Aaron's Code Notes

This class will parse, organize and collect command line options. I couldn't find anything like it, so I wrote one. This works all the way down to .NET 1.1 if you are lucky enough to still be using that. Save this as ArgDictionary.cs, change the namespace as needed, and feel free to use it in your projects. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace Utilities { /// /// Implements a Dictionary object for handling command line options. /// Supports options with prefixes -, --, or /. /// Supports Boolean, String, or Int32 option values. /// String options are in the following format: /// /stringOption value /// Int32 options are in the following format: /// /intOption 200 /// Boolean options are in the following format: /// /boolOption /// NOTE: if the Boolean option is present in the command line, it is true. /// /// Supports both a long and short version for each option (e.g. /a and /Account /// can be mapped to the same value). /// NOTE: When ...

If you are making an HTTP request to a RESTful web service, you can use the PowerShell  Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet. This provides a very simple HTTP REST interface, and will also format the result into a PowerShell object. If you would like to use your own functions, you can follow the instructions below. This is a helper function to format (indent) an XML response from a web service. function Format-XML { Param ([string]$xml) $out = New-Object System.IO.StringWriter $Doc=New-Object system.xml.xmlDataDocument $doc.LoadXml($xml) $writer=New-Object system.xml.xmltextwriter($out) $writer.Formatting = [System.xml.formatting]::Indented $doc.WriteContentTo($writer) $writer.Flush() $out.flush() Write-Output $out.ToString() } Here is the function to make the http call. It dumps the response data on the terminal and also returns it as a string to the caller. If there is an error it will dump the HTTP status code and comment on the terminal and return the re...

using System.Diagnostics; namespace MyStuff { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { TextWriterTraceListener tr1 = new TextWriterTraceListener(System.Console.Out); Trace.Listeners.Add(tr1); Trace.WriteLine("Trace Message"); } } }

To change the Console Color, use: Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red; To change it back to what it was before: Console.ResetColor(); To make some default values:  static ConsoleColor ErrorColor = ConsoleColor.Red; static ConsoleColor WarningColor = ConsoleColor.Yellow;