Author Archives: Boe Prox

More New Stuff in PowerShell V5: A NEW Way to Construct Things

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Boe Prox

Usually we can build out a new instance of a .Net object we have to use New-Object and pass the required parameters to accomplish this. Or at least that is the most common approach to the subject. We can also … Continue reading →

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More New Stuff in PowerShell V5: Extra PowerShell Auditing

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Boe Prox

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

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Boe Prox

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

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Boe Prox

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

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Boe Prox

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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