most people don't realize this because it just works in their application and .Net makes it very easy to do. A lot of the problem is not understanding what factors you need
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Web Application projects are a new project type in Visual Studio 2005 SP1. It almost all of the niceties of the web projects with the semantics of being contained within a class library project. I like the feel of them and do all of my web app development
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An item I try to avoid in any API I create are methods which ... Take more than one parameter One of the parameters is a boolean Typically this pattern indicates a True/False option on an operation type. This boolean value turns on or off some type of
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Here's a handy PowerShell function I used to determine if I'm currently running as an Administrator in PowerShell # Determine if I am running as an Admin function AmIAdmin() { $ident = [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent() foreach ( $groupIdent
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Scripts often need to dynamically find out what directory they are executed from. In CMD scripts this is done by %~dp0. For powershell the following will do the trick. split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition When this is run anywhere in
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When developing an ASP.Net page I tend to pass a lot of data between pages. A lot of it comes from being fairly OO natured and wanting to have a page that displays a particular type of content. There are lots of articles detailing how to pass data between
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When deveploping windows forms app, it's important to understand the event lifecycle of a form. That way you know what code to put where to ensure it's loaded at the appropriate time. That being said I wrote a small app to detail the events in a basic
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