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WPF Window “Native” Behavior: Metro Window

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 04-Nov-2010

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 [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged Custom Chrome, Metro, PInvoke, Windows 7, WPF

PowerShell Module Manifests Tip: allowed cmdlets and variables

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 17-Jan-2010

I was under the impression that module manifests allow only DATA stuff. In fact, if you try to use cmdlets or variables in them, you get the usual Data-language errors, like this: Import-Module : The module manifest ‘C:\Modules\Test\Test.psd1’ could not be processed because it is not a valid PowerShell restricted language file. Please remove the [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged Manifest, Metadata, Modules, PowerShell, Windows 7 | 1 Response

Windows Compatability Libraries Galore (including PowerShell 2 for XP)

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 11-Sep-2009

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 [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged Development, licensing, Microsoft, PowerShell, Windows 7, Windows XP

What’s new in PowerShell 2?

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 10-Sep-2009

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 [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged PowerShell, Windows 7 | 3 Responses

Fun with PInvoke and Aero Peek

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 23-Aug-2009

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 [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged Aero Peek, API, DwmSetWindowAttribute, DWMWA_EXCLUDED_FROM_PEEK, PInvoke, PowerShell, Scripting, Win32, Windows 7 | 5 Responses

Stupid PowerShell Tricks

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 03-Feb-2009

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 [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged PowerShell, Pranks, Scripting, Tricks, Windows 7

First Impressions of Windows 7

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 12-Jan-2009

So, I wrote up this great explanation about how much the Shell in Windows 7 has changed from Vista, and how this shows that this Windows 7 beta is a much bigger deal than most of the whiners in the press are giving it credit for being, and explain about how I used to be [...]

Posted in Huddled | Tagged System Tray, Taskbar, User Account Control, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Shell, Windows Vista

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This is web site is dedicated to the musings of Joel Bennett (aka Jaykul) about technology, software, software development, the web, and the world.

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