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Poshnet DNS CMDLet and DNS Lookup Script

Steve Schofield — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:36:53 GMT

Steve Schofield writes, "...script accepts a domain, resolves the IP(s) used in DNS, runs an HTTP Get on the host name and / or hostname with WWW. It returns a status code, the AbsoluteURI. This is handy when you are processing 100's of domains trying to determine if they are valid. PS - One of my favorite features is the EmulateDig option..." more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:36:53 GMT

Easiest Way to Generate Connection String And Verify Database Connectivity

Deepak Kapoor — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:08:04 GMT

Deepak Kapoor writes, "There are two things which I as a consultant / developer come across many times. One is verifying connectivity to a database which is often a cause of production issues and second is creating valid connection string in the least amount of time. This is the way I do it. Hopefully it will be of help to you. First of all..." more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:08:04 GMT

Easy Command Locates Obsolete Users and Computers

Dmitry Sotnikov — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:05:41 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "Just got easier (and faster!) in AD cmdlets 1.4! Before this release you still could manually filter user or computer records by pwdLastSet or LastLogonTimestamp – now user and computer retrieval by a bunch of attributes with an easy command like:..." more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:05:41 GMT

Code Sample Builds a Simple Recursive Descent Parser

Eric White — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:04:06 GMT

Eric White writes, "...using LINQ to write a recursive-descent parser for SpreadsheetML formulas..." more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:04:06 GMT

Problems with MEF and Silverlight 4 with VS2010

Albert Pascual — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:27:08 GMT

Albert Pascual writes, "...found that trying to load just one xap file was giving me this error: [System.InvalidOperationException...The package downloaded successfully but an error occurred while reading the contents of the package. I made sure there wasn’t any circular reference and the metadata was like the sample provided and still didn’t had any success. How can I load a xap containing other resources besides UserControls?" more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:27:08 GMT

Code Sample Finds All Data Providers Installed on a Machine

Deepak Kapoor — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:01 GMT

Deepak Kapoor writes, "...how to find Data Providers installed on a machine. Data providers in .NET Framework provide the plumbing necessary to connect to databases. There are different data providers available which can connect to SQL Server, Oracle or other databases through OleDb. You can find the data providers installed..." more

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:01 GMT

jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Public Sector DPE Team — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:22:00 GMT

Public Sector DPE Team writes, "...very cool...131 Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets for use with jQuery”..." more

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:22:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Undock Windows is Great for Comparing Code

Robert MacLean — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:53:21 GMT

Robert MacLean writes, "Visual Studio 2010 has the ability to undock code windows by clicking and dragging on the code window tabs...I like the ability to undock the windows because it lets me view two different parts of the same file at the same time...get a full screen side by side view which is GREAT for comparing code..." more

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:53:21 GMT

Hold off Installing OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 6 & .NET 4.0 Gotchas

Aaron Tiensivu — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:23:10 GMT

Aaron Tiensivu writes, "I've heard of numerous reports of the CU6's SQL back-end update having version mismatch problems with the front-end update. One cause I can speculate on is that the web caches that Microsoft uses publish the updated bits are lagging behind...If you install .NET 4.0 Framework before installing any OCS server role, the OCS setup program will complain that .NET 3.5x is not installed, even if..." more

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:23:10 GMT

Creating your First PowerGUI Script Editor Add-On

Dmitry Sotnikov — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:33:31 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...a step by step tutorial on creating add-ons for PowerGUI Script Editor. It takes you from the obligatory ‘Hello World’ example...the way through creating a useful add-on...with menu item, proper clean up code..." more

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:33:31 GMT

Workarounds for PowerGUI Editor 2.1.1 and AD cmdlets 1.4 Issues

Dmitry Sotnikov — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:30 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...in some cases when you are using version 1.4.0 of QAD cmdlets inside PowerGUI Script Editor 2.1.1, and invoke a script with the cmdlets for the second time you may get the error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.“..." more

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:30 GMT

Gem for Debugging Windows Batch Files when used as Scheduled Tasks

Samuel Jack — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:36:50 GMT

Samuel Jack writes, "Here's a little gem...how to trouble-shoot a Windows bat file when using it as a scheduled task. We’re using SQL Express, and we want to make sure all our databases are safely backed up on a regular schedule. One thing that Microsoft cut out of SQL Server when pruning it to create the free version is SQL Agent, the tool that enables you to run..." more

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:36:50 GMT

10 Commandments of Usability

David Laribee — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:22:02 GMT

David Laribee writes, "...Immediately I started to think about how these usability heuristics apply to software development..." more

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:22:02 GMT

Learn How to Extend Visual Studio 2010

Kate Gregory — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:57:30 GMT

Kate Gregory writes, "...This one is on Customizing and Extending Visual Studio. About half of it is live already...You can get your work done a lot faster if you tweak Visual Studio to meet your needs. It doesn't have to cost you money and it doesn't have to cost you much time. Take a look..." more

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:57:30 GMT

Simple Statements about Cross Site Scripting - XSS - HTML - Injection

Alun Jones — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:35:42 GMT

Alun Jones writes, "...Some simple statements about Cross Site Scripting / XSS / HTML Injection (all terms for the same thing): Ignore the term “Cross Site Scripting” as a confusing anachronism. Think “HTML Injection” whenever you hear “Cross Site Scripting”, and you won’t go wrong. The problem of XSS can be summed up quite simply as:..." more

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:35:42 GMT

Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:14:33 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes, "...This week’s CTP4 release of the “EF Code-First” functionality provides a pretty nice code-centric way to work with data. It brings with it a lot of productivity, as well as a lot of power. In today’s tutorial I focused mostly on some of the new productivity enhancements provided with the CTP4 release..." more

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:14:33 GMT

Top 7 Add-Ons for PowerGUI Script Editor

Dmitry Sotnikov — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:18:25 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "Here is the run down of the most popular add-ons available for the PowerGUI Script Editor...1. PowerShell Script Signing – by far the number one add-on which already had more than 300 downloads..." more

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:18:25 GMT

Reports Explain Collisions in TFS Warehouse and Cube

Buck Hodges — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:42:25 GMT

Buck Hodges writes, "...set of reports that help you understand what’s going on in the TFS warehouse and cube in Team Foundation Server 2010 so that you can deal with issues such as field collisions, which can be very tedious to handle since out of the box we don’t provide easy ways to figure it out. His post includes an attached zip file" more

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:42:25 GMT

CodeRush Sample: Anonymous Method Refactoring Fun

Jason Follas — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:38:22 GMT

Jason Follas writes, "...Since I was already familiar with the anonymous method syntax, CodeRush played an instrumental part in my learning Lambda expressions because I could write an anonymous method and then have it transformed into an equivalent Lambda for me...I wanted to update my older code in order to replace anonymous methods with the newer syntax, and CodeRush made it a trivial task to do this..." more

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:38:22 GMT

C# 4 broke my code! The Pitfalls of COM Interop and Extension Methods

Samuel Jack — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:04 GMT

Samuel Jack writes, "...wasn’t expecting any problems...Then I ran our suite of unit tests. 6145 passed. 15 failed....So watch out if your code uses extension methods on COM objects and you’re planning on upgrading to VS 2010. Don’t assume that your code works the same as before just because it compiled OK..." more

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:01:04 GMT