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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

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How to enable Bitlocker hardware encryption on self encrypting drives

VPNScripter: A Scripter for Windows' VPN Connections

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

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

2 Mar 2024 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

25 Jan 2024 by Wessel Beulink

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

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: select and sort text file

15 Dec 2023 by Richard MacCutchan

Try treating the content like a .csv file and using Import-Csv (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn[^] to create a set of custom objects. You should then be able to sort the objects. [edit] This seems to work: $A =...

Powershell: select and sort text file

14 Dec 2023 by Member 13174636

Hi, I have a text file test.txt with the following content: AAAA z 669 BBBB y 9555 AAAA z 5 BBBB z 48 CCCC y 1166 AAAA x 67777 BBBB z 223 I want to find lines with "z" and sort the resulting set according to last column. What I have tried:...

How to change IIS app pool password on multiple servers at once remotely?

28 Nov 2023 by taersious

Wrap this in a function (script block). $block = { ... your custom method ... } Then put the function call in a loop that runs on a list of servers as shown here: foreach ($Server in $Servers) { if (Test-Connection...

VPNScripter: A Scripter for Windows' VPN Connections

21 Nov 2023 by Federico Di Marco

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

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

Why do they use different encoding ...

8 Nov 2023 by ImfeldC (Switzerland)

When running the script extract below it used different encoding when running from command shell or as scheduled task! The relevant command is 'Add-Content', why does it be have different when running this directly wihtin a command window then...

Exception calling "executereader" with "1" argument(s): "no value given for one or more required parameters."

10 Oct 2023 by OriginalGriff

Check the content of $sql - if it refers to parameters like this:SELECT Description FROM MyTable WHERE ID = @ID then make sure that you have added the parameterized data to the $cmd object before you try to call ExecuteReader. And why are you...

Exception calling "executereader" with "1" argument(s): "no value given for one or more required parameters."

10 Oct 2023 by Damian Tsai

Not sure what's wrong with the command lines below. See the command lines and errors I received. # Load into datatable $dt = New-Object System.Data.DataTable $cmd.CommandText = $sql $dt.Load($cmd.ExecuteReader("CloseConnection")) Error...

How do I... Fix this issue that is not making mi server work.

13 Sep 2023 by Enrique Parris

Error: The partial main could not be found at Object.invokePartial What I have tried: The file is in the right place, so I tried to reinstate the file in my command terminal, using Windows PowerShell.

I have a powershell script that I need in batch. Unfortunately I don't have the experience with it and I wanted to ask if someone can help me with it.

30 Aug 2023 by OriginalGriff

To add to what the others have said, it doesn't quite work like that. We do not do your work for you. If you want someone to write your code, you have to pay - I suggest you go to Freelancer.com and ask there. But be aware: you get what you pay...

I have a powershell script that I need in batch. Unfortunately I don't have the experience with it and I wanted to ask if someone can help me with it.

29 Aug 2023 by Member 16081714

# Quell-Pfad $quelle = "C:\Users\tanc\Documents\Test\Quelle" # Zielpfad $ziel = "C:\Users\tanc\Documents\Test\Ziel" # Datum abfragen $date = read-host "Datum des Ordners eingeben (yyyymmdd)" # ordner ermitteln und diesen dann verarbeiten...

How do I... Fix this issue that is not making mi server work.

28 Aug 2023 by Pete O'Hanlon

Sounds like you're using handlebar here. In your app.engine call, you have the option to define a partialsDir like thisapp.engine('hbs', hbs({ // other settings here partialsDir : [ path.join(__dirname, 'views/partials'), ] }) ); Move...

Automatic Subscription of Azure Functions to Event Grid

14 Jun 2023 by Leszek Koc

Auto subscription of Azure functions to Event Grid

Using WinSCP and PowerShell Script to Copy or Move Files from a One Virtual Machine/Remote Server Path to a Path in a Local Server

7 Jun 2023 by Micah Ebohon

When you want to get files from a remote machine and needed by a system or other process, it is possible using WinSCP and PowerShell script.

virtual-machine

Connect to Azure SQL Database with PowerShell Core

25 May 2023 by Illya Reznykov

The post describes how to use token-based authentication to run SQL queries against Azure SQL Database.

