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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:41 AM

Returning an exit code from a PowerShell script

Returning an exit code from a PowerShell script seems easy… but it isn’t that obvious. In this blog post I will show you an approach that works for PowerShell scripts that can be called from both PowerShell and batch scripts, where the command to be executed...
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Friday, May 21, 2010 9:17 AM

weblogs.asp.net no longer usable as a blogging platform?

I get swamped by spam on my weblogs.asp.net weblog. Both comments spam and spam through the contact form. It is getting so bad that I think the platform is becoming useless for me. Why o why are we bloggers from the first hour still in stone age without...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:10 AM

Powershell output capturing and text wrapping… again…

A while a go I wrote a post “ Powershell output capturing and text wrapping: strange quirks... solved! ” on preventing output wrapping in PowerShell when capturing the output. In this article I wrote that I used the following way to capture the output...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:22 AM

Debugging executing program from PowerShell using EchoArgs.exe

Sometimes you pull you hairs out because the execution of a command just does not seem to work the way you want from PowerShell. A good example of this is the following case: Given a folder on the filesystem, I want to determine if the folder is under...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:07 PM

Visual Studio: alway run as administrator

I’m currently developing on a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 that is domain joined, so I log in with my domain account and user access control is enabled. I need to run my Visual Studio as an administrator, because otherwise I get all kind of errors. I...
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Friday, July 03, 2009 11:46 PM

Microsoft Virtual labs - getting the lab notes directly

Microsoft has great virtual labs available, but it takes some time to get in there. If you just want the lab notes, type the following in Google: site:download.microsoftvirtuallabs.com filetype:pdf or just follow this link .
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:39 PM

Debugging SharePoint/ASP.NET code? Smart key-codes + disable timeout!

I'm currently running around in the Visual Studio debugger to debug some complex SharePoint code. There are two things really annoy me: all the mouse-clicks needed to attach to the Internet Information Server process and the time-out you get when you...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:34 AM

LiveWriter finally working again with my weblogs.asp.net blog!

Thanks to Joe Cheng who was so kind to respond to my previous post on the topic I finally have LiveWriter working again against my blog. The metablog handler needs to be: http://weblogs.asp.net/metablog.ashx In the past this was: http://weblogs.asp.net...
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Friday, April 10, 2009 5:17 PM

Help: Windows LiveWriter not working anymore against http://weblogs.asp.net?

I almost stopped blogging because Windows Livewriter stopped working against my http://weblogs.asp.net account on three different platforms. I get the following error when trying to post with LiveWriter: The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:41 AM

PowerShell: Return values from a function through reference parameters

PowerShell has a special [ref] keyword to specify which parameters are used in a fuction to return values. It's usage is not directly clear however. If the type of the variable to update is a value type, use the [ref] keyword in the declaration of the...
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