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Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Lightning-Fast Nested User Groups in C#

by Daniel Miller

This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance user/role security principal hierarchy.

C# MVVM Toolkit Demo

by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using the MVVM Toolkit and some self-created interfaces / services for MessageBox and some dialogs.

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

by Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

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How to Transform Binary Files into Powershell Script(s) in Order to Copy them Silently on a Server

by Federico Di Marco

A tool which creates one or more Powershell scripts which in turn recreate one or more binary files

Azure Automation Runbooks in 2024

by Wessel Beulink

Azure spearheads cloud evolution, Azure Automation Runbooks manage hybrid/SOC environments effectively

How to Enable Bitlocker Hardware Encryption on SEDs

by Federico Di Marco

How to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption on self encrypting drives

VPNScripter: A Scripter for Windows' VPN Connections

by Federico Di Marco

Create quickly VPN connections in Windows according to a XML configuration file

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Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Lightning-Fast Nested User Groups in C#

5 Dec 2015 by Daniel Miller

This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance user/role security principal hierarchy.

C# MVVM Toolkit Demo

27 Feb 2023 by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using the MVVM Toolkit and some self-created interfaces / services for MessageBox and some dialogs.

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

27 Nov 2015 by Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

Universal SMTP Code to Send Emails in .NET Apps

8 Aug 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan, Iqra Ali

Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.

Http-Monitor using Powershell

17 Nov 2017 by Daniele Fontani

A powershell script that monitors webs sites and trace logs into database.

Multi Threaded PowerShell Cookbook

12 Apr 2015 by Shining Dragon

A look into how we can achieve multi threading in our Powershell scripts

Deploy Node.js Application Running on Microsoft IIS 10 To Docker's Windows Server Core 2016 Containers

1 Sep 2018 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this brief article, we will demonstrate how to deploy a Node.js application and run it on Docker's Windows Server Core 2016 Containers

Controlling Service Startup Order in Docker Compose

20 Mar 2023 by Bogdan Marian

Ensure your Docker Compose services start in the correct order

Adding SMS notifications to your Windows Azure projects

30 Apr 2012 by Luke Jefferson

Learn how to configure SMS alerts to fire based on your Windows Azure application deployment status.

Installing a Free SSL Certificate on Azure

14 Jan 2020 by Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to setup an SSL certificate for FREE on your Azure account. The existing free SSL with Azure only works on 'non-naked' domains, making it pretty much worthless. This is a 100% free method which ensures your site will be 100% secure.

Modify Windows BCD using Powershell

1 Nov 2020 by awilson9010

Working with Windows BCD store in Powershell

How to Enable Bitlocker Hardware Encryption on SEDs

22 Dec 2023 by Federico Di Marco

How to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption on self encrypting drives

Powershell or CMD window embedded in C# form

21 Feb 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

This is a well-known thing, which is implemented in the class System.Management.Automation.PowerShell, please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.automation.powershell%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].You can find a simple code sample...

Automate VeraCrypt Container Mounting for Use with AbstractSpoon ToDoList

17 May 2016 by Ron Bos

I wrote this small PowerShell script to quickly access some AbstractSpoon ToDoList documents which are stored in VeraCrypt containers. The selected container stays mounted until the ToDoList executable is closed. I use OneDrive to automatically upload the then dismounted container to the cloud.

Unattended installation of SQL Server 2012

11 Jul 2016 by Jesus Carroll

Despite the references of several sources of unattended installation of Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine, in this article describes a script tested in real production environments and it can be used with minimal or - perhaps - no modifications.

Retrieving data from executed commands in PowerShell in C#

15 Jun 2022 by Tomasz Malicki

How to create a dynamic object in C # containing the results of a command executed in PowerShell.

Levenshtein Distance in Windows PowerShell

16 Aug 2010 by shappell

A Script for determing the levenshtein distance between two strings in PowerShell

SQL DB Restore using PowerShell

20 Sep 2010 by Ali BaderEddin

Restore an SQL database on a local or remote SQL server using PowerShell

MySQL DB backup using powershell script

17 Aug 2011 by Milind R Chavan

Create MySQL Database backup using mysqldump

Query Webservices with Powershell

10 Jul 2014 by RoboJRR

How to use Powershell to query webservices.

