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Found 22 articles tagged with PowerShell
02
Sep
2019
Cloning Windows Virtual Machine in Azure without having to stop it
PowerShell21 titlesZero downtime cloning of Virtual Machine in Azure using PowerShell
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Creating a copy of an existing Virtual Machine on Azure is not really that much straight forward as you might think. The proper way as described in the documentation is to "generalize" Virtual Machine which puts it into a state where it can be used as a template for creating new Virtual Machines...read more
22
Nov
2018
Install multiple packages from Visual Studio package manager console
PowerShell21 titlesAdding multiple nuget packages to the project from package manager console
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If you are using Visual Studio 2017 as your main IDE, than you are probably familiar and used at least once NuGet package manager console. You may know or maybe not, but NuGet Package Manager relies on PowerShell script and Package Manager Console is basically hosted PowerShell command line inside Visual Studio.
This means, apart from NuGet commands, you can also execute PowerShell commands. ...read more
18
Jun
2018
Remote PowerShell Core session to a Linux host from Windows machine
PowerShell21 titlesRemote sessions using OpenSSH from Windows to Linux host
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Starting from January 2018, Microsft has made PowerShell Core 6, a cross-platform tool available not only to Windows users which was the case so far with previous versions, but to Linux and Mac users as well.
Since it was tool for Windows only, it had it's own ways for remoting using WinRM unlike Linux operating systems which primarily rely on SSH. Windows is great for editing and development, I find it really comfortable to work on with so many tools and platform available...read more
13
Jun
2018
Use different configuration based on environment value in ASP.NET Core
.NET217 titlesDifferent configuration per environment in ASP.NET Core
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In .NET framework, having separate configuration is possible by having different web.config or app.config file transformations since in .NET framework configuration is stored in XML format. You can check more on this in article Separate configuration files per build config in Visual Studio IDE...read more
18
May
2018
Seeding data in Entity Framework Core from Visual Studio
.NET217 titlesInsert sample data from Visual Studio IDE with EF core
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Unlike Entity Framework 6, EF Core and whole .NET Core relies on dependency injection. For example, configuration is expected to be injected from the calling assembly instead of being available at any time...read more
17
Mar
2018
Setting IP address and domain filtering in IIS using PowerShell script
PowerShell21 titlesRestricting and allowing traffic to web application through IIS using PowerShell
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Starting from IIS 7.0 Microsoft introduced IP and Domain restrictions feature as a part of IIS setup. However, if you do not have this feature installed on your IIS you can easily install it through windows features adding steps which are pretty much same for each Windows version (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webserver/security/ipsecurity/add) or simply by using WebPlatform Installer.
Just run WebPlatform Installer and search for IP and Domain restrictions in search box...read more
06
Mar
2018
Converting existing website images to Google WebP using PowerShell
PowerShell21 titlesEncoding existing image files to Google WebP format
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WebP is an image format introduced by Google in 2010. It uses specific technique to compress image and reduce size significantly while not changing the image quality on the larger scale...read more
06
Mar
2018
Optimize JPG images for internet using jpegtran and PowerShell
PowerShell21 titlesReduce size of existing JPG images without loosing quality with jpegtran
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Recently I wrote an article about optimizing PNG images for intenrent using pngcrush and PowerShell. I actually used this method to optimize all PNG images on my website...read more
05
Mar
2018
Optimize PNG images for internet using pngcrush and PowerShell
PowerShell21 titlesReduce size of existing PNG images without loosing quality with pngcrush
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Imagine a case where you have an existing website which is running for the past few years. You decided to run a Google PageSpeed insights on couple of pages and you realized that your PNG images on the pages are not optimized for Internet...read more
04
Mar
2018
Minify CSS and JavaScript files with PowerShell script
PowerShell21 titlesJavaScript and CSS file optimization with PowerShell script
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Minification of Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) and Java Script (JS) should be on a TODO list for every web application. The minification of CSS and JS can be easily one on the runtime with ASP.NET bundling which is build in in ASP.NET framework, but in case of distributing your resource files over CDN you cannot use the runtime minification. You physical files need to be minified...read more
22
Feb
2018
Merge folders with Windows PowerShell script
PowerShell21 titlesDetect changes and merge folders and files with PowerShell script
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When deploying application to specific location it is often required to deploy only few files and not the whole deployment package. For example, if you changed only single static image file in your ASP.NET WebApplication, there is no reason to overwrite bin folder content and cause WebApplication on IIS to restart...read more
18
Feb
2018
Sending email with Gmail account using PowerShell script
PowerShell21 titlesSend email with your Gmail account login with PowerShell script
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Sending email after and even before a long running PowerShell script is a logical thing to do to notify users which are responsible for taking actions for the specific operation. PowerShell starting from version 3.0 has build in cmdlet Send-MailMessage for sending emails.
