Posts Tagged Microsoft
Listing executed actions – A PowerShell surprise
Posted by Morten in Uncategorized on June 27, 2011
I was hacking around in PowerShell the other day, when I managed to press a few buttons on my keyboard. To my surprise there were some GUI implemented into PowerShell. I did not know this, so here’s a post about this GUI awesomeness (warning for extremely beautiful interface designs).
Executing commands
Pressing F7 brings up this fantastic piece of UI: It allows you to scroll through the commands you’ve executed and selecting it visually from a list.
F9 brings up this:
This allows you to execute a command based on the number it has in the execution list.
using the two in combination by first pressing F7 followed by F9:
This allows you to see which command you want to execute before writing the actual number.
Modifying commands
F2 brings up this prompt:
It allows you to copy the currently typed command from the cursors current position up to a specific character.
F4 brings up this prompt:
This allows you to delete characters on the command line from the cursors position to a specific character.
Closing
All in all their not *that* amazing, but they were a pleasant surprise to see something new in the prompt.
A new version of Windows Live Writer
Posted by Morten in Uncategorized on April 25, 2011
I’m probably the last in the world to notice that there is a new version of Windows Live Writer available. It doesn’t upgrade it self when you ask the old version to check for updates. I found it purely by accident.
Once I downloaded it from here: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-writer?os=other
It upgraded the installed version of Live Writer, all my settings seem intact.
The new interface has a ribbon at the top instead of a toolbar. This might take some getting used to since I don’t particularly like it. Then again, I can hide it so I guess that’s an improvement.
Certifying for Windows 7
Posted by Morten in Uncategorized on April 9, 2010
I’m trying to get a Windows Application Certified for Windows 7. Once step is to run it through a certification program. The application doesn’t accept ClickOnce manifests so basically you cant even start the certification process without a MSI or EXE file. We’ll at least not from the UI.
I found the following issue reported:
I love the first answer. It just reeks of a “your wrong, I’m right”-attitude, when in fact the answer is wrong.
I’ll try to write up a post once I have a workaround.