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New WPK Video Online: Multitouch Fingerpaint in 30 Lines of PowerShell Script

The 2nd video about WPK just hit Channel9.  The first video was a video walk thru of How to Write User Interfaces with WPK , and this video walks thru How to Write a Multitouch FingerPaint with WPK . Enjoy, James Brundage [MSFT]

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Trick: Fun With Parameter Binding: The Fake Parameter Set Trick

I’ve been hearing a lot of questions recently about what things you can do with advanced functions.  People seem to be aching for good examples of using PowerShell V2 functions, and, since I’ve discovered a few handy tricks for advanced functions,

Microcode: A Quick Trick to turn regular XML into Xaml

MSDN has tons of examples about XAML. Nearly everything in WPF has an example in XAML, but not all of these XAML examples actually reference the namespace that is required for this Xaml to be loadable by WPF. It's still valid XML, just not valid XAML.

Media: The Moment Obama Got Inaugurated and PhotoSynth Hit Mainstream

Photosynth is a really cool product out of live labs.  It's sort of an uber photo collage application.  It takes photos taken from different people, at different resolutions and different times, and collects them into a 3d view of a location
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PowerScripting Podcast Online

My interview with the PowerScripting Podcast is now online.  Check it out: http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/episode-55-jeff-hicks-in-for-hal-and-an-interview-with-james-brundage/ Hope this helps, James Brundage [MSFT]

Please Join Me for a Power Scripting Podcast Tonight @ 9PM EST (6PM PST)

I’m going to be doing a PowerScripting Podcast tonight @ 9PM EST.  There’s a live chat room where you can ask questions and pick the brains of a tester / avid scripter on the PowerShell team. It should be fun.  I hope to see your questions there.

Media: The Future of Newspapers is Pay For Play Journalism?

I love my news.  For whatever reason, I find catching up on the world to be one of the most relaxing and rewarding things you can do in your spare time.  Even though I like to read the news, I rarely read a physical newspaper or magazine or
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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 ,

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

Microcode: Cool Posts: Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

Benko just posted a Visual Studio Tips & Tricks listing.  It's missing on of my favorites, which a coworker on the PowerShell team, Ibrahim Abdul Rahim, showed me: In a couple of circumstances, you'll see a red squiggle (like a syntax error)

Media: xBox 360: 70 XNA Games in 24 Days

It’s the weekend.  I love my video games, and I really love my xBox 360.  I’ve had one since just after they first came out, and I’ve slowly but surely accumulated about 70 physical games for the 360 made by major producers.  I remember
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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

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

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

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
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