Thursday, July 28, 2011

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)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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

Download try version from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch/try

Visual-Studio-LightSwitch-2011-Reviewers-Guide


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

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate

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MSDN Subscribers: Download the Release Candidate

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, February 8th, with general availability on February 10th.

Monday, December 7, 2009

What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are now available to download. .NET 4 Beta 2 contains several new BCL features and enhancements in addition to what was included in .NET 4 Beta 1. Many of these improvements were added in large part due to specific feedback and suggestions reported by customers through Microsoft Connect.

•Complex Number
•Location
•IObservable
•Stream.CopyTo
•Guid.TryParse, Version.TryParse, and Enum.TryParse
•Enum.HasFlag
•String.Concat and String.Join overloads that take IEnumerable
•String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace
•Environment.SpecialFolder additions
•Environment.Is64BitProcess and Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem
•Path.Combine params support
•TimeSpan Globalized Formatting and Parsing
•Stopwatch.Restart
•StringBuilder.Clear
•IntPtr and UIntPtr Addition and Subtraction operators
•ServiceProcessInstaller.DelayedAutoStart
•ObservableCollection moved to System.dll

Monday, November 23, 2009

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta available


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Enabling Business Application Development

  • Printing
  • Localization with Bi-Directional and Script-Based Text and Right-to-Left Support
  • Rich Text Area Control
  • Text Input
  • WCF RIA Services
  • Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
  • Viewbox Control
  • Auto-Sizing Columns and Copy from DataGrid
  • Navigation Page Loading Extensibility
  • Command Property on ButtonBase and Hyperlink
  • SelectedValue and SelectedValuePath on the Selector
  • Support for Referer Header
  • UDP Multicast Client Support
  • Authentication Support with ClientHttpWebRequest
  • IDataErrorInfo
  • INotifyDataErrorInfo
  • Grouping on CollectionViewSource
  • Editable CollectionView IEditableCollectionView
  • Binding to String Indexers
  • StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue
  • Databinding Support for Dependency Objects
  • ObservableCollection Constructor Accepts IList and IEnumerable
  • Empowering Richer Experiences
  • Fluid UI States for ItemsControl
  • Implicit Styles
  • MouseWheel Support
  • Right Mouse Click
  • Programmatic Clipboard Access
  • Webcam and Microphone Support
  • CompositeTransform
  • Support for all PNG Formats
  • Offline Digital Rights Management
  • MP4 Playback Protected DRM
  • WMS Multicast
  • Output Protection

Moving Beyond the Browser – Sandboxed Applications
  • Out-of-Browser Windowing Updates
  • WebBrowser Control
  • HtmlBrush
  • Notifications (Toast)

Moving Beyond the Browser – Trusted Applications
  • Native Integration
  • File System Access
  • Cross-Domain Networking Access
  • Full File Path on Open and Save Dialogs
  • Full Keyboard in Full Screen Mode



Note: Silverlight 4 Beta is a developer release. There is no “go-live” licensing available as the end-user runtime of Silverlight 4 Beta is not generally available.


Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Microsoft Innovation Day & Steve Ballmer Key note Speaker

Date: April 22nd  2009.

Location: Intercontinental City Stars, ElSaraya Ballroom

Start

End

Session

Speaker

Community

9:00

10:00

Registration & Coffee Break - Recruitment Booths - Surprise Fun Activity

10:00

10:30

Opening Speech

Ahmed Adel

10:30

10:45

How Do I: Work with Fantastic 40 MOSS templates

Shady Khorshed

Barmagy

10:50

11:05

???

???

EGJUG

11:10

11:25

How Do I: Protect from Cross Site Request Forgery Attack in ASP.NET

Mostafa Siraj

Cutting Edge

11:30

11:45

How Do I: Use Jquery in SharePoint

Marwan Tarek

EGYSUG

11:50

12:05

How Do I: Code Fun, Hello Facebook

???

Innovation-Hut

12:10

12:25

???

???

dotNETWORK

12:30

1:00

Executive Speech

MS Exec

1:00

1:30

Communities Q&A

1:30

2:30

Lunch Break

2:30

3:15

A lap around Azure and Cloud computing concepts

Mohamed Sami

3:15

4:00

Developing in a Hybrid Environment

Mohamed Nar & Nohal Rady

4:00

4:30

Coffee Break

4:30

5:15

The Future: Software + Services

Mohamed Fayez