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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:07 AM

Microcode: PowerShell + XNA: New-SpriteFont

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 ,
Posted by JamesBrundage | 1 Comments
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:33 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: 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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 1 Comments
Friday, December 12, 2008 9:59 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting the Web (Part 3) (Resolve-Link, Get-WebPageLink)

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 1 Comments
Monday, December 08, 2008 8:17 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting The Web (Part 2) (Get-MarkupTag)

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 5 Comments
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Monday, December 01, 2008 3:13 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting The Web (Part 1) (Get-Web)

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 5 Comments
Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:10 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: More Joy of Hashtables (with Get-HashtableAsObject)

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 2 Comments
Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:01 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: The Joy of using Hashtables with Windows PowerShell

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 4 Comments
Saturday, November 08, 2008 12:46 AM

Microcode: Exploring More of .NET with Get-Assembly

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-odd
Posted by JamesBrundage | 3 Comments
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:16 PM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks - Exploring .NET Types with a Get-Type function and Reflection

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 4 Comments
Monday, October 20, 2008 1:12 AM

Microcode: Scripting Tricks : Exploring WPF Routed Events with PowerShell

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
Posted by JamesBrundage | 0 Comments
Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:44 AM

Microcode: All About Modules (Windows PowerShell CTP2)

In a previous post , I showed you how you can debug Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers in Visual Studio and load them up without using installutil.exe. This very briefly touched on using the command Add-Module, in this case, to load up an assembly
Posted by JamesBrundage | 2 Comments
Saturday, July 26, 2008 9:01 PM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Trick - Writing functions that use the pipeline or take arguments

I was cleaning up some scripts for posting when I happened upon this minor trick. I had a function that was using $input, a PowerShell v1 feature that allows you to use pipelined values within a function.  This enables you to do basic pipelining
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Monday, July 21, 2008 1:51 AM

Microcode: Cleaning up DVR with Get-RecordedTV

The first simple way we can approach cleaning up DVR is by making the assertion that shows you don't want as much you won't record as often.  Suppose you record a movie once, or a game, or the pilot of a really bad TV show.   After a month
Posted by JamesBrundage | 2 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 12:28 AM

Microcode: Cleaning up Get-RecordedTV with Select-Object

In a previous post, I introduced Get-RecordedTV , which was built upon another function, Search-WindowsDesktop . The old version of Get-RecordedTV directly returned the properties related to DVR from Windows Desktop Search, with incredibly long names
Posted by JamesBrundage | 3 Comments
Sunday, July 13, 2008 10:35 PM

Microcode: Getting DVR MetaData with Search-WindowsDesktop

In the previous post , i explained that I was trying to find a way to get at the information about my TV shows, and introduced you to some of the thought process that went into finding out information about my DVR. I then solved the most important portion
Posted by JamesBrundage | 1 Comments
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