Daniel Schroeder's Programming Blog

Getting Custom TFS Checkin Policies To Work When Committing From The Command Line (i.e. tf checkin)

September 6, 2013 4 minute read

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...

Accessing PowerShell Properties and Variables with Periods (and other special characters) in their Name

September 5, 2013 2 minute read

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Add ability to add tabs to the end of a line in Windows PowerShell ISE

June 24, 2013 1 minute read

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

June 22, 2013 1 minute read

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

June 19, 2013 30 minute read

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

June 12, 2013 1 minute read

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

June 7, 2013 2 minute read

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

May 28, 2013 3 minute read

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

May 17, 2013 4 minute read

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

May 16, 2013 5 minute read

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

May 9, 2013 1 minute read

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...

PowerShell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box

May 2, 2013 4 minute read

I love PowerShell, and when prompting users for input I often prefer to use GUI controls rather than have them enter everything into the console, as some thi...

Invoke-MsBuild Powershell Module

April 5, 2013 7 minute read

Update: I’ve moved this project to it’s own new home at https://invokemsbuild.codeplex.com. All updates will be made there.

Using MSBuild to publish a VS 2012 SSDT .sqlproj database project the same way as a VS 2010 .dbproj database project (using command line arguments to specify the database to publish to)

March 18, 2013 4 minute read

We recently upgraded from VS (Visual Studio) 2010 to VS 2012, and with it had to upgrade our .dbproj database project to a .sqlproj. When making the switch I...