Yesterday I had an interesting task. I needed to parse a collection of XML files in C# and wondered if there's an easy way to just access the data without all the XPath/XML fuzz. After some research I found a couple of approaches and I mixed and matched them to a pretty simple one using … Continue reading Quickly parsing XML in C#
Author: Stefan Koell
PowerShell Interop
My blog here at code4ward isn't quite active lately. My local community engagements at expertslive.at are consuming most of my time. But I had the opportunity to speak at the Experts Live EU event in Berlin and thought, this would be a good opportunity to share my slides and code from my talk on my code4ward … Continue reading PowerShell Interop
DevOps Patterns and Anti-Patterns
Here are the slides of my DevOps Patterns and Anti-Patterns talk at Experts Live 2017. Experts Live Europe - DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns
Visual Studio WinForms Designer on HighDPI
Visual Studio (2015 and upcoming 2017) is a "DPI aware" application. Even our own WinForms based product Royal TS is a "DPI aware" application. But if you are a WinForms developer and use Visual Studio on a high DPI system, you will be surprised how Visual Studio messes up all your WinForms in the designer. … Continue reading Visual Studio WinForms Designer on HighDPI
System Center and PowerShell Breakfast
Summer is over. SCU conference is over. Ignite conference is over. And now, our first User Group Breakfast is also over and it was great! This was the first time we organized our user group meeting on Friday morning as a half-day event. We had almost 20 attendees and 4 presenters (me included). At 8:00 … Continue reading System Center and PowerShell Breakfast