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Finally worked the last annoying bug out of my FeedStoreProvider for Windows PowerShell yesterday. If you're interested, I was passing an integer as the first parameter to WriteItemObject() from within my GetChildNames override, and it was causing grief. Always pass strings from there, people! Anyway...
After my success yesterday in accessing the Common Feed Store from PowerShell , I started to wonder just how difficult it would be to write a provider for PowerShell so that I could access my feeds as if they were folders and files. You see, in PowerShell, you're not limited to hard drives and files...
My entry into Mitch's little game . I guess if you don't play the Xbox 360 you might not get it ....
Oh, this is just too much fun. Check this out - a PowerShell script to display the feeds you're subscribed to (in the common RSS store you get with IE7) which have unread items: $feeds = (new-object -ComObject Microsoft.FeedsManager); % { $feeds.RootFolder.Subfolders | % {$_.Feeds} | select-object -pr...
On Windows XP at least. Read the announcement on the IE Team Blog. It doesn't seem to be on Microsoft Update yet, but you can download it manually from the IE site . Haven't seen anything different from RC1 in the final release yet, so it looks like it's mostly bug fixes or performance improvements...
For the past few days I've been messing around with Windows PowerShell . PowerShell is the next-generation command-line environment for Windows and associated server products (for example, Exchange 2007 will use it as a command-line and scripting interface). It's way beyond anything you've...
Y'know the art of making movies using a video game's in-game engine? It's called machinima (or sometimes machinema) - a play on words of both 'machine' and 'cinema'. I was reading the wikipedia entry this evening and was surprised that they suggest that it is pronounced "ma-shin-e-ma" (that is, with...
In case you're interested, I've updated the screenshots on Comicster's site with shots of Comicster's new default skin (and one featuring the Green Goblin skin that you can download from the Skins forum ). Check 'em out . Here's a sample to get you started:...
For a while now I've been unhappy with the code that allows you to switch "skins" in Comicster. It has grown organically over the past year and a half and has evolved into the C# equivalent on the great Flying Spaghetti Monster . So last night I resolved to rewrite it in such a way that it...
I've been thinking recently about how I might approach the development of a completely new version of Comicster . Right now, Comicster uses an in-memory typed DataSet to store your collection, and when you save, it streams the DataSet (using WriteXml) to a compressed file on disk. That system works...