Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

24 Jan 2011

Get current file in PowerShell

A while ago i wrote a small script to take care of deployment. Configuring the source folders went as following: param( ...
24 Jan 2011

Polling the existence of a file with PowerShell

Sometimes you run into a situations where a given task spawns a separate thread and completes it’s work on that se...
06 Jan 2011

Get entire message body from an Intent

I recently started programming the Android and noticed that most examples for processing an incoming SMS are not entirel...
11 Dec 2010

Techniques learned in SQLtopia: Look Ma, no loops!

I have been programming in c-based languages for more than 10 years now. Lately i have spent quite a bit of time in SQLt...
10 Dec 2010

Exploring window functions

Here is a sample query that allows you to explore the behavior of various aggregate window functions: WITH [Nums1] AS ( ...
20 Nov 2010

Convert AAC/M4A files to MP3 with VLC and PowerShell

Here is a way to convert your AAC/M4A files to MP3 using VLC media player: vlc.exe -I dummy old.m4a :sout=#transcode{aco...
17 Nov 2010

Configure Visual Studio 2010 environment in PowerShell

Instead of using the “Visual Studo Command Prompt (2010)” i wanted to use PowerShell instead. I found this p...
17 Nov 2010

Load all script files at PowerShell startup

These days i have quite some scripts files that i want to be loaded each time i launch PowerShell. Windows PowerShell Pr...
11 Nov 2010

Get variable value from variable with PowerShell

Sometimes you only know at runtime in which variable a certain value is stored. Let me clarify with an example: $tim = 3...
11 Nov 2010

Update ConfigurationStrings in SSIS package with PowerShell

Here are some functions that allow you to update ConfigurationStrings in a SSIS package (dtsx) using PowerShell: functio...