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Find Largest (Or Smallest) Files In A Directory Or Drive With PowerShell
One of our SQL servers was running low on disk space and I needed to quickly find the largest files on the drive to know what was eating up all of the disk s...
Keep PowerShell Console Window Open After Script Finishes Running
I originally included this as a small bonus section at the end of my other post about fixing the issue of not being able to run a PowerShell script whose pat...
Adding a WPF Settings Page To The Tools Options Dialog Window For Your Visual Studio Extension
I recently created my first Visual Studio extension, Diff All Files, which allows you to quickly compare the changes to all files in a TFS changeset, shelves...
Template Solution For Deploying TFS Checkin Policies To Multiple Versions Of Visual Studio And Having Them Automatically Work From “TF.exe Checkin” Too
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Saving And Loading A C# Object’s Data To An Xml, Json, Or Binary File
I love creating tools, particularly ones for myself and other developers to use. A common situation that I run into is needing to save the user’s settings to...
“Agent lost communication with Team Foundation Server” TFS Build Server Error
We had recently started getting lots of error messages similar to the following on our TFS Build Servers:
If You Like Using Macros or AutoHotkey, You Might Want To Try The Enterpad AHK Keyboard
If you follow my blog then you already know I’m a huge fan of AutoHotkey (AHK), and that I created the AHK Command Picker to allow me to have a limitless num...
Don’t Write WPF Converters; Write C# Inline In Your XAML Instead Using QuickConverter
If you’ve used binding at all in WPF then you more then likely have also written a converter. There are lots of tutorials on creating converters, so I’m not ...
Get AutoHotkey To Interact With Admin Windows Without Running AHK Script As Admin
March 2023 Update: I’ve found another solution that I prefer over this one. See this post for details.
Provide A Batch File To Run Your PowerShell Script From; Your Users Will Love You For It
Aside - This post has received many tangential questions in the comments. Your best bet at getting an answer to those questions is to check Stack Overflow an...
Problems Caused By Installing Windows 8.1 Update
Myself and a few co-workers have updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and have run into some weird problems. After a bit of Googling I have found that we ar...
Always Explicitly Set Your Parameter Set Variables For PowerShell v2.0 Compatibility
What are parameter sets anyways?
PowerShell Code To Ensure Client Is Using At Least The Minimum Required PowerShell Version
Here’s some simple code that will throw an exception if the client running your script is not using the version of PowerShell (or greater) that is required; ...
PowerShell Script To Get Path Lengths
A while ago I created a Path Length Checker tool in C# that has a “nice” GUI, and put it up on CodePlex. One of the users reported that he was trying to use ...
PowerShell Functions To Convert, Remove, and Delete IIS Web Applications
I recently refactored some of our PowerShell scripts that we use to publish and remove IIS 7 web applications, creating some general functions that can be us...
PowerShell 2.0 vs. 3.0 Syntax Differences And More
I’m fortunate enough to work for a great company that tries to stay ahead of the curve and use newer technologies. This means that when I’m writing my PowerS...
Creating Strongly Typed Objects In PowerShell, Rather Than Using An Array Or PSCustomObject
I recently read a great article that explained how to create hashtables, dictionaries, and PowerShell objects. I already knew a bit about these, but this art...
PowerShell Functions To Delete Old Files And Empty Directories
I thought I’d share some PowerShell (PS) functions that I wrote for some clean-up scripts at work. I use these functions to delete files older than a certain...