Powershell To update Services Password, Sharepoint Managed Acount Password and IIS AppPool Password

21 Jul 2014 by Rocky R. Fernandes

Update Password using PowerShell

PowerShell: Create MSMQ

28 Oct 2014 by Sacha Barber

PowerShell: Create MSMQ

Using Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt With PowerShell

29 Oct 2014 by Mohamed Meligy

How to use Visual Studio developer command prompt with Powershell

PowerShell: Http Get/Post

24 Nov 2014 by Sacha Barber

How to use PowerShell to carry out REST operations such as GET/POST

PowerShell for Office 365

14 Dec 2015 by Member 12014821

PowerShell for Office 365

Sharepoint Cmdlets using PowerShell ISE

22 Dec 2015 by 2irfanshaikh

Use SharePoint Commandlets in Windows PowerShell ISE

Copying CDs and DVDs in Bulk With No App Interaction

9 Jan 2017 by dandy72

Copy removable media more quickly by eliminating all the usual repetitive application interaction steps you normally have to go through.

Easy Command Line Parser

18 Oct 2020 by Mohssine EL HARFI

ECLP in C#

ScoopBox

26 Nov 2020 by H. Hasanov

ScoopBox is a C# library that automates the configuration file building and generates a script which inside contains commands to execute using PowerShell.

Prepare Emails with HTML Body to be Sent from Outlook

22 Dec 2020 by Marijan Nikic

A simple solution using Powershell for preparing emails from Windows batch in Outlook; supports HTML body

Automatic Subscription of Azure Functions to Event Grid

14 Jun 2023 by Leszek Koc

Auto subscription of Azure functions to Event Grid

Generate Icon Sets for Android and iOS in Native Mobile App Development

13 Nov 2023 by Zijian

Use PowerShell scripts to generate icons of native mobile apps

Using WPF UI Automation with PowerShell

20 Sep 2010 by Uros Calakovic

I encountered a problem while trying to use WPF UI Automation with PowerShell - PowerShell reported incorrect type for automation elements

Setting middle parameter as not mandatory out of three parameters

10 Feb 2011 by Nish Nishant

Typically this is done through named arguments. Example:filename:abc.txt color:redNow the order of the parameters don't matter.

How to excute C# function using Windoes power shell

3 Oct 2011 by Espen Harlinn

This is one of the really good articles on the subject:Extend Windows PowerShell With Custom Commands[^]Best regardsEspen Harlinn

Sharpoint 2010 deployment using Powershell

24 Oct 2011 by manibe2k5

This article will assist you to deliver/deploy your Sharepoint site and its features using Powershell

How to migrate from Bash to PowerShell: find . -name '*.xml' | xargs tar -czvf data.tgz

19 Dec 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

By the way, found that Microsoft official documentation on PowerShell is prohibitively bad, even though v.3.0 is finally made well usable; and Intellisense is quite good. The best book I saw so far is this one: http://www.pavleck.net/powershell-cookbook/[^].The problem with tar is: you would...

How to migrate from Bash to PowerShell: find . -name '*.xml' | xargs tar -czvf data.tgz

19 Dec 2012 by Espen Harlinn

Apart from what Sergey mentions - you have a few other options:Windows Services for Unix[^] - provides a very complete Unix subsystem on WindowsMinGW[^] - the minimalist GNU for WindowsCygwin[^]All of them are free and allows you to continue using your bash scripts on...

Unity Interceptor for Performance Instrumentation

4 Apr 2013 by Jean-marc Lai

Unity interception

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

30 Oct 2013 by Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

Using a common.js/require-like Approach in powershell

2 Mar 2014 by Matthias Kainer

Registering your powershell modules on demand with PSReg

Resolve Double-Hop Issue in PowerShell Remoting

26 Nov 2014 by Zhuyun Dai

Describes how to resolve the 'Double-Hop' issue in PowerShell remoting and how to troubleshoot issues we may meet.

C# Wait for user input then continue with code

31 Mar 2015 by Andy Lanng

if this is a winforms application (the "MessageBox.Show" says that it is) then hitting space will trigger an event depending on which control has focus. private void form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e) { if (e.KeyChar == ' ') ps.AddScript("netsh...

