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Lightning-Fast Nested User Groups in C#

by Daniel Miller

This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance user/role security principal hierarchy.

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

by Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

Universal SMTP Code to Send Emails in .NET Apps

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan, Iqra Ali

Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.

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Rename HD Video Camera Files

by wkiess01

A Powershell script to rename HD video camera files using their original creation date

Creating, Modifying and Updating Docker Image from Container

by Benktesh Sharma

How to create, modify and update Docker image from container

Prepare Emails with HTML Body to be Sent from Outlook

by Marijan Nikic

A simple solution using Powershell for preparing emails from Windows batch in Outlook; supports HTML body

Error "Execution of scripts is disabled on this system" when run PowerShell script on Windows PowerShell Command Prompt

by Gaurang Majithiya

About "Execution of scripts is disabled on this system" error that people get when they run any PowerShell command for the first time

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Lightning-Fast Nested User Groups in C#

5 Dec 2015

Daniel Miller

This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance user/role security principal hierarchy.

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020

The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

27 Nov 2015

Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

Universal SMTP Code to Send Emails in .NET Apps

8 Aug 2017

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan, Iqra Ali

Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.

Http-Monitor using Powershell

17 Nov 2017

Daniele Fontani

A powershell script that monitors webs sites and trace logs into database.

Explore Blazor WebAssembly - use custom style, call external WebAPI, employ JavaScript interoperability

15 Apr 2020

Издислав Издиславов

This article will demo the usage of Blazor WebAssembly and how to create simple web application with it.

Deploy Node.js Application Running on Microsoft IIS 10 To Docker's Windows Server Core 2016 Containers

1 Sep 2018

Arthur V. Ratz

In this brief article, we will demonstrate how to deploy a Node.js application and run it on Docker's Windows Server Core 2016 Containers

Adding SMS notifications to your Windows Azure projects

30 Apr 2012

Luke Jefferson

Learn how to configure SMS alerts to fire based on your Windows Azure application deployment status.

Modify Windows BCD using Powershell

1 Nov 2020

awilson9010

Working with Windows BCD store in Powershell

Controlling Service Startup Order in Docker Compose

15 Sep 2018

Bogdan Marian

Ensure your Docker Compose services start in the correct order.

Unattended installation of SQL Server 2012

11 Jul 2016

Jesus Carroll

Despite the references of several sources of unattended installation of Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine, in this article describes a script tested in real production environments and it can be used with minimal or - perhaps - no modifications.

PowerShell: Create MSMQ

28 Oct 2014

Sacha Barber

PowerShell: Create MSMQ

Easy Command Line Parser

18 Oct 2020

Mohssine EL HARFI

ECLP in C#

Sharpoint 2010 deployment using Powershell

24 Oct 2011

manibe2k5

This article will assist you to deliver/deploy your Sharepoint site and its features using Powershell

Unity Interceptor for Performance Instrumentation

4 Apr 2013

Jean-marc Lai

Unity interception

Amazon Web Services part 4 - Cloudformation template to create a load balanced IIS/SQL Server web site using EC2, RDS and Route53

20 May 2015

Matt Perdeck

A fully functional sample Cloudformation template that generates a load balanced IIS/SQL Server based web site, plus PowerShell scripts to automatically deploy the web site on your EC2 instances

Export Selected Items from RSS Reader using Microsoft PowerShell

6 May 2017

Tibor Blazko

Example usage of The Old Reader's and Inoreader's APIs

SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 4

30 Apr 2018

Ryan G Conrad

Using Powershell and Windows Task Scheduler API to detect malicious login attempts on a remotely accessible SQL Server database

Reuse a Single ClickOnce Build for Different Life-cycle Endpoints for an Application

31 Dec 2018

Randy Kroeger

This article provides an example on how you can change application configuration settings within an existing ClickOnce publish, update the manifest files, followed by using the Mage utility for updating the manifest using the existing cert file.

Simple build script using Power Shell

13 Apr 2012

Vivek Krishnamurthy

Power shell build script for multiple projects and solutions using MSBuild, with an option to fix the build error during the build and continue, without restarting the complete build.

Using PowerShell to Generate TFS Change Manifest for Build Artifact Delivery

10 Aug 2012

Gary Stafford

Use PowerShell 2.0 to aid in the delivery of build artifacts for release, by generating a manifest of file changes.

