Wednesday, June 7, 2023

PowerShell: Installing the latest version of Pester

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Before installing the latest version of Pester, uninstall the legacy version of Pester (Pester 3.x) which is installed with most modern vers...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

PowerShell: Uninstalling Pester 3.0

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Microsoft by default installs an obsolete version of Pester on Windows (Pester 3.x). For example on one of my machines (Windows 11) the vers...
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Monday, June 5, 2023

PowerShell: Requiring a Script to Run as Administrator

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Placing the following at the top of a PowerShell script requires that said script to run as administrator: #Requires -RunAsAdministrator For...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

PowerShell: StringBuild AppendLine lessons from C

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Two years ago I wrote a post,  PowerShell: Inadvertently Returning Multiple Values from a Function  and low and behold I found a found a com...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Visual Studio Code: Disable Format on Save per-File (including wildcards)

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In this post, we'll explore how to disable the formatOnSave option for specific files, multiple files, using wild cards, and files with ...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Visual Studio Code: Disable Format on Save (settings.json: formatOnSave=true) per-File-Extension

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I worked with two good engineers who loved auto format code (PowerShell) using Visual Studio Code's settings.json attribute. So I asked ...

ChatGPT (writing PowerShell example) Will Replace Most of My Searches Targeting StackOverflow.com and Microsoft.com

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The Old Way of Technical Search The modus operandi I use for most of my software-development-related research is to: Search using Google (ye...