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Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:31:16 +0000

Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces. Visual Studio Codespaces allows you to do cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working. While the new services support many different programming and scripting languages, it also supports PowerShell. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you …

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The Windows 10 IoT Core web interface

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:51:26 +0000

If you have successfully installed Windows 10 IoT Core on your IoT device, for exmaple the Raspberry Pi 2, you can browse the device using a web interface to get some more information. If you don’t know the IP address or name of your device you can use the Windows 10 IoT Core Watcher to find your device …

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My Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health User Review

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:33:44 +0000

Back in November I finally got my Microsoft Band after spending a lot of time try to find one in different stores in the US. Since then I have used my Microsoft Band every day and I was waiting for the first big update and the release of the Microsoft Health Dashboard to write my …

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Microsoft WebMatrix and Microsoft WebPlatform Installer

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:30:50 +0000

For a project at KTSI we needed a platform to quick deploy PHP and MySQL applications. There are a lot of solutions out there in the web, for example XAMPP. After testing some options I had a closer look at the Microsoft WebPlatform Installer and Microsoft WebMatrix. Those two tools do exactly what I need. With the …

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Licensing Overview

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:34:05 +0000

This is a little Overview how you can license Windows Server 2008 R2 in a Hyper-V Environment. One of the biggest advantages of Hyper-V over VMware are the included Guest OS Licenses. For example if you buy a Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter license (of each CPU of your physical Server) you can deploy unlimited …

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Powershell: Send Tweet

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:26:22 +0000

For some reason your Powershell script should send a Tweet. With this function Powershell will send a message to Twitter. function Send-Tweet($Message) { #Twitter Login $Twitter_UserName = "yourname" $Twitter_Password = "yourpassword" $Twitter_URL = "https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=" $Twitter_Request = System.Net.WebRequest::Create($Twitter_URL + $Message) $Twitter_Request.credentials= New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($Twitter_UserName,$Twitter_Password) $Twitter_Request.method= "POST" $Twitter_Request.contentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" $Twitter_Request.GetResponse().statusCode # return the status code of the …

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