Monthly Archives: August 2014

More New Stuff in PowerShell V5: Extra PowerShell Auditing

With the latest Preview release of PowerShell V5 July (X86, X64), we get some extra capabilities for auditing PowerShell script tracing. Since PowerShell V3, we have had the capability of Module Logging in PowerShell, meaning that we can track the … Continue reading

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More New Stuff in PowerShell V5: Expand and Compress Archive Cmdlets

With the July release of PowerShell V5 Preview (Download links are 1/3 of the way down on the DSC download page), there are some new things that have been added that are worth talking about. Here are the direct download … Continue reading

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Revisiting Get-FileTimestamp with Reflection

Ever since I wrote my function to locate a file’s MFT (ChangeTime) timestamp, I wanted to take on an extra challenge by taking all of the C# code that included using pinvoke and rewrite it using reflection in PowerShell after … Continue reading

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PowerShell and WPF: Radio Button

I talked about working with CheckBoxes in my previous article and mentioned briefly how you can have them behave like a Radio button, but in the end, nothing beats the actual thing no matter how close you can make another … Continue reading

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PowerShell and WPF: Checkboxes

Continuing on with my series on PowerShell and WPF, I am going to talk about using checkboxes in a form. Checkboxes are a great way to allow a user to select a specific item or items prior to moving on … Continue reading

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