Automatically Updating .SLN files to VS 2012
Visual Studio 2012 finally gave us backwards project compatibility so you can slide between VS 2010 and VS 2012 as you needed. It’s a great feature and one we’ve sorely […]
Fixing TFS 2012 Power Tools PowerShell CmdLets in PowerShell x64
The TFS 2012 Power Tool installation only installs the TFS PowerShell Snap-In for the 32-bit flavor of PowerShell on an x64 machine. With nearly all developers running x64 machines, we […]
Updated PowerShell Scripts to Manage Symbol Server and Source Server Settings
With Dev 11 Beta now in our hot little hands, I needed to update my symbol server and source server PowerShell scripts that automate setting up a developer machine. I’ve […]
Setting the Power Plan with PowerShell
Edit: Make sure to read the comments from Shay Levy and Richard on clarifying my mistaken assumptions about how things work in PowerShell. Thanks to Richard & Shay for the […]
Performance Profiling Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step
It turns out you can profile Silverlight 4 applications. Really! But the steps are scattered about the web in bits and pieces, so I wrote this to pull them all […]
Updated PowerShell Script for Setting Your Symbol Paths
Here’s my latest script for setting up a user’s_NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable as well as Visual Studio 2010’s symbolsettings. In a previous version of this script, I wasn’t setting the publicsymbol […]
Upcoming PowerShell Podcast Interview
If you haven’t guessed by now from my blog, I have a little bit of a passing interest in PowerShell these days. Hal Rottenburg from PowerScripting Podcast will be interviewing […]
Getting PDBs and Source When You Can’t Access Your Symbol Server
The other day I wrote about using SYMCHK.EXE from the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDBG) install to pre-populate your symbol server cache. That prompted a question I got in email: […]
Start-PowerShellPoint
Working on my PowerShell for Developers presentation I’m doing at our upcoming Devscovery Conference in NYC (April 27-29) it was a no brainer to use Jeffrey Snover’s excellent Start-Demo script […]