Visual Studio Not Responding (beeping) when editing ASPX
I’m just going to share the solution, in case anyone else encounters this after installing Office 2007 or 2010 Yesterday I came across a very strange bug which was causing Visual Studio to lock up after a few (30?) seconds every time I opened an ASPX file for editing. I even uninstalled a few VS [...]
Windows PowerShell 2.0 SDK Released
So, the Windows PowerShell 2.0 Software Development Kit is basically a collection of samples, and it has been released separately from the Windows Platform SDK for a change, making the download a tiny 2.35MB … There are lots of examples in there in C# (no other languages), and honestly, some of them ought to make [...]
Windows Compatability Libraries Galore (including PowerShell 2 for XP)
Microsoft has been very busy this year … and in these last couple of months before the general availability of Windows 7, they’re trying very hard to crank out the tools necessary to encourage development of Windows 7 applications. The first tool out of the gate, of course, was the Windows API Code Pack for [...]
PowerBoots: The tutorial walkthrough
Updated to PowerBoots 0.1 An introduction to PowerBoots Please excuse me if I start by just copying the basic ideas of the Shoes Tutorial, but I figured that since PowerBoots is inspired by Shoes, that was as good a place as any to start. PowerBoots (or just “Boots”) is a PowerShell 2.0 module with functions [...]
A guide to PowerShell’s Advanced Functions
Someone asked on the PowerShell Newsgroup about writing Advanced Functions, and specifically: looking for a … guide to putting together an advanced function that is visible and usable every time I start Powershell. By visible I mean that when I do a ‘get-command’ I want my [advanced function]s to be listed alongside all the regular [...]
PowerBoots: Loading XAML Windows in PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0
Awhile back I wrote a series of posts about WPF From PowerShell From PowerShell” which were about how you could load XAML in previous PowerShell 2 CTPs to create WPF user interfaces … a few people have mentioned loading XAML in PowerBoots, and a couple of people have posted other samples showing XAML even since [...]
PowerBoots and Attached Properties
WPF uses a concept called “Attached Properties” to handle certain things, like when you put controls into a DockPanel. Basically, anything you put inside a DockPanel has a property “Dock” which you can set … but because the property is actually defined by the DockPanel, it doesn’t show up in PowerBoots, so you can’t just [...]
PowerBoots: PowerShell GUIs are now multi-threading
Announcing the release of PowerBoots 0.1 This release of PowerBoots is the most exciting release software I’ve cranked out in awhile. It finally has almost all of the features that I have thought of so far (we’re still missing proper support for attached properties). You can create pretty much any WPF element, including ones I [...]
PowerShell Modules, Metadata, and Mysteries
I’ve finally finished the first public release of PoshWpf, and was getting ready to ship it as part of a new release of my PowerBoots module. The idea is that I need PoshWpf itself to be a stand-alone module so that it can be used in production with PowerShell 1.0, until such time as PowerShell [...]
PowerBoots – Output Graphs to Images from PowerShell
Once I started playing with the new ability, introduced in PowerBoots 0.0.4 to easily add support for new graphical controls to PowerBoots, I found all sorts of fun widgets out there in open-source land. I’ll write about a few of them in the future, but for now I’m just going to stick with Visifire. After [...]