WPF Window “Native” Behavior: Metro Window
A couple of years ago I first introduced my native behaviors for WPF to support enhancing WPF applications with behaviors that require PInvoke or hooking the Window’s message processing loop: WndProc. You can read all about it on my previous posts, including the original implementations of my Snap To Screen Edges behavior, and my Custom [...]
Windows Compatability Libraries Galore (including PowerShell 2 for XP)
Microsoft has been very busy this year … and in these last couple of months before the general availability of Windows 7, they’re trying very hard to crank out the tools necessary to encourage development of Windows 7 applications. The first tool out of the gate, of course, was the Windows API Code Pack for [...]
What’s new in PowerShell 2?
Image via Wikipedia I gave a presentation at the upstate New York PowerShell user group last night about the new stuff in PowerShell 2 — giving it really made me think about how I’m just so used to PowerShell 2 that I’ve forgotten about how much of it is new in this version — and [...]
Fun with PInvoke and Aero Peek
There are so many fun things you can do in Windows when your scripting language allows you to make PInvoke calls to Win32 APIs … but I have to say it’s amazing how many things have been added to Windows recently and still left out of the .Net framework … Anyway, on to the Aero [...]
Stupid PowerShell Tricks
So, last year around April, I wrote this module I called “HuddledTricks” ... it has a function for hiding windows, and another for showing them, along with a function called Wiggle-Mouse which, well, wiggles your mouse cursor (and one called Steady-Mouse to stop it). So anyway, today I was playing with something else and with [...]