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Powershell , Windows

How to make your Powershell scripts more annoying

by Ian Blair January 27, 2021 No Comments

Have you ever wished when you are running a long complicated powershell script that you could make it more annoying. Well you can. There is a part of .NET that I have rarely ever had reason to use, as if you are creating an interface and need it to be disability friendly then Windows does […]

Windows

What motherboard is in my PC

by Ian Blair January 27, 2021 No Comments

My development workstation is getting a little old, it still has a 3.6Ghz i7 and 32Gb of RAM along with a fancy graphics card that drives 3 monitors but occasionally it feels like its being asked to do too much. Comparing things like the boot speed or heaven forbid the Windows upgrade speed to my […]

C# , Dynamics365 , Thoughts

A Dynamics365 plugin thought experiment

by Ian Blair May 31, 2020 No Comments

Its funny how having extra time during a pandemic lets your mind wander. Recently I wrote a parser to allow script functionality in a personal non CRM related project of mine in a language I am calling ianScript (its my language I can call it what I like and scripts are usually faster to work […]

C# , Dynamics365

Registering a Dynamics365 plugin and I get an error

by Ian Blair May 30, 2020 No Comments

You know you are having one of those days when even doing something simple like registering a plugin in Dynamics365 doesn’t work.  Its something I have done literally thousands of times before and everything seemed to look ok until I pressed the Register Selected Plugins button in the registration tool. I had written the plugin […]

Dynamics365

Going back in time with Dynamics365

by S0ftStuffB055 May 30, 2020 No Comments

Any new instances of Dynamics365 will default to the Unified Interface, and while its true that most users should be using it now there are occasionally a few holdouts especially amongst users who have been with the product since 2013 or 2015. Even if a legacy app is available by default in a new instance […]

Thoughts , Windows

Make using Windows for people with eyesight issues easier

by Ian Blair May 19, 2020 No Comments

A lot more people suffer from a form of colour blindness than you would think, here in the United Kingdom almost 4.5% of the population suffer with some form of colour impairment. The causes can be varied as can how the actual sight impairment manifests itself. Although there does seem to be a marked difference […]

Thoughts , VBScript , Visual Studio , Windows

Lets not forget VB script

by Ian Blair May 6, 2020 No Comments

I fondly remember Visual Basic, not the new shiny .NET version, but the old VB6 that was an excellent way to build applications, but was always a bit of a pain to install them afterwards as sometimes I would find myself disappearing down the ActiveX regsvr32 version rabbit hole. But fortunately VB6 sort of lives […]

Bootstrap , C# , Dot Net Core , JavaScript , Visual Studio

Bootstrap dialogs and AJAX calls to delete records in Dot Net Core.

by Ian Blair May 5, 2020 No Comments

When you are writing a .NET Core application then Visual Studio allows you to add the controller scaffolding once you have defined the data items in your model. As part of the controller it also can also define some .cshtml pages to handle the CRUD operations (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete). If you are simply […]

Windows

Need a more up to date Windows logo in a document?

by Ian Blair March 10, 2020 No Comments

When writing documentation, or manuals or even training material sometimes you need a Windows logo. In the old days there used to be one in the WingDings font at character code 0xFF. The only problem now is that logo is a little out of date being more Windows 3.1 than Windows 10. Fortunately deployed with […]

Dynamics365 , JavaScript

Call a Dynamics365 workflow from JavaScript

by Ian Blair March 6, 2020 2 Comments

Usually if I am creating a web resource and I need to run some internal Dynamics365 process my preferred method would be to write an action and then call that. Sometimes though this isn’t always possible and the workflow already exists and rather than duplicate its existing functionality it becomes easier to use the existing […]

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