Monthly Archives: May 2006

I presented this past Saturday (May 20th) at the Front Range Code Camp in Denver on Windows PowerShell.  That was the first time I’ve been involved with a code camp.  It was fun.  Unfortunately my session was during the last time … Continue reading →

I wanted a way to be able to pick both individual lines from my history as well as ranges.  This is handy if you have been playing around at the prompt and want to copy a number of individual commands … Continue reading →

The following script allows you to run another PowerShell as a different user.  I use this sort of functionality when I’m testing software on another account (typically a standard user account).  I know, bad dev, I should be running as standard user instead … Continue reading →

Microsoft just posted a "refreshed" RC1 of PowerShell at:   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2B0BBFCD-0797-4083-A817-5E6A054A85C9&displaylang=en   One issue had to do with not recognizing digital signatures on VBS and MSI files.  The other was that RC1 wouldn’t install on 64bit Vista.

I’ve been testing some of our applications for Vista User Account Control compatibility on Windows XP using Application Verifier with the LUA Privilege Predictor.  This tools spits out some massive XML log files.  So big that Internet Explorer balloned up … Continue reading →