Amazon Web Services part 4 - Cloudformation template to create a load balanced IIS/SQL Server web site using EC2, RDS and Route53

20 May 2015 by Matt Perdeck

A fully functional sample Cloudformation template that generates a load balanced IIS/SQL Server based web site, plus PowerShell scripts to automatically deploy the web site on your EC2 instances

Powershell: Get Process Stats

4 Jun 2015 by Sacha Barber

Powershell: Get process stats

Installing a SQL Server CLR Stored Procedure as a Hex String

30 Nov 2015 by Sarkis Matossian

Encoding a .NET assembly as a hex string to install in SQL Server.

Powershell script to monitor windows servers and populate it into a sharepoint list

29 Jul 2015 by LalithGallage

This powershell script is you to monitor windows servers’ free hard disk and populate it to sharepoint custom list.

SQL-Server-2008R2

Monitor BizTalk ports/suspended messages and send emails using Powershell script

6 Dec 2015 by Krishna P Seetharaman

This tip explains about a way using PowerShell to monitor all the disabled send ports/receive locations and suspended messages and send an email about these info

Data Migration using Sitecore PowerShell Scripts

19 Dec 2015 by dineshiam

This tip will give an overview to Sitecore developer about how to migrate data using Sitecore PowerShell scripts.

TFS Post-Build Check-in Using PowerShell

9 Feb 2016 by Jim Roth

Use PowerShell Post-build scripts to check in binaries to TFS for continuous integration during the build process.

Issues on powershell version 1.0

1 Mar 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak

You need to find out what's failing and then convert that code into something that works on an older PowerShell.There is no "automatic" or "setting" you can use or change to magically get it to work. Your code is using some feature that was introduced with PowerShell 2.0 that isn't available...

Ugh, WIFI Not Working or Unstable? Try This Tip....

17 May 2016 by MarkHawes

Ugh, WIFI not working or unstable? Try this tip....

Amazon Dash Button Detection via DHCP Request

4 Oct 2016 by Shawn K Lewis

Powershell script for Amazon Dash button Detection via DHCP Discover message

PowerShell Script to Split Single-file Routines Export from MySQL Server

28 Nov 2016 by Sujay Sarma

PowerShell script to split single-file routines export from MySQL Server

Export Selected Items from RSS Reader using Microsoft PowerShell

6 May 2017 by Tibor Blazko

Example usage of The Old Reader's and Inoreader's APIs

PowerShell Script to Automate Hyper V Snapshots

8 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

PowerShell Script to Automate Hyper V Snapshots

SCRIPT to Create an Event Source using PowerShell

8 Dec 2016 by Sujay Sarma

Here is a script to create an event source using PowerShell

About knowing which antivirus installed in a computer

17 May 2017 by Jochen Arndt

You are searching for product names containing "antivirus". So you will not find software that does not contain that string. You might even find software that is not an AV software. If you still want to use the Name property you have to search for strings that are used by the common AV...

SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 4

30 Apr 2018 by Ryan G Conrad

Using Powershell and Windows Task Scheduler API to detect malicious login attempts on a remotely accessible SQL Server database

Login VPN through Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client with Single Click

28 Jun 2018 by RamanaReddy V

Login to your VPN through CISCO with single mouse click jump to your VPN system below 30 seconds..!

Reuse a Single ClickOnce Build for Different Life-cycle Endpoints for an Application

31 Dec 2018 by Randy Kroeger

This article provides an example on how you can change application configuration settings within an existing ClickOnce publish, update the manifest files, followed by using the Mage utility for updating the manifest using the existing cert file.

How to Export VS Code Extensions to Another Computer using PowerShell

21 May 2019 by Tom Ling

How to export VS code extensions to another computer using PowerShell

Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal

20 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

How to customize the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 for custom font, look and feel, as well as setup terminals for git-bash, Node.js, PowerShell, and Azure Cloud Shell.

Articles: Generate SAS token to access Azure Storage

8 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

When you create an Azure Storage account to store files in a container you can set the permissions to what ever access level you want, and you can generate tokens to access the blob storage account with set periods of time. That’s what we’re going to do here today.. 0.