Automatic Subscription of Azure Functions to Event Grid

19 Nov 2018

Leszek Koc

Automatic subscription of Azure functions to Event Grid

bash-like prompt in PowerShell and app run

11 Jul 2011

Atique Rahman

An article describing some of the tricks of PowerShell scripts and profile that enables you to get a bash like prompt in PowerShell and run applications more flexibly.

WinRM in Mixed Domain Environments

22 Jul 2011

TheCodeKing

Windows Remoting works perfectly for same domain situations, but has some gotchas in mixed domain scenarios.

STSADM Backup Error: The backup is from a different version of SharePoint

20 Sep 2011

Soptik Dutta

Explains an alternative way of stsadm restoration of a Site Collection.

SQL-Server-2008

Custom CSharp Control for Powershell

7 Jan 2012

Paul Jorgensen

Customizable Custom CSharp Control for the Powershell New-PSDrive cmdlet

Generating SQL Server CLR Assemblies report

10 Jun 2012

Manar Ezzadeen

PowerShell script that generates an HTML report displaying different information about the SQL Server databases, their CLR assemblies and owners.

Chromium Browser automated install/update via PowerShell

19 Jul 2012

Mikhail-T

Powershell script that automatically installs and updates your Chromium browser in Windows

Create HTML Report of Facebook URLs using PowerShell

18 Oct 2012

Jean Paul V.A

In this article we will explore a scenario of adding a custom User Profile property and generating a report based on it.

Using PowerShell and EWS to write/update public folder contacts

29 Sep 2014

LenJ67

Using PowerShell and EWS to write/update public folder contacts.

Exchange-Server

Reset username and password of IIS Server Application Pool

13 Aug 2018

Rajneesh Kumar Verma

How to reset username and password of IIS Server Application Pool

AppFabric Installation Failed Because Installer MSI Returned with Error Code: 1603

27 Jan 2019

Melick

How to resolve the issue: AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code: 1603

Using Azure Files, RemoteApp and dtSearch for Secure Instant Search Across Terabytes of A Wide Range of Data Types from Any Computer or Device

16 Oct 2015

dtSearch Corp.

The article brings together the Microsoft Azure Cloud with dtSearch to enable secure hosting of terabytes of a broad spectrum of data types combined with instant dtSearch search access from nearly any computer or device.

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Intel IoT Gateway: Windows 10 Getting Started Guide

19 Jan 2016

Intel Corporation

This document describes the steps needed to deploy a Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Gateway and explains how to set up security features, software access points, and other management and development tools.

product-showcase

Octopus Deployment Basics

3 Mar 2015

Ian_Paullin

For the past few months, I’ve been analyzing Octopus Deploy in terms of it’s components, architectural design and benefits of said design decisions. In this article, we’re going to bring everything together to see the sum of all the parts.

product-showcase

Learnings from a DevOps Hackfest with a Leading Professional Services Provider

30 Sep 2016

Rasmus_Hald

Thisarticle describes the results and how a "DevOps Duo" is now the new normal forthis professional services provider (PSP).

product-showcase

Introducing SQL Clone

10 Mar 2017

Redgate Software

SQL Clone exploits the existing virtualization technology within Windows to take much of the sting out of the traditional problems surrounding database provisioning.

product-showcase

Configuring Visual Studio for Obfuscation

29 Oct 2016

Ian Bell, #2

An introductory article that illustrates how to configure Visual Studio for Obfuscation

Easy Caching with C# and PostSharp

16 Dec 2013

Rafid K. Al-Humaimidi

Easily support caching in your C# application to improve its performance.

Code Coverage is Finally Easy in .NET Core

8 Nov 2018

Lee P Richardson

Code coverage is finally easy in .NET Core

SignalR with Self-hosted Windows Service

24 Jul 2019

john_1726

Two SignalR Demo Projects: Self-Hosted Windows Service and Broadcasting Application

Fixed Size Formatter

10 May 2010

Sion Cohen

A framework for declarative parsing and creating fixed sized raw data (Flat Files)

14 Sep 2018

Mahsa Hassankashi

This article describes MSMQ technology (publisher and subscriber) in order to communicate among distributed systems in the heterogeneous network and platforms.

Export and Archive your Projects on Schedule via Powershell => made easy!

7 Apr 2012

Mikhail-T

How to write a Powershell script, which will first export all your projects (excluding source control data), then pack them with 7-Zip.

PowerShell internals and PowerShell threading

28 Jul 2015

Oliver Kohl D.Sc.