SQL Server Database Inventory using PowerShell

8 May 2023 by Dathuraj Pasarge

Extract SQL Server DB inventory\baseline using TSQL and PowerShell scripts

Exit kiosk mode with local account in windows 10

3 May 2023 by huynhminh97

I tried to set up kiosk mode for my laptop to run WPF single app. Firstly, I turn on Shell Launcher in Turn Windows features on or off and run script in powershell with admin right to open my WPF app then restart device. After restart and login...

Exit kiosk mode with local account in windows 10

3 May 2023 by Graeme_Grant

Did you try rebooting in safe mode? This should get you back in.

Exit kiosk mode with local account in windows 10

3 May 2023 by OriginalGriff

We really can't help you - we have no access to your app or your system, and you probably need both to get anywhere. I'd suggest you start with MS tech support - they can at least dial into your machine and see what is going on, which we can't.

How to create windows service in powershell?

9 Apr 2023 by baburman

I want to launch a simple windows service through Windows PowerShell ISE. My code is as below: $serviceName = "BabServiceInPowerShell" Class BabServiceInPowerShell : System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase { ...

How to create windows service in powershell?

9 Apr 2023 by 0x01AA

OnStart and OnStop are not events the .NET object System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase does expose. These are virtual Methods you can ovveride in case you derive from ServiceBase. For more infromation please read this: Register-ObjectEvent...

Looking for a CMD or script commands or way to export single registry entry from a registry key

25 Mar 2023 by l o o l

Understand that this is true said by Dave-Kreskowiak You cannot export a single value. You would have to write your own tool to do that A bat would do that, but use a filter and a temp file: @echo off set "_hkey=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Dinesh" >nul reg...

Looking for a CMD or script commands or way to export single registry entry from a registry key

25 Mar 2023 by Dinesh Kumar Dora

How can i export only a single reg entry from a reg key? I dont need all the subkeys or entries or values to be exported. Just a specific single reg entry. I tried reg export but it exports the whole reg key with whole reg subkeys and other...

Controlling Service Startup Order in Docker Compose

20 Mar 2023 by Bogdan Marian

Ensure your Docker Compose services start in the correct order

How to convert (or run) powershell in C#

15 Mar 2023 by Hm Grossman

Using visual studio window designer; include PowerShell on button clicks. For example run run an MSI installer on ok button click? What I have tried: I don't know what to try but my window is built in vs.

How to convert (or run) powershell in C#

15 Mar 2023 by OriginalGriff

Save it as a .PS1 file, and use Process.Start to execute the file.

How to receive events from iTunes in powershell?

12 Mar 2023 by hans.sch

I created a PowerShell script that accesses iTunes on my PC, but I failed at receiving events from the iTunes object. The code which I found on the internet (in fact, Chat GPT recommended this code) is: $eventHandler = {Write-Host...

Cleaning Up User Profiles with Powershell

9 Mar 2023 by Bruno van Dooren

How to clean up user profiles on a computer

I have a section in json , how do I itterate through it to get values

6 Mar 2023 by Mandavali

I have a nested json that I am working on converting to csv here is section in it that is not in Square bracket, that I would like to iterate.. How do I do that to get the data "answers": { "1": { ...

I have a section in json , how do I itterate through it to get values

6 Mar 2023 by Richard MacCutchan

See ConvertFrom-Json (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn[^] and ConvertTo-Csv (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn[^].

Looking for a CMD or script commands or way to export single registry entry from a registry key

3 Mar 2023 by Dave Kreskowiak

You can't. There is no tool that comes with Windows that will export anything other than an entire key and all of its sub-keys and values. You cannot export a single value. You would have to write your own tool to do that.

Looking for a CMD or script commands or way to export single registry entry from a registry key

3 Mar 2023 by Richard MacCutchan

PowerShell is fun :) Export registry information using PowerShell[^] Batch Script - Reading from the Registry[^]

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.

How to change button caption dynamically with burnttoast?

19 Feb 2023 by MrSorrow1993

I use BurntToast module in order to throw toast notifications in Windows 11. Here is my notification: https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWOV1.png When I click Pause button, its caption should be changed to Resume and its argument should be changed to...

How to change button caption dynamically with burnttoast?

19 Feb 2023 by Andre Oosthuizen

The following might help - $Button1 = Get-ChildItem -Path 'SomePath\SomeFile' | Out-GridView -OutputMode Single -PassThru -Title 'SomeTitle' | ForEach-Object { $_.name } if ($button -eq 'pause') { $button = 'resume' } Write-Host "Button...