What Are Some Things I Can Do to Improve Application Availability?

12 Mar 2020 by Kevin Mack

What kinds of things should I avoid, or remove from my applications to improve my position moving forward

A Simple Excel VBA Development Workflow

29 Jun 2020 by Member 14874449

Walk-through and source code for an Excel VBA development workflow

Implementing Azure Information Protection in MS Office documents and PDFs programmatically

20 Jun 2021 by Aditya-Sharma0712

How to set classification label to an Excel/Word/PDF file at the time of its creation during runtime programmatically

How to remove special NTFS permission from folder and subfolders

9 Aug 2021 by Richard Deeming

You are disabling inheritance on every folder in the path. Each subfolder will have its own set of ACLs, which will potentially be different to the ACL on its parent. You then modify the ACL on the root directory. Since you've disabled...

How to write to excel at specific cell

7 Oct 2021 by Richard MacCutchan

See Introducing the PowerShell Excel Module - Scripting Blog[^].

Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length" getting error in powershell

19 Jan 2022 by Peter_in_2780

The error message is clear. The second argument (length) to Substring() is out of range, specifically it is negative. You have provided $pos as second argument, so the error message is telling you that $pos is negative at that point. You set $pos...

Count running process

24 Jul 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

Hi Guys:I'm trying to count the Stellar process from a remote server, my code snippets is given below:function GetProcessCount($serverName){ $serviceArray = Get-WmiObject -class Win32_Service -computerName $serverName ; $Counter = 0 $serviceArray | foreach { ...

Windows PowerShell register Dlls

11 Apr 2011 by Richard MacCutchan

simples[^], tsk!

PowerShell Script Examples for NuGet Packages

10 Jun 2011 by TheyCallMeMrJames

Here are some PowerShell script examples for NuGet packages

need to generate XML hierarchy using powershell for the given format

10 Sep 2011 by Richard MacCutchan

It would appear that all your SubChildNodes are being added to the first PNG node, rather than each one in turn. I have not been able to test this, but perhaps something like:$ParentNode =$file.Meta["Image"]for($j=0; $j -lt 10; $j++){ $ChildNode =...

find the largest size file using powershell

12 Sep 2011 by Prerak Patel

http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/04/27/finding-10-largest-files.aspx[^]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798040/find-the-10-largest-files-within-a-directory-structure[^]http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2009/08/11/powershell-how-to-find-large-files/[^]

How to get the latest created folder using powershell

12 Sep 2011 by Prerak Patel

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/thread/0df70854-7bd6-4434-be0e-f75fd71daa43/[^]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315304.aspx[^]

How to excute C# function using Windoes power shell

3 Oct 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Strange idea. I don't think your whole idea is really useful, but…You can create an "assembly host" .NET application which loads your assembly with functions Add, Multiply or any other, using Reflection, finds the method to be called by its full name (for example...

do i have powershell installed

26 Nov 2011 by Eduard Lu

you need to install powershell 1.0 first before installing powershell 2.0. These two are different.Regards,Eduard

Form Fonts in Powershell 1.0

5 Dec 2011 by Valery Possoz

Hello,Assi...

Custom CSharp Control for Powershell

7 Jan 2012 by Paul Jorgensen

Customizable Custom CSharp Control for the Powershell New-PSDrive cmdlet

Write .exe file for powershell script

15 Feb 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

You can do it, of course, but your whole script would become "interactive" (waiting for user input) which would make it pretty much useless as such. In this case, normal windowed application could be better, as the console application with interactive input would defeat the purpose of the...

Simple build script using Power Shell

13 Apr 2012 by Vivek Krishnamurthy

Power shell build script for multiple projects and solutions using MSBuild, with an option to fix the build error during the build and continue, without restarting the complete build.

Import PowerShell modules and excute CmdLets using Automation library

22 Feb 2013 by Bharat Nimba Pawar

importing powershell modules and executes CmdLets in windows application using Automation library APIs

Enter-pssession using c#

10 May 2012 by Sebastian T Xavier

Hello All,I would like to know how I can execute enter-pssession command using c# code.I have used following command to run it in powershell console. $secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "123$" -AsPlainText -Force $mycreds = New-object -typename...

