Bite my bytes

Updating TortoiseSVN with PowerShell

David Vidmar — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:55:44 GMT

I believe in two kinds of PC software: portable - so I just drop .exe in my tools folder and use it and software that automatically updates – Google Chrome is champion here.

Unfortunately TortoiseSVN is neither. It will tell me that is out of date, but then I have to jump through several loops (going to browser, searching for download site, downloading file,…) before it’s up to date.

Using a new cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest of PowerShell 3.0 that downloads and parses a HTML writing a script that downloads latest TortoiseSVN .msi is a breeze…

First, let’s get the page (I use VisualSVN not SourceForge, since it’s easier to parse).

$html = Invoke-WebRequest http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/download/tortoisesvn/

Let’s find the link that points to 64-bit TortoiseSVN MSI, shall we? Easy in PS3! (mind .Links, where and select!)

$downloadUrl = $html.Links | where href -like "*tortoisesvn*-x64-*.msi" | select href

Now just download file to current folder and we are done.

Here is complete script:

function DownloadFile($downloadUrl)
{
    $filename = $downloadUrl.Substring($downloadUrl.LastIndexOf('/') + 1)
    $localFilename = (Resolve-Path ".").Path + '\' + $filename
    $webResponse = Invoke-WebRequest $downloadUrl
    [System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($localFilename, $webResponse.Content)
}

$html = Invoke-WebRequest "http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/download/tortoisesvn/"
$downloadUrl = $html.Links | where href -like "*tortoisesvn*-x64-*.msi" | select href

$downloadUrl = 'http://www.visualsvn.com' + $downloadUrl.href

"Downloading $downloadUrl ..."

DownloadFile($downloadUrl)

Links of the week #163

David Vidmar — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:20:03 GMT

Links are finally back! The reason for absence is not my new job, but rather unfortunate changes in two APIs I use for creating this posts.

I used “shared” items in Google Reader for software updates and Google just turned those off in favor of Google+. So for now, the software updates section is gone. I tried couple of things but nothing works as fast as my previous solution. Sorry for that, blame big G.

For links I use great service Delicious, which is also going through some changes and its API is broken. A URL that should return just posts from specified date onward started returning all posts overnight. I had to do some change in the code of my Windows Live Writer plugin in order to get right stuff into posts. Luckily I’m using Linq to XML for parsing and one line was all I needed.

Software Development

Interactive Vim tutorial

Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development

ModelText HTML Edit Control for .NET - Managed HTML edit control for Windows Forms.

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager

Tools For FIM - FIMalyzer and RCDC Editor

How to: Create a Custom Logging Activity and Deploy it to the FIM Portal

Microsoft Biztalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Server seen by the programmer - What is BizTalk? Great article.

BizTalk 360 - Monitoring tool for BizTalk.

Cutting Cost with BizTalk Server - Check page 5 for BizTalk adoption data. Fascinating.

Summary of 64-bit support, operating systems and SQL Server versions supported by BizTalk Server

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

CRM 2011 Client Diagnostics Tool for On Premise Â« MSCRM Bing'd

CRM 2011 Visual Ribbon Editor - Tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 that lets you edit CRM ribbons.

Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM Online Solutions from Development through Test and Production Environments - This white paper explores deploying real-world Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions across test and production environments in reliable and repeatable ways by using automation, together with some automation examples.

Free Utilities - Mitch Milam's free CRM tools and other bits

Solution Import for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - New tool from Tanguy!

Windows Phone 7

Screen Capturer v3 - Use Camera key to get screenshot.

What's new in Windows Phone 7.5

Books

goodreads - Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia

Kids

Ian Knot = Ian's Fast Shoelace Knot - If you teach your kid to tie a lace, teach him this. I will.

Slovenia

Balirka - Easy invocing for Slovenian companies. Great!

Software

MarkdownPad - The Markdown editor for Windows

I work for Microsoft now

David Vidmar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:27 GMT

It’s been quiet around here and for a good reason. As I hinted before there has been many changes in my life recently. In same week I became father for second time (father of three boys now, twins and a new baby!), finally finished my engineer’s degree and finally, I joined the ranks of best company in the world to work for – Microsoft.

I’ll be working as I consultant for Biztalk Server and Forefront Identity Manager and from time to time a Dynamics CRM consultant.

So, what can you expect? Occasional dry stints, lots of BTS and FIM links, Windows Phone 7, Azure and Windows 8 and other cool Microsoft stuff.

If you are fellow Microsoftie, please look me up and drop me a note – let’s connect!

Links of the week #162

David Vidmar — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:20:08 GMT

Development

AutoMapper - The object-object mapper - New homepage.

