Microsoft TechDays 2009 — this Wednesday
Hopefully this is just a reminder to you that on April 1st, 2009, Microsoft is putting on TechDays, a free 24 hour virtual event covering dozens developer-related topics with speakers around the globe… There will be around 100 live sessions provided via Live Meeting (and available afterward for watching on-demand) in five tracks: Windows Development [...]
PingMonitor: interactive WPF UIs from PowerShell (1.0 or 2.0)
I wrote a demo awhile back which I shared with a few people, but never really published, except in video form. I figured it’s past time to share the actual script. It’s written using PowerBoots, and I actually wrote a version of it for PowerShell 1.0 and another for PowerShell 2.0 to show how much [...]
TED talks you’ve got to watch!
Pattie Maes demo’d an enhanced reality (she calls it “sixth sense”) gadget that I’ve just got to have. I mean, I’d rather hide the video in a pair of glasses, but I’ll settle for this. If Charles Moore’s talk about the horrors of plastic doesn’t convince you to ask for paper bags and go back [...]
Please open up PowerShell on Connect!
I had to submit a bug to the Visual Studio connection this week and was pleasantly surprised, even astonished, at how easy their site is to use compared to PowerShell’s. First of all, their connection URL is: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio … as opposed to the PowerShell connection, which has the url: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=99 … Secondly, I could search [...]
Using PowerShell and WatiN (PowerWatin?)
This is an update to a previous article. Someone asked (on Twitter) about using WatiN from PowerShell, and pointed to this old post by Scott Hanselman saying he was having the same problems … so I wrote this to help them out: WatiN requires -STA mode Note: WatiN requires Single Threaded Apartment mode, so you [...]
PoshCode now Twitters
Well, over the weekend I stole a few moments from thinking about PoshCode 2.0 to think about PoshCode 1.0 … and I added two things: Feedback I’ve replaced the misused “comment” box on the website with a full GetSatisfaction.com widget, so you can get your voice heard and get feedback (in the past it’s been [...]
A guide to PowerShell’s Advanced Functions
Someone asked on the PowerShell Newsgroup about writing Advanced Functions, and specifically: looking for a … guide to putting together an advanced function that is visible and usable every time I start Powershell. By visible I mean that when I do a ‘get-command’ I want my [advanced function]s to be listed alongside all the regular [...]