XamlReader and Resource Library fonts in WPF
Microsoft has provided some very good documentation on how to package fonts with WPF applications, and I’ve been following it in several different ways in different apps I’ve written. Recently I provided a feature in Posh Console which allows you to load the startup banner from an external file: StartupBanner.xaml. Loading the banner from an [...]
PowerShell Host and Custom Formatting
So, I’ve been working on PoshConsole for awhile now, and with the help of some of the guys in #PowerShell@irc.freenode.net have been playing with trying to find ways to enhance output, like using ANSI escape sequences, and even creating an Out-WPF cmdlet which can output objects as databound WPF controls which look really good. We [...]
A quick progress update on PoshConsole
Click for a teaser screenshot This is actually a bit scary, because you can load sort-of … anything To prove it (you’re gonna love this … I should take a video, really, but it’s time for bed, so this will have to do): check this out Beat that! So yeah, I have this control written [...]
Extending strings, and secure strings, in PowerShell.
One of the coolest things about scripting in PowerShell is that they’ve enabled the addition of extension methods to any class (object). Essentially, this means that you can add whatever methods This enables all sorts of utility functions that would normally end up in a library to instead be added to the base objects. Just [...]
PowerShell speaks
So, a buddy was showing off the “say” command in the Mac OS X terminal the other day (my 3 year old daughter was vastly entertained) and I wondered what it would take to do the same thing in Windows PowerShell … it turns out the answer is, not much. You just type this into [...]
Silverlight Streaming, Silverlight CLR, Data Services, Ozzie, and IE 8
Microsoft made several big announcements today at MIX07… CLR in Silverlight The most exciting announcement I’ve today is that Silverlight will include the Common Language Runtime (CLR) on both Windows and Mac … which means that it will allow development using any .NET-supported languages. They’re even including the open source Dynamic Language Runtime and thus [...]
What I learned today [17-Apr-2007] about [PowerShell]
I’ve been playing more with PowerShell lately, and there’s some really cool stuff in there! I though I’d post a few of my favorite discoveries. Generally speaking these are PowerShell user tips and tricks, because I’ve already been using PowerShell for a while, but since this is a “what I learned today” post, I’m not [...]
Downloads for Visual Studio
Well, the latest news is that Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is available, which finally includes official support for running Visual Studio on Windows Vista [o.o], as well as for “Web Application” projects in VS2005 — which means you have to uninstall the previous web application project add-in. While I’m writing about Visual Studio, and since [...]
MSDN Wiki to expand
MSDN is working to migrate the community content feature of the msdnwiki.microsoft.com site into their main site so that it can be expanded to the entire documentation library, including other localized versions of the Whidbey documentation in MSDN2 by the end of this calendar year.
LINQ and Blinq
Microsoft’s ASP.NET team has created a tool based on the May CTP of LINQ (see the very cool what’s new video) for generating websites that display, create, and manipulate data. All you do is point Blinq at a database, and it creates a website that displays the data, allows sorting and paging and updating, deleting [...]