...read more
15
Feb
2018
Use PowerShell to install SSL certificate on IIS
PowerShell21 titlesImporting PFX SSL certificate to IIS with PowerShell script
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Since Google announced HTTPS as ranking signal most of the websites now days are switching to secured communication via SSL certificates. Even I switched my website to HTTPS secured connection to follow up with this new trend.
Using certificate on the website is related to domain binding, but even before we setup the domain binding for the website, we need to import the certificate to IIS...read more
08
Feb
2018
Get .NET Framework version installed on Windows using PowerShell
PowerShell21 titlesHow to find out installed version of .NET Framework with PowerShell
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Finding out installed .NET Framework version on the host Windows OS is not an everyday job, but when it comes to deployments of the .NET application it is needed to check if the host supports targeting .NET Framework version.
Starting from .NET Framework 4.5, Microsoft is storing .NET Framework version as a key in registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full\Release
...read more
02
Feb
2018
Managing Windows Scheduled Tasks with Windows PowerShell
PowerShell21 titlesList, create and update Windows Scheduled Tasks with PowerShell
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Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler component is a standard part of Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows98. It allows schedulex execution of programs or scripts at specific pre-defined time or recurrent time interval.
Repetitive creating and updating Windows Scheduled Tasks manually using Windows built in manager can be annoying...read more
.NET
19
Dec
2020
Setting up SQL Server IDistributedCache with migration in ASP.NET Core
Embedding SQL Server caching in a project with EFCore migration
11
Dec
2020
Representing available string values for parameters as list in Swagger ASP.NET Core
Valid values as list in Swagger UI in ASP.NET Core
24
Nov
2020
Running multiple queries at the same time in EF Core
Overcoming the limitation of EF Core query execution
17
Nov
2020
Accessing multiple databases from the same DbContext in EF Core
Multiple database access from the same DbContext in Entity Framework Core 5
11
Sep
2020
Building and using advanced .NET Core CLI global tools
Handling commands, arguments and options in .NET CLI global tool application
6
Sep
2020
Seeding data in EF Core using SQL scripts
Another way of seeding data in EF Core
JavaScript
28
Oct
2018
HTML5 localStorage with expiry with vanilla JavaScript
Using HTML5 localStorage with expiry
8
May
2018
Monitoring DOM changes with JavaScript
Handling DOM changes with plain JavaScript
9
May
2017
Non blocking CSS load on the page
Load external CSS files in an async manner
16
Mar
2017
Serialize html form to JSON without using JQuery
Transform user input from HTML form fields to JSON
17
Jan
2016
Copy text value to clipboard using jQuery
Simple sample of using jQuery to copy value to clipboard
11
Jan
2016
Resize image on the client side with JQuery
Reducing the upload sie by resizing image on the client side
SQL/T-SQL
23
May
2020
Identifying opened connections for the specific application in SQL Server
Connection listing queries in SQL Server
3
May
2018
Reading JSON data in T-SQL on SQL Server
Extracting values from JSON string on SQL Server using T-SQL
28
Apr
2016
Create XML/HTML with T-SQL
Generating XML/HTML output in SQL Server
24
Nov
2015
IP address to octets split in TSQL
Split IP addresse into octets in SQL Server
20
Jul
2015
Getting first and last second of the current year, month and day
Using minimum and maximum date time in SQL query
13
Apr
2015
Dealing with duplicate rows in SQL Server
Finding and cleaning up duplicate rows in SQL Server tables
Umbraco CMS
2
Mar
2018
Minify HTML output of your pages
Minification of HTML output using ASP.NET IHttpModule
18
Apr
2015
Generate sitemap.xml on the fly in Umbraco CMS
Simple sitemap.xml Umbraco handler
2
Mar
2015
Accessing UmbracoHelper in HttpHandler request
Working with UmbracoHelper and IPublishedContent in HttpHandler
14
Sep
2014
Same page language switching in Umbraco
Land on the same page in different language in Umbraco using Relations
4
Sep
2014
Getting cropped image the smart way
The way to get cropped image URL with option to load original image too
27
Aug
2014
Fastest way to return JSON result from a controller
Resturn JSON in MVC controller action