
Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder – Not programmatically drivable
“One of the terms of the license is that the compression and decompression code for Zip folders should be tied to UI actions and not Read More …
Stories, and bit rot, from the IT Support Trenches
“One of the terms of the license is that the compression and decompression code for Zip folders should be tied to UI actions and not Read More …
I wanted to grab the photos (“ContactPicture”) that people put in their Outlook Contact Details. Not sure if I grabbed this code from somewhere, or Read More …
Some time ago I was asked to write some code to detect if a user had saved a connection to an Open/Public Wifi point, and Read More …
System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1Managed..ctor() at …. When I say “learnt”, it was more Read More …
by using the CHOICE command. Which is a hack, but it works. To delay for 5 seconds: choice /T 5 /D Y An explanation follows: Read More …
Programming Sucks ”There will always be darkness I spent a few years growing up with a closet in my bedroom. The closet had an odd Read More …
So I need to get a list of print servers and printers in the domain. Using Powershell. Looking around the interwebs, I found a PowerShell Read More …
I’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro Read More …
.Net 2 is not the default framework option … No, you get .Net 4. To change it, you select Project / <your project name> Properties Read More …
Balloon Tips from the System Tray (SysTray) (note to self, must add a NotifyIcon to get this to work) NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip Method Minimizing to the SysTray Read More …