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• PowerShell: Install-Gac (GACUTIL for PowerShell)

  So, I don't know about anyone else, but it is a pain to use GACUTIL on systems without the .NET SDK. So, I found out there is a .NET API for GACUTIL, so now I just wrapped it in PowerShell to make it easier to use. :) 1: BEGIN { 2: $ErrorActionPreference... Posted Oct 31 2008, 03:16 PM by adweigert with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: powershell, .net

• PowerShell: Oh Happy Days Are Here (Dynamically Compiling C# Code for Strongly Typed Objects within PowerShell)

  Ever wanted to build native .NET objects to use while in a PowerShell script? Well I certainly have, and finally took the time to figure out how easy it is to actually do! Enjoy! function Compile-Code { param ( [string[]] $code = $(throw "The parameter... Posted Sep 29 2008, 08:15 PM by adweigert with | with no comments Filed under: powershell, c#, .net, CodeDom, CodeDomProvider

• PowerShell: Keeping Secrets for Batch Scripts

  As a system administrator, I write a lot of utility scripts, and I love using PowerShell. However, I cannot always use the local scheduler with a service account to run a script, sometimes I have to provide a username and password to an application or... Posted Aug 27 2008, 12:01 PM by adweigert with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: powershell, .net, cryptography

• PowerShell: Adding the Using Statement

  So, I happened to come across a need for the using statement from C#. I basically didn't want to use Try...Finally when I am so used to the short-hand using statement. Thank goodness I already have a Try..Catch..Finally statement/function for PowerShell... Posted Aug 27 2008, 11:56 AM by adweigert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: powershell, .net

• PowerShell: Threading Enhancements FTW!

  To build on the threading library I mentioned here , I've added some functionality to make it easier to communicate with the seperate thread. Still, keep in mind that PowerShell will only allow one pipeline to be executing in a runspace at any given time... Posted Apr 30 2008, 09:11 AM by adweigert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: powershell, .net

• PowerShell: Threading for PowerShell v1.0

  Ok, so this solution really isn't threading, but a neat way to get async scripts to run! The important thing to remember is that each "thread" is actually a PowerShell "runspace". Meaning, scripts run within the thread don't have access to objects or... Posted Apr 29 2008, 04:20 PM by adweigert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: powershell, .net

• Windows Server 2008 / Vista - Network Scalability "Feature"

  I highly recommend, if you are running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista, to disable the network scalability features. If you don't, you run the chance of one day running into "slow" performance of an application between one client or server and another... Posted Mar 15 2008, 08:05 PM by adweigert with | with no comments Filed under: .net, Network Scaliblity, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista

• C#: My First Lambda Expression

  I don't know about anyone else, but I found it annoying to have to put on three-lines of code (or one ugly one-line of code) for an IF statement for argument validation. Mostly, I want to check a simple condition and if true, throw an exception. Well... Posted Dec 16 2007, 07:56 AM by adweigert with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: c#, .net, Orcas

• C#: My First Extension Method

  I will find many, many uses for this ... maybe someone else will too! using System; using System.Diagnostics; internal static class StringExtensions { public static T ToEnum<T>( this string value) where T : struct { Debug .Assert(! string .IsNullOrEmpty... Posted Dec 08 2007, 10:01 AM by adweigert with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: c#, .net, Orcas

• PowerShell: Try...Catch...Finally Comes To Life

  So, PowerShell has some good error handling, but being so used to .NET, I really missed my Try...Catch...Finally statements. Especially when I needed to make sure a block of code always executed. Well, after some playing, I think I have the solution! I've tested this function in a few different ways. I hope this turns out to be as helpful to someone else as it is for me. Maybe Microsoft will add this functionality to the core of PowerShell.... Posted Oct 10 2007, 05:18 PM by adweigert with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: powershell, .net