Author Archives: Boe Prox

Translate Color Name to ARGB Using PowerShell

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Boe Prox

ARGB stands for Alpha Red Green Blue and is something I use quite often when I work with a WPF and want to get a color for font or something else. Basically, if you want a color like Green, sometimes … Continue reading →

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Finding a File’s MFT Timestamp using PowerShell

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Boe Prox

During my last couple of articles dealing with writing and reading files without updating their LastAccess and LastWrite timestamps which has seen a bit of popularity from folks.  While these methods work great for the casual onlooker, digging down deeper … Continue reading →

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Fix Spaces in Hyperlinks That Exist in a Word Document

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

While hanging out in the PowerShell forums, I came across a question that talked about going out to a Sharepoint site and finding all word documents and then scanning each document and fixing all of the hyperlinks that had spaces … Continue reading →

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TCP Communication with PowerShell Available in MEAP

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

One of my chapters in the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book just became available as part of the MEAP program at Manning. If you aren’t a part of the early access program, you should definitely check it out! Otherwise, you … Continue reading →

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Fun with PowerShell and Permutations

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Boe Prox

Somewhere a while back I was reading about working with trying to find all possible combinations of a given word, called Permutations. Since my main goal was to take a given word (or string) and cycle through all of the … Continue reading →

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