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...
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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...
Windows Live Writer Post Fails With Error “The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.”
When trying to upload my last blog post from Windows Live Writer (WLW) to WordPress (WP) I received the following error:
Launch Visual Studio Checkin Window With A Keystroke
A few weeks ago I blogged about how you can get custom TFS checkin policies to work when committing from the command line. In that post, I had a quick aside ...
PowerShell Needs A Centralized Package Management Solution
TL;DR - PowerShell needs centralized package management. Please go up-vote this request to have it added to PowerShell.
Getting Custom TFS Checkin Policies To Work When Committing From The Command Line (i.e. tf checkin)
Update: I show how to have your checkin policies automatically update the registry keys shown in this blog post on this newer blog post. If you are not the p...
Add ability to add tabs to the end of a line in Windows PowerShell ISE
In the preamble of an earlier post I mentioned that one of the little things that bugs me about Windows PowerShell ISE is that you can add tabs to the start ...
Automatically Create Your Project’s NuGet Package Every Time It Builds, Via NuGet
So you’ve got a super awesome library/assembly that you want to share with others, but you’re too lazy to actually use NuGet to package it up and upload it t...
PowerShell ISE: Multi-line Comment and Uncomment Done Right, and other ISE GUI must haves
I’ve written some code that you can add to your ISE profile that adds keyboard shortcuts to quickly comment and uncomment lines in PowerShell ISE. So you can...
Free Xbox 360 Games If You Have Xbox Live Gold Subscription
I know this isn’t programming related (and thus doesn’t quite go with the theme of my blog), but I thought I’d share an Pass this along to anybody you know t...
Create and publish your NuGet package in one click with the New-NuGetPackage PowerShell script
I’ve spent a good chunk of time investigating how NuGet.exe works and creating a PowerShell script called New-NuGetPackage to make it dirt simple to pack and...
Fix Problem Where Windows PowerShell Cannot Run Script Whose Path Contains Spaces
Most people will likely find the “Run script path with spaces from File Explorer” (to be able to double click a PS script whose path contains spaces to run i...
Why I Chose WordPress Over Geeks With Blogs, And Moving From WordPress.com To A GoDaddy Hosted Solution
A while back I wrote about some reasons why I didn’t like GWB (Geeks With Blogs) and was attracted to WordPress. 6 months later and I am confident that I mad...
Powershell functions to get an xml node, and get and set an xml element’s value, even when the element does not already exist
I’m new to working with Xml through PowerShell and was so impressed when I discovered how easy it was to read an xml element’s value. I’m working with readin...
PowerShell function to create a password protected zip file
There are a few different ways to create zip files in powershell, but not many that allow you to create one that is password protected. I found this post tha...