Whenever I go to a client and need to plugin to their network, I would find myself typing in proxy settings to get internet access. In IE, that would be in Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings. When I'm back in the office and plugged in to my corporate network, these...
I recently did a walkthrough of the Web Service Software Factory for a group of developers. They are considering its use for their Web Services development. I used the accompanying Hands-On-Lab for the exercise and made some minor modifications to make it "fit" their current environment. After...
Link #1 Scott Hanselman writes about a Reflector add-in that outputs PowerShell Code The one I've been messing with for the last few weeks is the PowerShell Language Add-in. Reflector can "decompile" (not the correct word) the IL within an assembly and show you the "intent" of...
I participated in the recent scripting games (under the Powershell category) because I wanted to win a prize ;-) So when I got home the other day a package was waiting for me... Link to Scripting Games MMVII: Dr. Scripto Bobblehead
Keith posted a console app he created to determine the processes that are running .NET applications. I got thinking that this type of "utility" apps are perfect for PowerShell. So I took Keith's code and made an equivalent powershell script. $dotnet = @() $procs = get-process foreach ($proc in $procs...
This is my first blog post using Windows Live Writer . Setting up WLW to post to devpinoy was a great experience. All I had to do was give it the URL for my blog [http://community.devpinoy.org/blogs/velocity] and my username + password and it will try to guess the web blog provider as well as download...
PowerShell for Vista has shipped. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/01/29/windows-powershell-1-0-for-windows-vista.aspx Some links to go A powershell cheatsheet http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/01/24/powershell-cheat-sheet.aspx A VirtualLab for PowerShell (Learn by doing) http...
PowerGadgets has just added a whole new level of "extending" PowerShell. Imagine providing charting facilities to a scripting language, all through its extensibility using .NET. Already I can image using PowerShell to drive build scripts and "visualize" the red/green status of builds. Let's see if this...
I was giving a presentation on PowerShell, and of all the "demolets" (consistent with cmdlets hehe), it was this one that woke up an already sleepy participant $robobabe = new - object -com sapi.spvoice $robobabe.Speak(" Powershell rocks. You rocks ") Now, if only robobabe can check for grammar...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/webcasts/ps.mspx Sign up for Windows PowerShell week. There's a webcast for each day of the week, where you will be introduced to the wonders of scripting with PowerShell. As for me, I'll be posting more of my PowerShell adventures...promise ;-) So why bother...
I've been learning Powershell (aka Monad) in fits and spurts. Sometimes, you just need *real* motivation to get you started. In fits You know how it is, you see a post on a blog, you get excited, you download the "thang", play around with it, then real life happens...reports, deadlines, call customer...