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NWA Code Camp 2009 is tomorrow
If you’ll be in the northwest Arkansas area tomorrow (April 25), be sure to come out for the NWA Code Camp. There will be presentations on everything ranging from LINQ and Silverlight to iPhone development. I’ll be presenting my PowerShell talk one more time as well. If I can count at all, it looks like there will be 15 different speakers total.
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Quickly Extract Files with PowerShell
This is just a quick post to share a very simple PowerShell script I wrote to extract files from a compressed file (zip, 7z, whatever). When downloading utilities that don’t have installers, like Sysinternals tools, I typically extract them to a Utils directory that is in my PATH. Previously, I would always do this by right-clicking, choosing the 7-Zip context menu option and then extracting to to c:\Utils. Another common option would be to extract to a folder of the same name.
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An Essential Tip for Working with Windows Forms
I couldn’t resist borrowing my title from Christopher Bennage’s post entitled “An Essential Tip for Working with XAML.” My “essential tip” is identical to what he has already shown for WPF (and Fabrice originally) - it just applies to Windows Forms instead of WPF :-)
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Getting started with WiX and Major Upgrades!
WiX Setup
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Finding the right exception to throw
If you’ve been writing .NET applications for a while, you’re likely aware that you’re not supposed to just throw Exception. Instead, if you’re dealing with a null argument, you should be throwing an ArgumentNullException instead. FxCop warns against cases like this.
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SQL Server 2008 Launch Event… Locally!
Tonight, the FSDNUG group participated in their first launch event ever - for SQL Server 2008! Woo!
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I’m thankful that my computer will type ‘2009’ for me
So, a year ago to the day, I posted my review of 2007 with a look towards 2008. To continue that age old tradition, I will now review 2008.
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PowerShell ISE Themes!
Last week, the PowerShell team released PowerShell v2 CTP3. And, of course, there was much rejoicing. I’ve got quite a bit I’d like to blog about regarding PowerShell, but I couldn’t wait to share one feature I love.
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Design-Time Data for Expression Blend
This post presents a problem that has been approached by others before, but I thought I’d offer yet another possible solution. But first, let’s introduce the problem!
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Neat LINQ statement to move newer files from the network
Thought I’d share the below LINQ statement I wrote recently:
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