Powershell has quickly grown into one of my favorate scripting languages because of its flexibility and near seamless integration with the .NET framework. I use it often to do simple tasks to which parsing simple text files is one. Have you ever needed to look a few lines ahead in... »

Sometimes PowerShell scripts need to send email messages to other users, and it is pretty annoying to hard code SMTP servers if you’ve got a ton of scripts lying around across several different servers. Wouldn’t it be nice if the script could find a valid Exchange server from AD? Well,... »

We’ve been working on network upgrades to our aging branch networking equipment and ran into some roadblocks when dealing with UCS-E series servers and EtherSwitch modules in a Cisco 3945E router. UCS-E is a fantastic piece of technology whereby an Intel-based x86 server can be slotted into a Cisco router,... »

I recently encountered a need to paginate a list of files and directories as some folders may contain hundreds of items and it isn’t very nice to dump hundreds of filenames into a table and call it good. Building a Model The FilesystemExplorer is the Model we will be handing... »

With the release of .NET 4.5 came a built-in WPF ribbon control to be used by developers everywhere. I couldn’t manage to find any solid articles on how to allow plugin authors to dynamically add items to the ribbon, so I thought I’d chime in with my solution. In this... »