Biztalk Server

Software Updates

Links of the week #161

David Vidmar — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:56:30 GMT

Development

A Lap Around the New Amazon Web Services Toolkit for Visual Studio
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio - The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio that makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications using Amazon Web Services.
Windows Phone 7 Quick Start Developer Guide

Microsoft BizTalk Server

Cumulative update package 2 for BizTalk Server 2010 Released!

Software

Input Director - Software KVM to Control Multiple Computers
Microsoft download from The Garage: Mouse without Borders - Next at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs - MS version of Synergy.

Sounds

RainyMood.com: Rain makes everything better.

Web

Compilr - Online C#, C++, Java, PHP, ... compiler. Wicked.

Software Updates

Links of the week #160

David Vidmar — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:55:47 GMT

Development

Ookii.Dialogs - Class library for .Net applications providing several common dialogs. Included are classes for task dialogs, credential dialogs, progress dialogs, input dialogs, and common file dialogs.

Microsoft Biztalk Server

Fun

Learn to code | Codecademy - Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

Tools

PdfMasher - Tool to convert PDF articles (newspaper, academic) to MOBI or EPUB documents.

Software Updates

Links of the week #159

David Vidmar — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:43:23 GMT

Development

Muse.VSExtensions

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Software Updates

Links of the week #158

David Vidmar — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:40:01 GMT

Development

Using SQLite embedded database with entity framework and Linq-to-SQL

Design

NounProject

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Software Updates

What this blog is all about...

David Vidmar — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:22:38 GMT

… lately and so far, anyway. But things are about to change a bit in a few weeks.

(via: wordle.net)

Links of the week #157

David Vidmar — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:23:11 GMT

Development

Aloha (Green text) - My new Visual Studio style.
Favorite Documents - The free Favorite Documents extension lets you create links to frequently used code files and then quickly open them as a group or individually from the Favorites menu in Visual Studio 2010.
NLog - Advanced .NET Logging - NLog 2.0 has been released!

Biztalk Server

Dynamics CRM

Creating Complex Records in Dynamics CRM 2011 from BizTalk Server 2010
CRM 2011 Style Templates
Filtering generated entities with CrmSvcUtil - Also, hot to create enums for option sets.
First-Come First-Served Lead Assignment Workflow Using CRM Queues
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK - Just updated to 5.0.5
Recursive Workflows in Dynamics CRM
Update Rollup 18 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is available
Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available

SQL Server

Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization

Photography

Microsoft Camera Codec Pack - RAW codec for 64 and 32 Windows. Plain and simple.

Software Updates

Links of the week #156

David Vidmar — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:30:03 GMT

Development

Baby

Baby Infant Growth Chart Calculator

Windows Home Server

Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector Add-in

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Software Updates

Dynamics CRM 4.0 build number tables updated with RU 17 & 18 [CRM]

David Vidmar — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:53:53 GMT

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM is asleep when it comes to Dynamics CRM 4.0. While the majority of work is being done on 2011 version rollup updates 17 & 18 have been released. Thumbs up!

I have updated the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 build numbers table accordingly.

Links of the week #155

David Vidmar — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:46:32 GMT

Development

Creating Wildcard Certificates with makecert.exegs

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

CRM 2011 Metadata Browser - Great metadata browser for Dynamics CRM 2011 implemented in Silverlight.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - Filtered Lookups - Nice tutorial for filtered lookups.
SiteMap Editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - Another great tool from Tanguy!

Security

hpHosts Online - hosts based ad blocking.

Tools

CodeTwo Outlook Attachment Reminder - A nice little free add-in for Outlook that will remind to attach a file.

Software Updates

Better demo data for Dynamics CRM 2011 [CRM]

David Vidmar — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:02:18 GMT

Few days ago Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Management team released a set of demo data for Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.

This it contains more sample data than default on-premise data so I wondered if it can be imported to on-premise version. the answer - with just a bit of tweaking it can!

Here are the steps:

Download sample data and demo scripts
Unzip Admin-1.zip and open Users.xml in Excel
Create all users from Users.xml in your domain
Change the domain in “User Name” column in Users.xml file to match your domain name
Create new organization
Create USD currency if this isn’t your default currency
Import Admin-1.zip and ignore error about Users.xml
Import fixed Users.xml file
Follow instructions on blog post for the rest of the files…

Don’t forget to go through the demo scripts and explore the data.

Links of the week #154

David Vidmar — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:51:29 GMT

Development

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

CRM 2011 Workflow Utilities - Home - Includes custom workflow activities for CRM 2011 which provide additional workflow steps for actions such as "delete", "share" and "create hyperlink to CRM record"Â within the CRM Process designer.
JavaScript Web Resource Manager for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Demonstration Kit - Included in this Kit is more comprehensive data, Dashboards, Workflows and Dialogs illustrating core CRM capabilities in expanded scenarios.Â Read on below to find detailed instructions on how to download and setup these assets.

Software

Office 2010 Screensaver - Get useful tips about Office when you are NOT near your computer. ;)