Enter-pssession using c#

12 May 2012 by Umer Aziz Malik

May be this might be of any help to you:After the installation of WinRM ctpv3 and powershell ctpv3 you need to reference the correct System.Management.Automation.dll.First add a reference tag from within the csproj file that you wish to use the Automation library. To do this open the...

500 - Internal server error

15 May 2012 by Sandeep Mewara

This problem occurs because the handler mapping for the requested resource points to a .dll file that cannot process the request. To resolve this problem:Edit the handler mapping for the requested resource to point to the .dll file that can process the request. To do this, follow these...

Where is Microsoft.PowerShell.Security.Activities

15 May 2012 by Ganesan Senthilvel

Itz because ConvertToSecureString is not .NET class library, but itz PowerShell script. Just to give the background, Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting tool based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed for system administrators, engineers and developers...

how to launch the IE in normal mode from the elevated mode powershell

5 Jul 2012 by priypavan

Hi,I have a PS script, which will run all the cmdlets in the admin mode. I want to launch the IE in normal mode without admin previliges from the elevated mode powershell. can someone help me how to do this?thanks in advance

Using PowerShell to Generate TFS Change Manifest for Build Artifact Delivery

10 Aug 2012 by Gary Stafford

Use PowerShell 2.0 to aid in the delivery of build artifacts for release, by generating a manifest of file changes.

How to call powershell script with configfile,parameters in c#

22 Aug 2012 by Zoltán Zörgő

Why don't you use the PowerShell class[^]? It does several things for you.By the way, you dont pass parameters as parameters. Threat runspace pipeline as a process execution. You won't add parameters to the executable name, won't you? Use the CommandParameter[^] class. See here:...

How do I change the extension of a lot of files?

25 Aug 2012 by André Kraak

From Batch File Rename with Windows PowerShell[^]: Dir *.txt | rename-item -newname { $_.name -replace ".txt",".c" }

Extract worksheets from Excel into separate files with PowerShell

3 Sep 2012 by Bryan O'Connell

The title says it all.

How to migrate from Bash to PowerShell: find . -name '*.xml' | xargs tar -czvf data.tgz

16 Dec 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

By the way, found that Microsoft official documentation on PowerShell is prohibitively bad, even though v.3.0 is finally made well usable; and Intellisense is quite good. The best book I saw so far this one: http://www.pavleck.net/powershell-cookbook/[^].The problem with tar is: you would...

Windows Forms Application using PowerShell Commands to deploy a wsp file

28 Dec 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

As I say, writing a System.Windows.Forms application in PowerShell is quite possible.I've written this sample code write now while answering to this question. It tool me a couple of minutes. This is fully fledged minimalistic application, even with an event handler and few effects. Run it...

How to run multiple powershell script files in one powershell window started by a C# application using Process.Start()

28 Dec 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Doing so is a bad idea. Processes are well isolated. How are you going to communicate with the script? It's much better to invoke PowerShell from your .NET application.Please see this CodeProject article:How to run PowerShell scripts from C#[^].—SA

C# powershell multi valued parameter passing

30 Dec 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

The answer depends on the type and parameter passing options for the parameters of ResourceDelegates of the function Set-CalendarProcessing, in particular, if the parameter passed from the pipeline and processed correctly. If I can assume that this parameter can accept a list of values, the call...

Powershell script returns null when run from C#

27 Jan 2013 by Domocos Dorel

Hello.I have a working powershell script to get the Windows product key from an machine in our network. The script runs well in powershell comand line but returns error when I try to run it from C#. I need this working to chart licenses in our corporation.Powershell code:function...

Running Powershell within C# and capturing return value

26 Apr 2013 by Zoltán Zörgő

What you are trying to run won't run in an out-of-the box powershell session. The missing cmdlet is one for the Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 console. So if you run a lecay powershell, you will have to import ConfiguratioManager module (see:...

How to remove certificate using powershell

23 Jun 2021 by Ron Anoshi

Hi,There is some code online that is supposed to do what I'm trying to do, but it didn't work for me, trying it in the PowerShell commandline line by line.I am trying to delete a certificate from the CurrentUser\My store, by its' thumbprint:Quote:get-childitem...