January 2007 - Posts

Controlling Virtual Server through Microsoft PowerShell
22 January 07 01:26 PM

In his post by the same name , Ben describe a series of steps required in order to manipulate Virtual Server from PowerShell. I'm still a PowerShell novice, so I decided to use this problem as an opportunity to see if I could make things a little easier. Read More...

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export environment variables from CMD to PowerShell
17 January 07 04:52 PM

If you want to use PowerShell, but already have a CMD script that you want to keep, and that CMD script sets environment variables, you're in a pickle. Now I like pickles of all kinds, but Lee can help you get out of this one, with a script that exports Read More...

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random debugger tip: catching COM exceptions
17 January 07 04:25 PM

I was cleaning out some old mail and came across this tip. You can tell it was a long time ago, because it really only matters if you're writing COM objects, something I haven't done in a long, long time. Some parts of Visual Studio use COM as a layer Read More...

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Microsoft PowerShell is awesome
12 January 07 03:20 PM

At work I've been playing with Windows PowerShell . I could try to describe it, but Wikipedia has already done a better job: Windows PowerShell , previously Microsoft Shell or MSH ( codenamed Monad ) is an extensible command line interface (CLI) shell Read More...

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