How to fix error E212 of neovim in powershell on windows?

22 Dec 2022 by Rupesh yadav 2022

. $env:USERPROFILE\.config\powershell\user_profile.ps1 ERROR:E212 cant open file for writing:no such file or directory What I have tried: i gave all permission to user_profile.ps1

How to fix error E212 of neovim in powershell on windows?

22 Dec 2022 by Gunesh Shanbhag

Above error comes because you dont have a default powershell profile file IN powershell terminal Run, echo $PROFILE Output will be in this format which is the path to default powershell profile eg....

Get AWS CloudWatch Log Group with PowerShell Core

23 Sep 2022 by Illya Reznykov

Functions that manipulate CloudWatch log group by PowerShell Core

Get AWS Web ACL with PowerShell Core

18 Sep 2022 by Illya Reznykov

Functions that get information about web ACL by PowerShell Core with AWS CLI

Command is working on powershell but it is not working through C# exe

6 Sep 2022 by Member 14686752

Powershell Command is: Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex 11 -InterfaceMetric 99 This command is working when I run it on PowerShell as admin. but: C# Code PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create(); ps.AddCommand("Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex...

Command is working on powershell but it is not working through C# exe

6 Sep 2022 by Member 15758983

Use AddScript() instead of AddCommand() and it will work

How to install applications from software center through powershell

2 Sep 2022 by Member 15755436

$SCApplicationName = 'Office 365 Setup' $SCApplication = Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\ccm\ClientSDK" -Class CCM_Application | where {$_.Name -like $SCApplicationName} [hashtable]$Arguments = @{Id = $SCApplication.Id;IsMachineTarget =...

How to pass string parameter containing spaces from .cmd file to powershell (.ps1) file ?

24 Aug 2022 by Member 9346617

Hello Everyone, I want to pass below string parameter from cmd to ps1. The string that I want to pass has spaces in between. As a result, I believe, it is not able to read the entire string. string parameter - ...

How to pass string parameter containing spaces from .cmd file to powershell (.ps1) file ?

24 Aug 2022 by Richard MacCutchan

Just put it in double quotes: Foo.ps1 "\\Intranet.abc.com\afhb-emea\GROUP\IND\IT\SharedServices\Pune Ravet\Test"

VS code powershell shows "←]633; P; iswindows=true" with beep

10 Aug 2022 by Member 15733198

I am using vs code for python codding and i was trying to upgrade pip and in the process my terminal showed this weird text with beeping noise. The weird text: ←]633;P;IsWindows=True 633;A633;P;Cwd=C:\Users\ENJOY.ENJOY-PC\Downloads\Python...

How to change IIS app pool password on multiple servers at once remotely?

8 Aug 2022 by Sai Darshan 2022

We have a requirement to change our application's IIS app pool password everytime it expires. Currently, we have to manually login to each server adn run a snippet of PowerShell code which changes the password. Here is the code we run on each...

How do I read from a text file and parse each line in powershell

5 Aug 2022 by User 15325224

I have a text log from an automated test that looks something like this: Start: 2022-08-01 19:18:39 - Auto_Performance_Test TestCase_Import SUCCESS 19.851s TestCase_VerifySOMETHING_begin SUCCESS 1.339s ...

How do I read from a text file and parse each line in powershell

5 Aug 2022 by Richard MacCutchan

Here is a starter that can extract all the time values: $regex = 'TestCase_' foreach($line in Get-Content -Path $mylog) { if($line -match $regex) { $test, $success, $time = $line.Split() $time = $time.TrimEnd('s') ...

How to install applications from software center through powershell

14 Jul 2022 by Dave Kreskowiak

You copied nearly every character from a year old question into "your" question, and didn't bother to read the comments on the original question? The comments in the original question would have given you the answer you're looking for.

How to install applications from software center through powershell

14 Jul 2022 by Member 15706520

I'd like to use PowerShell to get a list of available applications in the Software Center, and then pick the ones I wish to install on a local computer with a PowerShell script. What I have tried: Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\ccm\ClientSDK"...

