Sometimes, we want to run PowerShell script from command-let that derives from PSCmdlet (If you derived from Cmdlet, you can't use this way). To do so, we just have to use this code: 1: using System.Management.Automation; 2: using System.Collections.ObjectModel; 3:   4: ...... 5:   6: Collection<PSObject>...

Someone asked me how we can set Windows PowerShell to work like in VB when you specify Option Explicit. How to disable using of variables that didn't defined in the code. In this way, you know for sure that you aren't use undefined variable and get unexpected results. to do "Option Explicit"...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are already here, but some of us, sometimes, still need to use .NET 2.0. Visual Studio 2008, support in a new feature called “Multi Targeting”. You can use Visual Studio 2008 ad IDE for .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0 too. Simply, in the “New Project” form...

Localizability is one of the tasks that we should be aware to writing a World-Ready Application. Basically this task implies that the application executable code has been clearly separated from the application localizable resources. So that one required feature in our code is that all literal should...

Sorry for the delay but it's been a busy couple of weeks (so this list of links will be longer than most). Things that caught my attentions are: Microsoft are working on a software factory for websites: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=websf Sanjeeb Sarangi provides a list of things...

It is time for a new version of coolcommands because I found 3 new coolcommands: Thomas Freudenberg suggested the need of a menu item to each project item which spawns the command “explorer /e, /select,<filepath>” This opens the explorer and select the specified file. For more about Command-Line...

Thanks to NUnit , unit-testing in a .NET-environment is really easy. With good tools however, it's still fairly easy to make stupid mistakes. One of the things I've learned when constructing unit-tests is that you shouldn't reuse testing code to create the actual code. Ofcourse that's obvious, but in...

I fixed some bugs and I added 2 new features: Generate Images (Tools/Generate Images) This command will dump all bitmaps and icons as separated files in a selected folder. Generate Resource Class (Tools/Generate Resource Class) If you have a General.resx file then this command will generate a strongly...

Yesterday, I published small application I developed called IPSWeb . This application is actually web client for Windows PowerShell. It’s very simple, to install this application you create new IIS website, copy the files to the website directory and then, you have web access to the Windows PowerShell...

What is SMO? SMO, SQL Server Management Object, is a collection of objects that includes all you need to manage SQL Server from .NET applications. With SMO you can manage pretty much everything – from databases, tables, stored procedures, jobs – you name it. Actually, SMO is “.NET Version” of COM object...