Category: Scripting

Scripting

Configuring Visual Studio

————————— Microsoft Visual Studio ————————— Microsoft Visual Studio TF30335: The server name cannot contain the characters ‘/’ or ‘:’, or start with ‘http://’ or ‘https://’. If the server name is an IPv6 address, it can contain the character ‘:’ only if the full name is enclosed by square brackets. ————————— OK Help —————————   When you try to configure a TFS 2010 project in Visual Studio 2008, you receive above error.  The fix is to have the Visual Studio upgraded to 2010 version.   The TFS server entries get added to the below HKCU registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9.0/TeamFoundation/Servers   Refer to Accessing […]

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PowerShell

PowerShell: F is for Format Operator

PS> "{2} {0}" -f "there", "ignore", "hi" hi there   Operator Example Results Description {0} Display a particular element "{0} {1}" -f "a", "b" a b {0:x} Display a number in Hexadecimal "0x{0:x}" -f 181342 0x2c45e {0:X} Display a number in Hexadecimal uppercase "0x{0:X}" -f 181342 0x2C45E {0:dn} Display a decimal number left justified, padded with zeros "{0:d8}" -f 3 00000003 {0:p} Display a number as a percentage "{0:p}" -f .123 12.30 % {0:c} Display a number as currency "{0:c}" -f 12.34 $12.34 {0,n} Display with field width n, left aligned "|{0,5}|" -f "hi" | hi| {0,-n} Display with field […]

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PowerShell

PowerShell Folder/Directory Creation

Script: $FldrName   = "NewFolder" $FldrParent = "C:Temp-New" $FldrPath   = $FldrParent + $FldrName [IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($FldrPath)   Output: Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name                                                                                                            —-                ————-     —— —-                                                                                                            d—-         11/9/2011  10:53 AM            NewFolder                                                                                                       Will create the whole path all along the specified folder location. It uses .net method Directory.CreateDirectory.   Script: $FldrName   = "NewFolder" $FldrParent = "C:Temp-New" $FldrPath   = $FldrParent + $FldrName $DirObj     = [IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($FldrPath) Write-Host "LISTING ALL _PROPERTIES_ ACCESSIBLE VIA CreateDirectory OBJECT METHOD" ForEach ($attribute in ($DirObj | Get-Member -membertype properties | sort name )) {        $atrrib = $attribute.Name         "{0,-20}: {1}" -f $atrrib, $DirObj.$atrrib }   Output: LISTING ALL _PROPERTIES_ ACCESSIBLE VIA […]

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