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ASCIIART

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Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework,System.Windows.Forms

# Set screen working area, and start and finish location of the window 'top' property (for animation)
$workingArea = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea
$TopStart = $workingArea.Top - 449
$TopFinish = $workingArea.Top + 10

[xml]$Xaml = @"
<Window 
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

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# Demo script to display a custom 'toast' notification

# Load required assemblies
Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework, System.Windows.Forms

# User-populated variables
$WindowHeight = 140
$WindowWidth = 480
$Title = "New Blog Post by SMSAgent!"
$Text = "Trevor Jones has posted a new blog: Create a custom toast notification with WPF and PowerShell. Click here to read."

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Function New-WPFMessageBox {

    # For examples for use, see my blog:
    # https://smsagent.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/a-customisable-wpf-messagebox-for-powershell/
    
    # CHANGES
    # 2017-09-11 - Added some required assemblies in the dynamic parameters to avoid errors when run from the PS console host.
    
    # Define Parameters
    [CmdletBinding()]

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function Get-WindowsVersion
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param
    (
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true,
            ValueFromPipeline = $true
        )]

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# powershell cheatsheet
##############################################

# restart computer

Restart-Computer -Force # force restart

# handbrake batch processing
$filelist = Get-ChildItem D:\Video\ -Filter *.wmv

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Dotnet or not Dotnet this is the question we will ask in this post

Lets find out if the .NET .Where() method is significantly faster than their equivalent in native PowerShell In this post, we'll compare the performance of native PowerShell methods with their .NET counterparts, specifically focusing on the .Where() method. We'll also use the .net[Linq.Enumerable] class to analyze a different dataset - passenger data from the Titanic - instead of the usual Active Directory user data.

The Code We'll be using three different methods to compare performance:

# Define a collection of objects

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3 ways to sort a list unique

https://devdojo.com/hcritter/3-ways-to-sort-a-list-unique

Sort-Object -Unique Get-Unique HashSet-Class First we will create 3 different lists containing random strings in several sizes (small, medium, large)

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# .NET Types

$([System.Char])
$([System.Char]::ConvertFromUtf32())
$([System.Char]0x2013)
$([System.Char]0x00A9)

# Start a new process (e.g., Notepad)
$process = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("notepad.exe")