How to install applications from software center through powershell

14 Jul 2022 by Richard MacCutchan

See the suggestions at How to install applications from software center through powershell[^]

Matching list of words but not when found inside longer words

12 Jul 2022 by Soskipic

Select-String -Pattern "\b($($keywords -join '|'))\b"-AllMatches

regular-expression

Matching list of words but not when found inside longer words

12 Jul 2022 by Soskipic

I have a list of keywords (sometimes with non-alphanumeric characters) that I’d like to find in a list of files. I can do that with the code below, but I want to avoid matching keywords if they are found inside another word, e.g.: Keywords.csv:...

regular-expression

Reading OPC DA Data in PowerShell

5 Jul 2022 by Bruno van Dooren

How to read data from OPC DA servers into a PowerShell script

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.

Problem : run console application exe having confirm prompt (using powershell script in background)

26 May 2022 by taljit

I am trying to run a console application in background using powershell script and in the main method of "program.cs" it requires user confirmation. Working of this console application is to update some configurations and settings before i...

Problem : run console application exe having confirm prompt (using powershell script in background)

26 May 2022 by Gerry Schmitz

Redirect "standard input". process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true; process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; Give user input for batch file via c# code - Stack Overflow[^]

How to export the the powershell result to one txt file

26 May 2022 by Silver Lu

Windows instance run the following PowerShell command： Invoke-RestMethod http://100.100.100.200/latest/meta-data/ram/security-credentials/EcsRamRoleDocumentTesting then it will Obtain a temporary authorization Token result： { "AccessKeyId"...

How to export the the powershell result to one txt file

26 May 2022 by Richard MacCutchan

Use Out-File (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs[^].

How to fix error E212 of neovim in powershell on windows?

12 May 2022 by OriginalGriff

It's not the powershell file itself that needs permissions, it's one of the commands it contains that is trying to output to a specific file that causes it. Probably, it's trying to reference a folder that doesn't exist. Start by looking at the...

Need to convert Powershell syntax to C#

11 Apr 2022 by Scott C Hall

I need to a add a functiion in my existing web service to apply the 'Allow to Authenticate' rule to a computer. This has been a manual process in the past done with a PowerShell script we need to convert this to C#.The allowed to authenticate is an extended right.You can set it using...

How to Copy the Certificate with PowerShell Core

21 Feb 2022 by Illya Reznykov

PowerShell script which copies certificate to another storage

Call SOAP method using powershell core

3 Feb 2022 by JRivord

I have a script that is using PowerShell 5.1 and calling New-WebServiceProxy. I want to make this work in PowerShell Core (7.1). I have spent several hours trying to resolve this issue. Some of the best places I have found are...

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

19 Jan 2022 by harish koripelli

while running this in PowerShell $command1 = 'git shortlog branch..branch1 --oneline --pretty="%an committed %h %s"' $A=iex $command1 Write-Host "Starting" Write-Host "testing " foreach($i in $A) {$pos = $i.IndexOf(":") $leftPart =...

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...

Get virtual machine names in powershell via C# (hyper-V)

17 Dec 2021 by Member 14992347

I am trying to get the list of virtual machine names, from a local Hyper-V server, with the following code: string _scr = ("Get-VM | Select -ExpandProperty Name"); var _ps = PowerShell.Create(); _ps.AddScript(_scr); Collection _cObj =...

virtual-machine

Get virtual machine names in powershell via C# (hyper-V)

17 Dec 2021 by Empty Coder

Get-VM only works in a PowerShell session run as administrator. When I try your C# code run as an administrator it does print VM names. When I try it without administrator rights I get no output, same as you - but there is an error reported if...

virtual-machine

How to use argument to get path file as an input data to other script in powershell?

14 Dec 2021 by Member 15467879

Write a program to list all the directories and the corresponding files, under these directories,

How to use argument to get path file as an input data to other script in powershell?

14 Dec 2021 by Member 14156312

0 I want to read a 2 of text file (Byte2.txt and FB.txt), but I dont want to put the path on the script, I want to use argument when I run the script from command line to parsing the path to my script. My expextation, when I run the script from command line : $PowerShell.exe Script.ps1 arg1...

How to remove everyone permissions for NTFS and add authenticated users

29 Nov 2021 by Member 13967067

Hi All, I have a script to remove Everyone permissions for NTFS and add Authenticated users, but I am using the SMB share to remove and add but that is not working for the Subfolders, can I do that using the ACL permissions instead of SMB...

