Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:49 AM bart

TechEd 2006 IT Forum - Day Three

Allrighty, kind of recoverd again; seems the BeFraLux country party last night had a healing effect. To be honest, I didn't know much of the people over there - I'm a developer after all - but lots of faces were familiar from MSDN/TechNet events in Belgium. So, we had some nice conversations about where all things come together: Windows PowerShell. Yeah baby, it's all over the place!

So right now I'm on the Windows PowerShell ATE booth (desk 28) with lots of great questions and feedback. Seems people start to love it and it's amazing to see people getting overwhelmed by all the power that gets unlocked by using the .NET Framework BCL underneath. Some of our great examples are:

PS C:\Users\Bart>([string](ipconfig | select-string IPv4)).substring(39)
172.22.28.85

PS C:\Users\Bart> [int](get-wmiobject Win32_OperatingSystem).Version.Split(".")[2]
5600

PS C:\Users\Bart> $a = [UriBuilder]"ftp://bar:foo@test.com/dir"
PS C:\Users\Bart> $a


Fragment :
Host     : test.com
Password : foo
Path     : /dir
Port     : 21
Query    :
Scheme   : ftp
Uri      : ftp://bar:foo@test.com/dir
UserName : bar
Isn't this cool? Don't try to do the URL parsing yourself, just rely on the specalized classes in the .NET Framework. Still one hour to go over here on ATE before I'll attend some sessions. Tonight another party is on, from the Visual Studio team, which I'll visit together with the few U2U people who're still in Barcelona. Yeah, devs rule IT Forum :-) Should be fun.Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

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