In the last post I showed you how VisioBot3000 makes drawing simple Visio diagrams simpler by wrapping the Visio COM API and providing more straight-forward cmdlets do refer to stencils and masters, and to draw shapes, containers, and connectors on the page. To be honest, that’s where I was expecting to end up when I started …
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For a while now, I’ve been demonstrating Visio automation in PowerShell. For the most part, the posts have included a bunch of short code snippets designed to illustrate simple concepts. Unfortunately, the code has been filled with “magic” constants, and lots of method calls on the various Visio COM objects. Both of those make code …
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Ok…I think this is the last of the “how to perform primitive operations in Visio” articles that I’m going to do. Hope you’ve been enjoying them. If you haven’t been keeping up, you can find them all here. In this installment, I’m going to show you how to create a container in Visio. Containers are really …
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Last night Rob Campbell (@mjolinor) and I were talking after his presentation on performance when using Get-Content with -ReadCount and different string matching techniques and I realized it’s time to verbalize my thoughts on performance in PowerShell. Part 1 – It doesn’t matter When people ask me if PowerShell is fast, my first response is …
Had a blast at the MidMo PowerShell user group meeting last night in Columbia,MO. It was just the second meeting for this group and there were over a dozen people present. I started with a presentation on using PowerShell and Visio together (some of which you’ve seen here) and Rob Campbell (@Mjolinor) finished the meeting …
I love local user groups. I’ve been an off-and-on attender of the SQL Server user group and the .NET user group in my area. Neither of these really are about what I do, but it’s been fun to connect with local people about technology. I did speak about PowerShell (embedding in C# apps) once, too. …
I get asked to look at other people’s PowerShell code a lot at work, and I really enjoy it. I also find myself looking at my “old” code from several years ago (back to 2007!) and think…there’s a lot of work to be done. To that end, I’ve compiled a list of “PowerShell code review …
It’s been a while since the last post. I decided that if I had to chose between writing PowerShell and writing about PowerShell, I should favor the former. In this episode, I’ll talk about how to create connections between objects in a Visio diagram. Turns out it’s not really that hard (just like most things …
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