This article presents you some capabilities of PowerShell like the usage of .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET threading.

Dealing with Powershell Inputs via Basic Windows Form

2 Feb 2016

SERGUEIK

In this article, few examples of embedding basic Windows Forms and WPF in Powershell script for collecting user inputs are given.

A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-1.

22 Aug 2010

Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part-1) is to introduce you with Microsoft Windows PowerShell.

Code Generation using C# Scripts (CSX Scripts) in Visual Studio

7 Aug 2020

Rick Drizin

How to run C# Scripts (CSX scripts), load third-party libraries, and generate code directly from inside Visual Studio

code-generation

How I Keep 30 Chocolatey Packages Up-to-date Without Losing My Mind

15 Oct 2018

BC3Tech

As of this writing, I manage 29 packages on Chocolatey.org. One thing it's imperative package authors do, though, is keep their packages up to date as new versions of the software they're wrapping get released. Without this, packages simply atrophy and the value of Chocolatey goes down.

VPNScripter: A Scripter for Windows' VPN Connections

3 Apr 2017

Federico Di Marco

Create quickly VPN connections in Windows according to a XML configuration file

Enable Remote PowerShell Execution in C#

27 Nov 2014

Zhuyun Dai

Talks about executing PowerShell script remotely in PowerShell console; also describes how to do the same thing in C# code.

Double layered application with PowerShell in the middle

8 Nov 2013

Václav Dajbych

How to support PowerShell in .NET application

Arduino Scheduler

16 Sep 2020

Member 4206974

A function that works on event of Arduino and ESP32 boards

A PowerShell Introduction

4 Oct 2014

Marco Bertschi

PowerShell is a very powerful tool, yet it's difference to the classic DOS command prompt gives you a hard time if you are used to the CMD. This article shall guide you into the World of PowerShell and give you an easy start.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell: Part 3

21 Aug 2010

Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 3) is to introduce you to Microsoft Windows PowerShell and learn some basic command of windows PowerShell.

PowerShell and XML

27 Feb 2010

shappell

Introduction to how easy PowerShell makes working with XML programmatically

SharePoint 2010 Logging Database

6 Apr 2010

Ayman M. El-Hattab

Four reasons to directly query SharePoint logging database

SQL-Server-2008

SQL-Server-2005

Use Excel in PowerShell without a full version of Excel

18 Oct 2013

Douglas M. Weems

Easily import Excel Sheets into PowerShell as PS Objects

Build WinPE using Windows Powershell

27 Apr 2014

awilson9010

Building WinPEs from AIK/ADK with Powershell

Video Streaming using Entity Framework and HTML5 in MVC5

13 Oct 2016

Sachin Makwana

Convert uploaded video to MP4 and store it in database. Create thumbnail of the uploaded video and Stream the video from Database using HTML5 video tag and Entity Framework.

How to Write a Custom PowerShell Cmdlet - Part I

11 Feb 2009

ByteBlocks

How to write custom PowerShell cmdlet.

Reboot and Resume PowerShell Script

8 Jul 2011

Lasse W

A first step in creating that magic "Developer PC Setup Script".

PowerShell 4.0 - What's New?

23 Sep 2013

Oliver Kohl D.Sc.

This article presents you the latest PowerShell technology like new or extended cmdlets, Desired State Configuration, Windows Management Framework 4.0, and more.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell - Part 4

22 Aug 2010

Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 4) is to give you an introduction on how to integrate Microsoft Windows PowerShell with the Microsoft .NET library

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell - Part 2

17 Aug 2010

Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 2) is to introduce you to using of VB / Microsoft .NET library, Function, Methods as well in your Microsoft Windows PowerShell script.

Deploy Sideloaded Windows 8 App in Production

31 Jul 2015

dpalash

Through this article, you will learn how to deploy the sideloaded Windows 8 app to production easily and maintain/provide regular upgrade version of the app.

Creating a Mozilla Firefox MSI for enterprise deployment

21 Apr 2014

awilson9010

Mozilla Firefox MSI using WIX and Powershell

Windows-Installer

How to Write a Custom PowerShell Cmdlet - Part II

10 Feb 2009

ByteBlocks

How to write a snap-in for your custom cmdlet for PowerShell.

