1. Create Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge Key
2. Create Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\HubsSidebarEnabled DWORD
3. Open edge://policy/ in Edge and click Reload Policies to check setting applied

Program: explorer.exe
Arguments: paintdotnet:%1
Friendly Name: paint.net

Or change the name of the target folder during the clone:-

scp –r pi@mynaturewatchcamera:/home/pi/NaturewatchCameraServer/naturewatch_camera_server/static/data ~/Desktop/data

Paste plain text in MS Office ALT, H, V, T consecutively

• %PROGRAMFILES%
• %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%
• %APPDATA%
• %LOCALAPPDATA%
• %USERPROFILE%
• %PROGRAMDATA%

• StackOverflow: Set ApartmentState for async void main
• StackOverflow: WPF App, run async task before opening Window

Via Visual Studio Code

• Install ms-vscode.powershell extension.
• Integrated console will load and prompt to update if available.
• On MacOS, Homebrew may complain and require brew upgrade --cask powershell be run instead

1. EF doesn’t support unsigned types. Use long for uint.
2. [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.None)] attribute to turn off auto generated keys.
3. DbContext.Table.RemoveRange(from c in DbContext.Table select c) to clear table. Or ((IObjectContextAdapter)DbContext).ObjectContext.ExecuteStoreCommand("TRUNCATE TABLE [Table]") for quick and dirty.
4. [Key] attribute to define primary key
5. Use [Table("[Table]")] on class for table name

Creating a background task for a UWP app requires a Windows Runtime Component as host
(for out-of-process background tasks). Among the limitations for creating Windows Runtime Components is the inability to expose Task and Task<TResult> as part of the signature of a public method.

Regex illegalInFileName = new Regex(@"[\\/:*?""<>|]");
string myString = illegalInFileName.Replace(myString, "");

Removing characters which are not allowed in Windows filenames

‘In the Core Project (.NET Standard Project) Properties > Compilation > Advanced > Select “PDB Only”’

Doesn’t work with .NET Core dlls due to pdb format

Add to wpf project file

<PropertyGroup>
   <RestoreProjectStyle>PackageReference</RestoreProjectStyle>
</PropertyGroup>

When accessing a remote port from a UWP app, using TcpClient, an ExtendedSocketException ‘An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions’ is thrown.

No straightforward way of adding exception handling to a LINQ expression using query syntax.

• ListView/ObservableCollection Sorting/Filtering/Grouping Examples?
• StackOverflow: UWP ObservableCollection sorting and grouping
• ListViews and The Task Store in a Universal Windows App
• Filtering and Sorting a ListView in a UWP – Part 1 – The UX
• Filtering and Sorting a ListView in a UWP – Part 2 – The Code

Add an app.manifest file to the Project and use the System.Security.Principal namespace to check at runtime whether privileges have been provided.

Or rather, dont.

Via @zekjur

UI described in post is already out-of-date. Azure interface setup is fussy with no detailed error messages.

Simple chrome extension to hide distracting sidebar elements on StackOverflow.

With the side effect of learning how to create simple Chrome extensions. This answer assumes you want to see them on other StackExchange sites.

• Removing XML Elements Using PowerShell
• Empty Elements with self closing tags
• An Xml Tidy in PowerShell or Formatting Xml with Indenting with PowerShell

• StackOverflow: csv reformatting with powershell
• Easily Remove Columns from a CSV File by Using PowerShell
• PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Read Tab Delimited File

Via Exploring the IMAGE PowerShell Module

Via StackOverflow: how to export a class in powershell v5 module

Requires a local (i.e. non-GitHub) build.

• Editing image exif tags
• StackOverflow: How do I edit JPG File Title, Subject, Comments, and Tags/Keywords? - Follow Up
• StackOverflow: How to Add ‘Comments’ to a JPEG File Using C#

jot -w 2017/%02d 12 | xargs mkdir -p

For heathergraph, based on How to check if a Git pull is needed. Makes a bit of a mess of logging to console but does the job.

Python based text email print server for Raspberry Pi and Pipsta

curl -I <url>

Add bcm2835-v4l2 to /etc/modules

After you inevitably break your Windows Subsystem for Linux you can ‘factory reset’ it (including the file system) by running the following from an elevated Windows command prompt.

On all my Ubuntu on Windows installs to date I’ve initially got a sudo: unable to resolve host [PCNAME] error when running a command with sudo.

Bash for the Code Throne

From Windows Vista onwards Microsoft have provided API functions to monitor changes to the Clipboard.

The Dropbox folder path is stored in info.json in the Dropbox Application Data and Local Application Data folders.

Historically the default ‘Email’ button in Word/Excel had some limitations that made it mostly unusable. It’s tendency not to save messages to ‘Sent Items’ being it’s worst fault, but also the default Subject and Body content weren’t great. To get around these limitations I’d been using a custom ‘Email Document’ button attached to an ‘EmailDocument’ macro. After upgrading to Office 2016 this stopped working.

Fonts for the Font god

Not compatible with having next/previous post links but potential improvement coming from rss feed/twitter.

Used a variation on this to create redirects for post and project links.

Pebble Watchface created using Pebble Developer Tutorials.

Copy of pebble-examples/pebblekit-js-weather with additional functionality.

The first rule of C is don’t write C if you can avoid it.

Revisited creating a tags page for this blog. Pretty straightforward apart from having to correct all of the post tag formats.

Code by Charles Petzold is an excellent read, “a unique exploration into bits, bytes, and the inner workings of computers”. I thought it would be interesting to write an application to generate the combination of Braille, Morse and Binary found on the cover for any text input. I assumed someone would have done this already as the book is now a good 15 years old. If they have I couldn’t find it.

My desktop pc stopped showing any contents for Quick access in File Explorer a couple of days ago. Reddit provides various suggestions.

When Windows 8.1 came out Computer in the Windows Explorer Navigation Pane was renamed to This PC and a load of User folder links were added to it.

Has to be pre-compiled for GitHub pages sadly. Four years old so maybe it’s supported now. This is a To-Do reminder really.

The solution suggested on various forums is to run ‘sfc /scannow’ from an Administrator Command Prompt and then restart Outlook.

As with most xaml based apps there are any number of ways of ordering a list of items. A quick and straightforward way to do this entirely in xaml is to use a CollectionViewSource.

Having had middling success including code in posts here I wondered whether it was possible to embed gists instead of relying on markdown and css.

Dropbox

A couple of posts from Kirill Osenkov on Visual Studio Solution and Project configuration.

In trying to create a custom control for a Windows Phone 8.1 project I was having an odd problem where StringFormat didn’t seem to be supported by the TextBlock control Text property any more so the following “Unsupported” style raised an error against StringFormat=T:

And the Front Matter ‘title’ variable overrides it the same as the ‘date’ variable. Which makes sense if you think about it.

Jekyll Now didn’t include support for Font Awesome icons so I ha(a?)cked them in by copying the method used by Haacked.

Test post using the “Post” link at the top of the page.

Rough and ready parser for read.md using RegEx for read.md

A regex to parse read.md

GitHub, not unreasonably, has a read-only mobile site. Writing this on the desktop site on my phone is fairly awful. Even ignoring my terrible memory wrt the header values.

Bit of a cheat as I’ve just done the phone post and so therefore can just about remember all the criteria for a valid post. Maybe try again later and see how that goes.

(Test of external URL posts).

There are various ways of doing this. This one has been done by forking the Jekyll Now repository on GitHub.