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Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder – Not programmatically drivable

Posted onOctober 11, 2020October 12, 2020

“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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, Windows

Downloading Outlook contact photos / profile pictures

Posted onJuly 1, 2020

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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, Microsoft OfficeTagsOutlook, VBA

.Net WiFi Programming

Posted onJune 30, 2018June 17, 2018

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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, WiFi

Today I learnt about FIPS and SHA1

Posted onJanuary 27, 2017January 27, 2017

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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, WindowsTagsSHA1, Windows

How to delay in a batch file

Posted onNovember 15, 2016October 17, 2020

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 …

CategoriesCode CuttingTagsBatch, DOS

Saturday Link Roundup

Posted onOctober 24, 2015October 9, 2020

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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, Web links

Getting a list of printers published in an Active Directory domain

Posted onOctober 22, 2015October 18, 2020

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 …

CategoriesActive Directory, Code Cutting, PowerShell, Printing

Using VBScript to read though a set of registry keys

Posted onDecember 6, 2013October 18, 2020

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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, vbscript

VS2010 & .Net 2 Framework Selection

Posted onNovember 15, 2013November 12, 2013

.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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, How To

Saturday Link Roundup: Balloon Tips Edition

Posted onMay 11, 2013January 2, 2017

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 …

CategoriesCode Cutting, Web links

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