Creating Custom Powershell libraries
Powershell is a very powerful tool for automating tasks. Creating your own nuget repository that hosts powershell modules is a great way to distrubute powershell scripts, but it can be a bit fiddly to setup.
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Uninstalling Visual Studio using MS Total Uninstall
Uninstalling Visual Studio can be a real challenge, and my old PC at home is full with versions 2012/13/15. After a brief bit of googling I found a very useful tool which seemed to do the job and freed up 20gb of space on my machine.
Scripting the Installation of Powershell 4.0
I got a bit fed up with upgrading PowerShell on a number of different servers so decided to write a script to automate the task. I appreciate that it doesn’t take long to click download and install but after using chocolatey you start to realise how easy it can actually be with a little bit of effort.
Parsing Visual Studio Files with Powershell
Most companies have some pretty complicated legacy code bases with a multitude of applications and shared libraries. It can be quite difficult to see how the solutions and projects fit together. With the push towards devops and microservices it’s nice if we can carry some of the legacy applications along too. I’ve found PowerShell a useful way to try to reason about a code base...
Using Markdown in ASP.NET
Recently I was tasked with adding some CMS style functionality to a customers site. Rather than reinvent the wheel by doing my own pattern matching etc, I decided to use some markdown to do the hard work. I naively thought that it would be easier to implement because the markdown library would take care of key security concerns. Little did I realise...
Adding ASP.NET Identity 4.5 to an Existing Application
Watching videos about putting ASP.NET websites together, it always looks really nice and straight forward, it demos really well. Back at the office, faced with some real world requirements things never seem that simple. To this end I decided to try to setup the Identity framework from scratch on an existing web application.
Visual Studio 2013 WIF 3.5 STS Template
The Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 3.5 provided some Visual Studio templates to create a Secure Token Service (STS.) Unfortunately these were not available in Visual Studio 2013 and also, they actually created a Web Site rather than a Web Application.