Amazon AWSDeploy To Provision Multiple Websites

3 Feb 2013

TheCodeKing

This article provides a solution for deploying multiple applications to a single AWS instance when using AWSDeploy.

web_development

NuTemplates

20 Dec 2014

Erich Ledesma

How to make solution templates with NuGet packages

AngularJs Quick Start

12 Nov 2018

Tushar_Gupta

Quick Start tutorial for creating AngularJS applications

AWS Deployment With Octopus Deploy

2 Feb 2014

TheCodeKing

This article focuses on an alternative way to deploy and update .NET applications running on AWS EC2 instances, and mitigates the shortcomings of the AWSDeploy standalone tool.

web_development

NBitcoin Indexer: A Scalable and Fault Tolerant Block Chain Indexer

16 Sep 2014

Nicolas Dorier

Leverage Azure, powershell and NBitcoin for a fault tolerant and scalable block chain indexer

How to Manually Create NuGet Package

4 Feb 2019

Muhammad Idrees GS

This article will help you understand how to create NuGet package manually. It will demonstrate how to add a simple C# code file, making changes in app.config file, run powershell script and also add a dependency project.

Automate MSI Installer

17 Sep 2013

Durgesh Nakkani

This tool copies MSI installers from a distributed server and installs it on a VM Wrokstation

Deploy and use SPCopy: Part 2

5 May 2010

Not Active

Accessing functionality in SPCopy from Part 1.

Integrating SharePoint and Exchange for Conference Rooms Reservation Solution

20 Jan 2014

EastBancTech

EastBanc Technologies successfully created an architecture that provides a scalable and flexible solution built on Microsoft technology stack using all the advantages of an integrated solution.

Using Powershell to Backup your SVN Repositories

23 Jun 2009

TexasMensch

How to automate backing up Subversion repositories using Powershell

PowerShell Application - Password Manager

21 Jun 2016

Hydeen

This article, I'll show you how to start building Applications through PowerShell with help from .NET Framework GUI

Introduction to PowerShell (Move over Bash)

12 Apr 2011

Michael Ridland

Microsoft has now introduced Windows PowerShell (codename MONAD), a very powerful .NET based shell.

Dynamic Distribution Group Viewer (Sharepoint 2010 Webpart)

8 Dec 2010

Matt Kloss

Allows users to see who belongs to an exchange dynamic distribution group

Generating Entity Classes Dynamically Using Powershell Scripts

6 Aug 2011

Esteban Alvarez

Shows how to generate entity classes by calling an utility from a powershell script

Step by Step Angular 2 Implementation in Visual Studio Update 3

5 Apr 2017

ganesh16

We will see steps involved for implementing Angular 2 in Visual Studio with details.

MyBlobber: Access Windows Azure Storage Blobs

20 Nov 2009

bhavik1st

A simple C# command line utility to demonstrate access to Windows Azure storage.

Automating Task Creation in Team Foundation Server with PowerShell

14 Aug 2012

Gary Stafford

Automate the creation of Task-type Work Items in TFS using PowerShell

Installing multiple SQL scripts using a single PowerShell script

18 Sep 2013

Arjan Douwes

Installing multiple SQL scripts using a single PowerShell script.

Migrate SharePoint Taxonomy Term Stores from SharePoint 2013 On-premise to On-premise or On-premise to Online

16 May 2016

Bishnu D

Copy SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online Term Stores and their child objects with properties from one environment to another

MFC PowerShells Easily

24 Feb 2015

aljodav

A very easy way to drive PowerShell console application through MFC

Building CAML for querying List in SharePoint

19 Oct 2016

Atish Dipongkor

Writing CAML queries in a optimized, efficient and easiest way.

Lost and Found Identity Proper Case Format Provider (IFormatProvider implementation)

24 Jun 2009

kdmitry

Provides administrators with a way to re-format biographical data from case-insensitive data-sources.

IoC Container for .NET -Unity, Ninject, Autofac at a Glance

3 Dec 2015

Gaurav K Rastogi

This is the article which basically is the comparison between three most popular DIs in .NET.

WebAPI in Service Fabric

17 Jun 2018

Gunnar S

Moving ASP.NET WebAPI code to Service Fabric Cluster

Building First Console Application using Command Prompt in .NET Core 2.0

8 Jan 2018

Ehsan Sajjad

This is a step by step guide for beginner on how to install .NET Core 2.0 and create a Console Application without any IDE using Command Prompt/PowerShell

Automatic Publishing of Contents on SharePoint by Powershell Script

25 Jan 2011

Yogesh M Joshi

This article demonstrates the use of PowerShell script to publish contents on SharePoint site