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Since not all our files that are in TFS source control are used from Visual Studio it’s kind of overdone to start visual studio for getting the latest version of a SQL script. However, working with tf.exe is somewhat cumbersome too. The shear amount of commandline parameters got me wondering why I didn’t have a powershell script to make the task ...

I haven’t used powershell as an alternative for cmd with visual studio and .NET SDK stuff, because I was too lazy to fix up the environment variables with the required settings for this. This morning I decided that it was a good idea to finally solve this. David posted a very handy post on this subject so I’m not going to repeat the exercise ...

In this third part I'm going to show a demo of a powershell provider I created in dead moment on a Thursday evening (grin). This post is part of a series consisting of currently four parts (not all published, but that doesn't matter). The first two parts can be found here: Part 1 – Introduction to PowerShell customization Part ...

This is the second part of the series on customizing Windows PowerShell. This time I'm going to explain how to create your own commandlets. Commandlets are a very powerful way to extend the functionality of Windows PowerShell, it's also one of the most common scenario's people will use for extending PowerShell. Commandlet basics Every non-system ...

9 April A colleague and I held a presentation about Windows PowerShell. We discussed how to use it and how you can customize PowerShell. I didn’t quite have enough time to explain the whole deal on customization, so I’m going to do that in a series of posts. The preliminary table of contents for the series looks like this: Part ...

I bought my first digital camera a few years back, and used the setting to create sequenced numbering of the files in the format PICTxxxx, where xxxx would increment regardless of the date. At the time I was using the following directory structure:DCIM \2006 \200609 \20060919 \PICT9974.jpg \PICT9975.jpg After about ...