The problem with calling legacy/native apps from PowerShell
This post is an explanation of the major problems with invoking native apps from PowerShell 2.0, and the simple work-around. There is going to be a little bit of code and then quite a bit of sample output (along with some pointers so you don’t have to play spot the differences). In order to avoid [...]
Long-Path Module (Experimental.IO)
Thanks to a late night on my part, and the efforts of the developers on the Microsoft BCL project who wrote the Experimental.IO LongPath assembly … with no further ado, I present a really basic module for dealing with long file paths. There’s no help yet, and very little error handling. But if you needed [...]
Installing a clean Development box
The hard drive in my development box died last week, and although I’ll spare you the story of the replacement process, I thought it might be interesting to document the process of rebuilding my dev box, and provide color commentary while I’m at it. Install Windows Vista (Business) Get domain admin (my boss) to log [...]