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RickStrahl / VoiceDictation.cs

Last active March 30, 2025 18:46

Windows Media Speech Recognition/Dictation

	using System;
	using System.Diagnostics;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Threading.Tasks;
	using Windows.Media.SpeechRecognition;
	using System.Windows.Controls;
	using System.Windows.Input;
	using Westwind.Utilities;
	using MarkdownMonster.Windows;
	using Windows.Globalization;

stesee / DisableTelemetryVS2022.ps1

Last active October 7, 2025 19:53

	#Requires -RunAsAdministrator

	# Disable telemetry in Visual Studio 2022 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/visual-studio-experience-improvement-program?view=vs-2022
	New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VSCommon\17.0\SQM" -Name "OptIn" -Value "0" -PropertyType "DWORD" -Force

	# Delete telemetry directories
	Remove-Item -Path "$env:APPDATA\vstelemetry" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	Remove-Item -Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\VSApplicationInsights" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	Remove-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMDATA\Microsoft\VSApplicationInsights" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	Remove-Item -Path "$env:TEMP\Microsoft\VSApplicationInsights" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

massimopiccardo / #Effortless SQL Query Crafting: Unleashing GitHub Copilot's.txt

Last active June 11, 2025 00:26

These are the files used in "Effortless SQL Query Crafting: Unleashing GitHub Copilot's Power" Medium post

	These are the files used in Effortless SQL Query Crafting: Unleashing GitHub Copilot's Power post. See here:

	https://medium.com/@massimopiccardo/effortless-sql-query-crafting-unleashing-github-copilots-power-d09136e92de8

	DatabaseContextCreation_base.sql --> A basic query to generate a list of comments to use as a context for copilot generated queries
	DatabaseContextCreation_relations.sql --> An evolution of the base one, adding foreing keys information
	DatabaseContextCreation_descriptions.sql --> Another evolution, adding table and column free text descriptions
	sp_AddUpdateDescription.sql --> A stored procedure to simplify the definition of descriptions ofr tables and columns

ygoe / ps-csharp.cmd

Created January 29, 2022 23:20

Write your Windows batch files in C# (using PowerShell)

	<# :
	@echo off & setlocal & set __args=%* & %SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command Invoke-Expression ('. { ' + (Get-Content -LiteralPath ""%~f0"" -Raw) + ' }' + $env:__args) & exit /b %ERRORLEVEL%
	#> Add-Type @'
	// ========== BEGIN C# CODE ==========
	using System;

	public class App
	{
	public static void Run(string[] args)
	{

richardszalay / IISAssemblyDebugging.psm1

Created June 14, 2019 02:56

Enable/Disable JIT optimizations for assemblies so they can be debugged with dnSpy

	Set-StrictMode -Version Latest
	$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

	function Enable-IISAssemblyDebugging
	{
	param(
	[string]$Path = ".",
	[string]$Filter = "*.dll"
	)

olljanat / Find-OrphanDockerLayers.ps1

Last active May 13, 2025 09:46

Find Windows containers orphan layers

	param (
	[switch]$RenameOrphanLayers
	)

	If ($RenameOrphanLayers) {
	Write-Warning "$($env:COMPUTERNAME) -RenameOrphanLayers option enabled, will rename all orphan layers"
	}

	# Get known layers on Docker images
	[array]$ImageDetails += docker images -q \| ForEach { docker inspect $_ \| ConvertFrom-Json }

sverrirs / AutoCompleteExt.cs

Created November 2, 2018 09:54

AutoComplete in .NET through the Windows Shell (provides more options than default implementation)

	using System;
	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

	/// <summary>
	/// From: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3792/C-does-Shell-Part-4
	/// Note: The UCOMIEnumString interface is deprecated in .NET as of 2018!
	/// </summary>
	public class AutoCompleteExt {
	public static Guid CLSID_AutoComplete = new Guid("{00BB2763-6A77-11D0-A535-00C04FD7D062}");

mattifestation / CollectDotNetEvents.ps1

Created August 27, 2018 21:50

A PoC script to capture relevant .NET runtime artifacts for the purposes of potential detections

	logman --% start dotNetTrace -p Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime (JitKeyword,NGenKeyword,InteropKeyword,LoaderKeyword) win:Informational -o dotNetTrace.etl -ets

	# Do your evil .NET thing now. In this example, I executed the Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe bypass

	# logman stop dotNetTrace -ets

	# This is the process ID of the process I want to capture. In this case, Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe
	# I got the process ID by running a procmon trace
	$TargetProcessId = 8256

timabell / assoc.ps1

Last active December 6, 2022 15:22

set windows file associations

	# https://gist.github.com/timabell/bc90e0808ec1cda173ca09225a16e194
	# MIT license
	$exts=@(
	"csv",
	"csproj",
	"json",
	"log",
	"md",
	"patch",
	"sql",

kitmenke / finderrors.ps1

Created August 1, 2016 02:45

Working in progress: powershell script to automatically fix DCOM errors which show up in the event log

	# Get-EvengLog doesn't quite work I guess:
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31396903/get-eventlog-valid-message-missing-for-some-event-log-sources#
	# Get-EventLog Application -EntryType Error -Source "DistributedCOM"
	# The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
	#$logs = Get-EventLog -LogName "System" -EntryType Error -Source "DCOM" -Newest 1 -Message "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID*"
	# 2 is error
	# 3 is warning
	$EVT_MSG = "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID"
	# Search for System event log ERROR entries starting with the specified EVT_MSG
	$logEntry = Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{LogName='System'; Level=2} \| Where-Object { $_.Message -like "$EVT_MSG*" } \| Select-Object -First 1

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