Mats codemix

Doing (temporary) development in VB6 i found these tips on string handling in VB6
http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/stringopt.html
Find additional tips on http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/

August 23rd, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

If i want to search this site with google.

Code

<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
<fieldset>
<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="mats.gardstad.se/matscodemix/" />
<input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />
</fieldset>
</form>

March 2nd, 2009 | Tags: googlesearch | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I wanted to change the colours for powersshell error messages. Easily done by using this code

# Set Error and warning colours
$hostprivate = (Get-Host).PrivateData
$hostprivate.ErrorBackgroundColor = "red"

First i put the code in Profile.ps1 in C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Mina dokument\WindowsPowerShell.
This caused the powerhell scripting environment (ISE) to spit out some errors while starting:
Property ‘ErrorBackgroundColor’ cannot be [...]

January 27th, 2009 | Tags: power | Category: Powershell, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I had the need to find files “not containing” a certain text.
I scanned the web and found all and nothing. A few dedicated search tools and editors (some payware and some free).
Since i use powershell a lot in my work i wanted to use that environment. Finding a file based on a certain text [...]

December 17th, 2008 | Tags: filesearch, Powershell | Category: .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Note to self, Powershell, Programming, Rants, SQL, SqlServer, Uncategorized, c#, utilities | Comments (3)