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(Mis)using “Localizable Data” to force users to set variables

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 12-Jul-2008

Have you ever written a program or a script where there’s a setting which has to be set by the user the first time the app is run? With applications, we just show the configuration UI when it’s run for the first time, but how about with PowerShell scripts? Well, in PowerShell 2 (CTP2), there [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged Configuration, Data, Localization, PowerShell, Scripting | 1 Response

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