One More Solution to Calling PowerShell from C#

26 Nov 2021 by Tomasz Malicki

Basic PowerShell handler C# class with an explanation

Don’t Build Games from Scratch Part 1: Creating and Deploying Multiplayer Servers on Azure PlayFab

23 Nov 2021 by Raphael Mun

In this article, we explore packaging then deploying a game to Azure PlayFab servers.

How to remove special NTFS permission from folder

21 Oct 2021 by Empty Coder

Hi All Below is the code I am currently using to remove the special NTFS permission from folder This code is working fine and removing the special permission from the folder. But the problem is the folder is also having 2 SYSTEM permission. 1...

Search file using regex for url

11 Oct 2021 by rjb911

Hi, Would someone be so kind to help with regex question? I have an html file I need to search for all urls contained within href attributes that are not in a list I have specified. I need to return every line that contains a url that is not...

How to write to excel at specific cell

7 Oct 2021 by Empty Coder

Hi All I have below data which I want to write to existing excel sheet Error: 48 Ignored: 15 Want to put the data like below e.g. E8 - Error F8 - 48 E9 - Ignored F9 - 15 What I have tried: Need idea for how to do this in existing excel.

How to write to excel at specific cell

7 Oct 2021 by CHill60

See your previous question Excel formulas to find MIN, MAX and difference of time in powershell[^] The link I provided in my solution gives a specific example of how to put data into a specific cell.

How to write to excel at specific cell

7 Oct 2021 by Richard MacCutchan

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

Excel formulas to find MIN, MAX and difference of time in powershell

6 Oct 2021 by Empty Coder

Hi All Below is the data i have in excel Server Name Control Group Tape Number Status Transfer Start Date Transfer Start Time Transfer End Date Transfer End Time BR502V7C QCLDUSYSW Q23028 ACTIVE 25-09-2021 ...

Excel formulas to find MIN, MAX and difference of time in powershell

6 Oct 2021 by CHill60

If I was trying to find the minimum and maximum values of data in Excel I would just use a pivot table - either a straight forward pivot or a pivot query using Power Query. In Excel it's probably best to combine the date and time into a single...

Extract text file data as column and write to excel

5 Oct 2021 by Empty Coder

Hi All Below is the data I am getting in NewLines -Ignored:31,Modified src data,all *file,MINOSFIC/UTMNUP10 -Ignored:33,Modified src & tgt data,all *file,MINOSFIC/UVEGAP10 -Ignored:92,Synchro is running,*file,MINOSFIC/VM010P50...

Extract text file data as column and write to excel

5 Oct 2021 by Richard MacCutchan

Try this: $data = Get-Content 'file.txt' | Select -SkipLast 1 $Lines = @("Error Code, type, object") foreach ($line in $data){ if($line -match "Ignored") { $parts = $data[0].Split(" ",...

Extract text file data as column and write to excel

5 Oct 2021 by Richard MacCutchan

I just tried your code and the output was: -Ignored:32 Modified tgt data all *file MANHIN_SV/MCRHA52268 -Ignored:32 Modified tgt data all *file MANHIN_SV/MCRHA52269 -Ignored:32 Modified tgt data all *file ...

Append a column to existing csv file

1 Oct 2021 by Empty Coder

Hi All Below is the existing data I have in my csv file "Server","Disk ###","Status","Size","Free" "s1","Disk 0","Online","100 GB","1024 KB" "s1","Disk 1","Online","6144 MB","1024 KB" "s1","Disk 2","Online","200 GB","1024 KB" "s1","Disk...

Get column values from text file

30 Sep 2021 by Empty Coder

Hi All Below is the text file data I have Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 100 GB 1024 KB Disk 1 Online 6144 MB 1024...

Get column values from text file

30 Sep 2021 by Richard MacCutchan

You can use about Split - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs[^] to separate the fields of the input. You then just need to use Write-Output to rewrite as required. Note that you need to call the code that does the rewriting once gfore every server....

Batch Uninstall Devices in PowerShell

16 Sep 2021 by Fringe Coder

How to uninstall multiple devices at once using PowerShell ISE

Find project dependency and build the projects sequentially.

12 Sep 2021 by Lokesh Zende

Hi, Is there any way to find the dependent projects in the solution and build the projects accordingly sequentially. The project with no dependencies will build first. Then the other projects which are dependent on the first project and so on. ...