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 ...
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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...
PowerShell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box
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
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)
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...
Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user – Now on NuGet!
A while ago I blogged about a powershell script I made that would automatically update your ClickOnce project file’s Minimum Required Version to the latest v...
Too Many AutoHotkey Shortcuts To Remember? There’s An App For That!
I love AutoHotkey (AHK). Ever since I discovered it a little over a year ago I am constantly surprised and pleased with what I am able to accomplish with it....
Making document storage in Sharepoint a breeze (leave the Web UI behind)
Hey everyone, I know many of us regularly use Sharepoint for document storage in order to make documents available to several people, have it version control...