How to connect to a Wireless WIFI Network from the Command line in Windows 7

C:\>netsh wlan connect name=HANSELMAN-N

Connection request was completed successfully.

More Details

What happened there? Well, the command line is netsh wlan and the full one is

netsh wlan connect ssid=YOURSSID name=PROFILENAME

What's a profile? It's the only thing required. You can see them with:

C:\>netsh wlan show profile

Profiles on interface Wireless Network Connection:
...snip..
User profiles
-------------
All User Profile : Clear Spot b0e
All User Profile : HANSELMAN-N
All User Profile : Quiznos

These are the same ones that you see in the wireless networks dialog

More Details

What happened there? Well, the command line is netsh wlan and the full one is

netsh wlan connect ssid=YOURSSID name=PROFILENAME

What's a profile? It's the only thing required. You can see them with:

C:\>netsh wlan show profile

Profiles on interface Wireless Network Connection:
...snip..
User profiles
-------------
All User Profile : Clear Spot b0e
All User Profile : HANSELMAN-N
All User Profile : Quiznos

These are the same ones that you see in the wireless networks dialog

You can set these up and refer to them by name from the command line, or a batch file, etc. Nice to do for the places you are regularly.

If you have multiple wireless cards (What's wrong with you!?) then you have to be more specific:

netsh wlan connect ssid=YOURSSID name=PROFILENAME interface="WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION"

And of course, you can

netsh wlan disconnect

And include the interface optionally, for multiple interfaces. Additionally, interesting things can be seen with

netsh wlan dump

This is nice because you can

netsh wlan dump > myconfig.txt

on one machine and then later on another machine

netsh exec myconfig.txt

All this command line love will work in most versions of Windows, actually, not just 7 AFAIK. There's lots of more detail and docs on managing Wireless Profiles on the Web.

Enjoy! (From Scott Hanselman Blog)

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Released Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:50:00 Z

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System Requirements for Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows® 7; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2
x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008 R2;
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2; Windows VistaTM Service Pack 2;
Windows XP Service Pack 3
+ Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 – all editions except Starter Edition
+ Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition
+ Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
+ Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions
• Users will need to install MSXML6 if not already present
+ Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64) – all editions
+ Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions
+ Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) – all editions
Supported Architectures:
+ 32-Bit (x86)
+ 64-Bit (x64) (WOW)
Hardware Requirements:
+ Computer with a 1.6GHz or faster processor
+ 1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine)
+ 3 GB of available hard-disk space
+ 5400 RPM hard drive
+ DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 (or higher) resolution display