1. Install the PowerShellPack.msi file from here.
2. Open ISE and your .ps1 PowerShell file.
3. In the bottom third of the window, enter the following PowerShell command:
1. Import-Module PowerShellPack
4. You will now see an Add-ons menu in ISE; it may have already been there.
5. Highlight the PowerShell code you wish to copy and choose Add-ons, IsePack, Edit, Copy-Colored from the menu.
6. Now switch to Word and paste in your PowerShell code with full syntax highlighting.
7. You can also use Copy-ColoredAsHtml to put syntax-highlighted HTML into your clipboard.
8. Note that Ctrl-Shift-C will perform the Copy-Colored function and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C will perform the Copy-ColoredAsHtml function.

This information came from “How to Insert Formatted Windows PowerShell Code on TechNet Wiki (en-US)“.

MD5:      certutil -hashfile C:\Windows\notepad.exe MD5

SHA1:     certutil -hashfile C:\Windows\notepad.exe SHA1

SHA256: certutil -hashfile C:\Windows\notepad.exe SHA256

SHA512: certutil -hashfile C:\Windows\notepad.exe SHA512

Note that it defaults to SHA1 if you do not specify a hashing algorithm.

• I use the Bucket (fill) with a full transparent color.
• Set the foreground to white and fully transparent, i.e. RGB all = 255, Transparency – Alpha = 0
• Set the background to white and not transparent, i.e. RGB all = 255, Transparency – Alpha = 255
• You have to change the tool parameters from “Normal blend” to “Overwrite” in advance, or you won’t see any effect.
• Tool = Bucket Fill
• Flood Mode = Contiguous
• Fill = Solid Color
• Tolerance = 17%
• Antialiasing = Enabled
• Overwrite
• You can access the parameters after choosing the bucket. Press the little chemical bottle icon, in the right to the fill tolerance slider.

1. Visual Studio 2010
2. Windows SDK 7.1
3. Visual Studio 2010 SP1
4. Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1

Here is the link to the blog post about this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/03/31/10148110.aspx

To test the private static method DetermineFilename (that takes filePath as a string parameter and returns a string) in the FileManager class, do the following:

PrivateType privateFileManagerObject = new PrivateType(typeof(FileManager));
string filename = (string)privateFileManagerObject.InvokeStatic("DetermineFilename", filePath);

Thanks to Venkat for posting this solution on his web site here:
http://venkatcsharpinterview.blogspot.com/2011/07/unit-testing-private-static-method-in-c.html

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') as 'Product Version',
SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel') as 'Product Level',
SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') as 'Edition'

For me, this produced the following:

Product Version  Product Level  Edition
10.50.1600.1     RTM            Enterprise Edition (64-bit)

To disable these suggestions, do the following:

1. Go to the ReSharper menu and select Options…
2. From the resulting dialog box, select Code Inspection, Inspection Severity.
3. Select the C# tab and then Language Usage Opportunities.
4. Set both “Use ‘var’ keyword when initializer explicitly declares type” and “Use ‘var’ keyword when possible” to “Do not show”.

Rob

• %windir%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\profile.ps1

This profile applies to all users and all shells.

• %windir%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

This profile applies to all users, but only to the Microsoft.PowerShell shell.

• %UserProfile%\My Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1

This profile applies only to the current user, but affects all shells.

• %UserProfile%\My Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

This profile applies only to the current user and the Microsoft.PowerShell shell.

I found this information on the following MSDN page.  I’m still learning about what the “Microsoft.PowerShell shell” is, but that’s where Scott recommended putting it.

So, here are the lines I added to the end of Scott’s VsVars32 function:

# add a call to set-consoleicon as seen below...hm...!
. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Set-ConsoleIcon.ps1'
Set-ConsoleIcon 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\vspowershell.ico'

Also, for those of your writing PowerShell scripts, note that the ‘#’ character is used at the beginning of a line to indicate a comment.

Finally, if you modify your profile and want to reload it, you can just issue the following command from the PowerShell prompt:

. $profile

    <add name="BlogContext"
         connectionString="Server=.;Database=BlogContext.mdf;Integrated Security=SSPI;"
         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Just make sure that the name, e.g. BlogContext, matches the name of the class derived from DbContext.  Note that you will also likely need to replace the “.” in “Server=.” with whatever your server name is.  The “.” is just a reference to the SQL Server running on your local machine.

Rob

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\Instances

If you’re looking for the Visual Studio 2008 entries, they are located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\Servers

Rob