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Adding -WhatIf and -Confirm support to your cmdlet

function Invoke-MyCmdlet { [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess = $true)] param() # ... }

PowerShell • Using ShouldProcess

Methods and properties

class Person { [string] $FirstName [string] $LastName [string] Greeting() { return "Greetings, {0} {1}!" -f $this.FirstName, $this.LastName } } $x = [Person]::new() $x.FirstName = "Jane" $x.LastName = "Doe" $greeting = $x.Greeting() #...

PowerShell • PowerShell Classes

Installation or Setup

MSBuild 2015 On Windows there are three choices to get MSBuild: Install Visual Studio 2015 Download Microsoft Build Tools which includes VB and C# compilers. Build from Source On Linux Build from Source using this guide

msbuild • Getting started with msbuild

Installation or Setup using Python

1) scikit learn scikit-learn is a Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy and distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license. It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms including support vector machines, random forests, gradient boosting, k-means and DBSCA...

machine-learning • Getting started with machine-learning

Why are there two build.gradle files in an Android Studio project?

<PROJECT_ROOT>\app\build.gradle is specific for app module. <PROJECT_ROOT>\build.gradle is a "Top-level build file" where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules. If you use another module in your project, as a local library you would have another...

Android • Gradle for Android

Creating a new program using .NET Core

First install the .NET Core SDK by going through the installation instructions for the platform of your choice: Windows OSX Linux Docker After the installation has completed, open a command prompt, or terminal window. Create a new directory with mkdir hello_world and change into the ne...

C# Language • Getting started with C# Language

Getting the string representation of a Guid

A string representation of a Guid can be obtained by using the built in ToString method string myGuidString = myGuid.ToString(); Depending on your needs you can also format the Guid, by adding a format type argument to the ToString call. var guid = new Guid("7febf16f-651b-43b0-a5e3-0da8da4...

C# Language • Guid

clone() method

The clone() method is used to create and return a copy of an object. This method arguable should be avoided as it is problematic and a copy constructor or some other approach for copying should be used in favour of clone(). For the method to be used all classes calling the method must implement the...

Java Language • Object Class Methods and Constructor

Installation or Setup

Google Apps Script does not require setup or installation. The only requirement is a Google Account. A Gmail account works as well as a Google Apps for Work/Education/Government account. You can create a new Google account by going to accounts.google.com Start your first script by going to script.g...

google-apps-script • Getting started with google-apps-script

Getting Started: Hello world!

Creating an HTML document and enabling knockout.js Create an HTML file and include knockout.js via a <script> tag. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Hello world! (knockout.js)</title> </head> <body> <script src="https://cdnjs...

knockout.js • Getting started with knockout.js

Copying contents from one slice to another slice

If you wish to copy the contents of a slice into an initially empty slice, following steps can be taken to accomplish it- Create the source slice: var sourceSlice []interface{} = []interface{}{"Hello",5.10,"World",true} Create the destination slice, with: Length =...

Go • Slices

Installation or Setup

See Boost Getting Started. Most of the Boost libraries are header-only, meaning that there's nothing you have to compile or link to. Make sure you are getting the most recent version of Boost: Visit www.boost.org Look for the Current Release download. Currently, this links here. Select the ...

boost • Getting started with boost

Dictionary method changes

In Python 3, many of the dictionary methods are quite different in behaviour from Python 2, and many were removed as well: has_key, iter* and view* are gone. Instead of d.has_key(key), which had been long deprecated, one must now use key in d. In Python 2, dictionary methods keys, values and items ...

Python Language • Incompatibilities moving from Python 2 to Python 3

Extension methods aren't supported by dynamic code.

static class Program { static void Main() { dynamic dynamicObject = new ExpandoObject(); string awesomeString = "Awesome"; // Prints True Console.WriteLine(awesomeString.IsThisAwesome()); dynamicObject.StringValue = awesomeStrin...

C# Language • Extension Methods

Switch Statement with Regex Parameter

The -Regex parameter allows switch statements to perform regular expression matching against conditions. Example: switch -Regex ('Condition') { 'Con\D+ion' {'One or more non-digits'} 'Conditio*$' {'Zero or more "o"'} 'C.ndition' {'Any single char.'} '^C\w+ition$'...

PowerShell • Switch statement

Switch Statement with Wildcard Parameter

The -Wildcard parameter allows switch statements to perform wildcard matching against conditions. Example: switch -Wildcard ('Condition') { 'Condition' {'Normal match'} 'Condit*' {'Zero or more wildcard chars.'} 'C[aoc]ndit[f-l]on' {'Range and set of chars...

PowerShell • Switch statement

Switch Statement with Exact Parameter

The -Exact parameter enforces switch statements to perform exact, case-insensitive matching against string-conditions. Example: switch -Exact ('Condition') { 'condition' {'First Action'} 'Condition' {'Second Action'} 'conditioN' {'Third Action'} '^*ondition$' {'Fourth Action...

PowerShell • Switch statement

Switch Statement with CaseSensitive Parameter

The -CaseSensitive parameter enforces switch statements to perform exact, case-sensitive matching against conditions. Example: switch -CaseSensitive ('Condition') { 'condition' {'First Action'} 'Condition' {'Second Action'} 'conditioN' {'Third Action'} } Output: Second Act...

PowerShell • Switch statement

Switch Statement with File Parameter

The -file parameter allows the switch statement to receive input from a file. Each line of the file is evaluated by the switch statement. Example file input.txt: condition test Example switch statement: switch -file input.txt { 'condition' {'First Action'} 'test' {'Second Action...

PowerShell • Switch statement

Closing a serial port even if lost, deleted or overwritten

Assuming you created the serial port object s as in this example, then to close it fclose(s) However, sometimes you can accidentally lose the port (e.g. clear, overwrite, change scope, etc...), and fclose(s) will no longer work. The solution is easy fclose(instrfindall) More info at instrfin...

MATLAB Language • Using serial ports