Random outpourings of a software developer
This is a powershell version of get-service that works across remote machines (provided that you have sufficient access to the box).
function Get-ServiceRemote($computerName = “.”)
{
Get-WmiObject win32_service -ComputerName . | sort Name | select SystemName,State,Name,DisplayName
}
This can be passed through ft -Auto to become more readable.
A few scripts like these could be of great use in checking the state of a remote system.
I have been looking at how to easily consume json from C#.
Given the source of the data I don’t want to create specific types (I’ll be creating a dynamic wpf control to allow editing of json read from a configuration database).
This requires newtonsoft.json to be pulled from nuget and a reference made to newtonsoft.json.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
namespace SimpleJsonTest
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string json = @"[{""First"":""Chris"",""LastName"":""Pietschmann""}, {""First"":""Chris"",""LastName"":""Eyre""}]";
List<Dictionary> values = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Dictionary>>(json);
Console.WriteLine( string.Join(",", values[0].Keys));
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(",", values[0].Values));
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(",", values[1].Values));
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
This is a wonderful article on using StudioShell with the visual studio debugger.
This artictle shows how to script the local variables of the currently debugged process.
Given StudioShell has out-html and out-chart this allows the dynamic creation of visualised data straight from the current debug session.
StudioShell is a powershell console that is embedded into visual studio (it can also be invoked from the NuGet console).
It exposes the visual studio extension api known as dte as a set of powershell scripts.
BooleanToVisibilityConverter does not appear to work as expected in Silverlight 4.
This will magically return true for a missing value. This is annoying when you expect the value to be hidden.
Here is a powershell declarative language that can be used to check deployments.
This is a very useful addition to Nuget.
http://nuget.org/packages/AddReference
It allows command-line addition of packages to the current project.
It appears that if you need to add an explicit path (i.e. outside current directory or gac) then you can include the file extenstion.
This comment seems to be appearing in my code rather more frequently recently, especially as I have been working with WCF.
This should include the important information which tool generated the file, include version information and parameters used.
WCF code generation is rather weak. It includes 7 wierdly named hidden files. One of these includes a url reference to the web service that generated the client proxy.
If the config file for the service fails to include a reference to the service then the service that generated the client is used. This is very dangerous and will make production code accidently refer to a test server.
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