WMI is a powerful tool and I have just recently discovered some of its power. Previously I though the only way to detect process creation was by creating a windows hook but now I know it is fairly simple to due with .NET using the Windows.Management namespace. Below is simple ProcessWatcher class that...

Jim Gries has posted a number of excellent "Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools". Two that I've found very useful and use quite a bit now in my day-to-day debugging are: Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #3 - Use tracepoints to log execution flow and even modify it. No more debug print statements and the trick...

I while ago (almost 2 years) I posted a way to create a string stream in .Net. There has been a number of new comments added to that post recently so I figured I needed to update that example. Most API's that look for a Stream will also allow either a TextReader or TextWriter depending on the context...

The purpose of this quick start guide is to step through a simple but complete example of how to create a third party component with configurable run-time checks of a contract specification using nContract. To fully follow along with this example you will need to download nContract QuickStart . Create...

I've started using Windows Live Writer as my primary blogging tool. So far I like it. However, it was missing an easy way to insert highlighted code into posts. I know there are a few other plugins that can insert highlighted code, but since I'm the author of a syntax highlighting tool named CodeHTMLer...

Question How do I access my Outlook contacts from my web application? Short Answer You don't, well at least you shouldn't (It is theoretically possible to access Outlook data from a web application, assuming Outlook is installed and the profile you wish to access data from is setup on the web server...

Before we dive into the code sample lets take a quick look at what it means for an appointment to fall into a given date range. When you compare an appointment with a given date range (or any two time intervals) there are the 6 possible outcomes displayed in the diagram above. Usually as a first attempt...

After reading about Brad 's find script I starting thinking about how cool it would be if I could highlight the search pattern in the output. So I wrote my own custom Find-String script to highlight the results. Find-String.ps1 # Find-String.ps1 # Wrapper around dir | select-string which will highlight...

After reading about Brad 's find script I starting thinking about how cool it would be if I could highlight the search pattern in the output. So I wrote my own custom Find-String script to highlight the results. Find-String.ps1 # Find-String.ps1 # Wrapper around dir | select-string which will highlight...

Before we dive into the code sample lets take a quick look at what it means for an appointment to fall into a given date range. When you compare an appointment with a given date range (or any two time intervals) there are the 6 possible outcomes displayed in the diagram above. Usually as a first attempt...