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An Intro to GitHub GraphQL API

Jenny — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:00:27 +0000

How to Use GraphQL API with PowerShell – A GitHub Example In my work on a recent customer project, I came across the need to make a GraphQL API call with PowerShell to query and set branch protection rules on a repository in GitHub. I couldn’t find a suitable solution, so I wrote this blog…

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Data-Fetching from Oracle SQL Using PowerShell

Mike — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:28:43 +0000

Making an Oracle SQL Database and PowerShell Play Together As an SDET, my work often involves dealing with automated tests in different capacities. However, as I like to remind folks, the skillset of an SDET can extend beyond the standard expectations of knowing how to write Selenium tests. Other aspects of the role include fetching…

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PowerShell Video: Desired State Configuration (DSC)

IntelliTect — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:08:33 +0000

PowerShell Simplification Learn to configure computers using PowerShell but with better syntax, less effort, and fewer errors using DSC. When configuring remote systems using PowerShell, it often can involve lots of hands-on time settings up environments, spinning up cloud instances, and running various scripts. This is not the only option! You can automate PowerShell processes.…

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Using Enter-VsDevShell in PowerShell Consoles

Kelly — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:04:08 +0000

A New Way to Add Visual Studio Tools to Your PowerShell Environment With Enter-VsDevShell PowerShell All the Things For many years I’ve enjoyed using a PowerShell console as my go-to CLI for interacting with .NET projects and solutions. So one of the first things I do when provisioning a new developer machine is grab a…

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PowerShell Script Provides Simple Change History File

Grant Erickson — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:29:14 +0000

External code audit? Need a list of TFS file changes during a specific time frame? Consider using a PowerShell script. While history in TFS can provide a list, it does it by change set, not by file. To see it by file, only one file can be seen at a time. PowerShell script can get…

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PowerShell Write-Error Without Writing Stack Trace

Mark Michaelis — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 03:49:11 +0000

Trouble Shooting Errors Recently, I was trying to display the errors and warning from a DotNet Build. While the warnings all displayed correctly, the errors always included the stack trace: I was able to control the error output slightly by varying the global $ErrorView variable, but the only two options were NormalView or CategoryView, neither of…

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How I Installed Software on a Server Using PowerShell

IntelliTect — Tue, 02 May 2017 00:57:25 +0000

Installation I was tasked with installing custom and generic software on a dozen new servers. As an SDET, I have never done this type of task before, so I googled some methods for automating this process since manually installing each server was time-consuming. PowerShell seemed to be the logical tool for running through my list of tasks. I was…

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PowerShell Dynamic Parameters: Moving Among Branches

Kelly — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:37:52 +0000

Efficiency Branches, anyone? I am currently working on a large integration project that uses a PowerShell script within each sub-module to manage building, deploying and even launching Visual Studio. Due to a reliance on code namespaces matching with folder structures, these PowerShell scripts are sprinkled all over a large directory structure. Fortunately, they are well-named…

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Essential .NET: PowerShell Just Keeps Getting Better

Mark Michaelis — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:53:26 +0000

Improvements of PowerShell PSGallery Untrusted As a result, Find-Module works without issue. However, Install-Module will prompt you with an untrusted repository warning. To avoid this, assuming you do indeed trust the repository, you can set it to trusted with the command: Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted Apt-Get for Windows with PowerShell Package Management Those of…

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Using PowerShell’s Invoke-RestMethod to Access VSTS OData

Mark Michaelis — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:44:38 +0000

How-to Access VSTS OData Given that Microsoft has abandoned their TFS CmdLets, one alternative is to access VSTS data is through the OData interface using the Invoke-RestMethod. Before you begin you need to set up Alternate authentication credentials by navigating to https://.visualstudio.com/_details/security/altcreds. Once these are established, you will likely want to save them to a local…

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Deploying Windows Services With Psake and Web Deploy

Kelly — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:00:15 +0000

A Simplified Way to Deploy New Releases At IntelliTect, a common pattern of our client solutions are windows services that process work on either a scheduled basis or watch a file location. We often use a combination of the Topshelf framework with the TopShelf.Quartz job scheduling package to solve these problems. These packages expose a…

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Correcting an Exception When Loading Program

Mark Michaelis — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:36:21 +0000

Load From Exception: "An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format." While trying to load an assembly into PowerShell recently, an exception occurred, "Exception calling "LoadFrom" with "1" argument(s): "Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///…’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an…

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Removing Duplicate Entries From %PATH%

Mark Michaelis — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:29:40 +0000

How-to Clean Up Your %PATH% As developers, we frequently end up with duplicate entries in our path. From the command line you can clean up your path using pathman.exe. Here’s a PowerShell Script to find the duplicates and remove them using Pathman.exe: $extraPath=(($env:path.Split(';') | group | ?{$_.Count -gt 1}).Values | %{$_[0]} pathman.exe /ru $extrapath Disclaimer:…

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Configuring Windows SMTP Server on Windows 2008 for Relay

Mark Michaelis — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:47:09 +0000

Send Email Directly on TFS Estimated reading time: 6 minutes My SMTP mail server requires that email be sent with TLS encryption and on port 587. This makes it problematic for Team Foundation Server (TFS) to send emails directly. To work around the problem, I installed the Windows 2008 SMTP Server service and configured it for…

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Turning Off IE Enhanced Security From the Command Line

Mark Michaelis — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:55:54 +0000

Using Command Line to Turn Off IE Enhanced Security For the most part I have much of the install for Windows 2008 operating system and programs automated (unattended). However, one thing that I found a little more difficult to find was a command line way to turn off IE’s Enhanced Security (manually turned off from…

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