Comments for Laurent Schneider

Comment on My first .NET gui in Powershell by Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:47:35 +0000

Ok about reinventing, copying, etc. Microsoft took the best of unix, visual basic and .net and made it an excellent shell with full access to your .net libraries. All pipes, subshell, access to your windows resources, service, registry, xml, database, sharepoint. A world of features!

I like it a lot more than Perl. No doubt!

Comment on My first .NET gui in Powershell by Bernard polarski

Bernard polarski — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:32:19 +0000

Reinventing TCL/tk or Perl. It is just a new syntax to learn that will do not better what has already been achieved by others.

Comment on EURO symbol, sqlplus, cmd.exe and various issues by Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:45:43 +0000

still, you remark makes sense as a pure MS-DOS console would not allow a mswin 1252 codepage. As the latest MSDOS version is almost two decades old, I suppose it would be very little benefit to show how to display the euro symbol in native MS-DOS. But chcp 1252 and .net won’t help for sure

Comment on EURO symbol, sqlplus, cmd.exe and various issues by Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:10:52 +0000

well, that’s nitpick indeed. So CMD.EXE is Windows and COMMAND.COM is DOS?


H:\>cmd
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

H:\>command
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

or is command.com MSWINDOS and MSDOS is where you used to start WIN.COM

Comment on EURO symbol, sqlplus, cmd.exe and various issues by Hans

Hans — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:46:24 +0000

Just a littel nitpick: you are *not* using MSDOS when you run SQL*Plus.

The commandline in Windows has nothing to do with DOS (or MSDOS) it is a native Windows commandline.

Comment on EURO symbol, sqlplus, cmd.exe and various issues by Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:59:33 +0000

I would not be able to explain it better than in note 264294.1 mswin1252 is a superset of iso8859p1 and the migration path is easy for small db with little to no rubish in varchar2 field (I am currently in the process of migrating a db with 99.998% good data, which is everything but 3M rows) If you are 100% microsoft allergic, with no microsoft client, nothing related to windows and dos etc, you may want to try we8iso8859p15, which is a logical (but not binary-compatible) subset of we8mswin1252, but really why do that? There is no advantage I can think of

Comment on EURO symbol, sqlplus, cmd.exe and various issues by Colin 't Hart

Colin 't Hart — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:31:40 +0000

Can you explain why WE8MSWIN1252 a better choice than WE8ISO8859P15?

Comment on Create helloworld.exe file in powershell by Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:38:45 +0000

@gaspyr thanks for the hint on how to activate it in w2k8

Comment on Create helloworld.exe file in powershell by gaspyr

gaspyr — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:35:04 +0000

powershell is pre-installed on windows 7 in its version 2.0, but u can still get the version 1.0 for windows vista or XP from the windows update.

as for windows server 2008, it’s pre-installed however u’ve to go and activate it by using the “Add a feature” option of ur Server Manager.

Comment on Create helloworld.exe file in powershell by karoly

karoly — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:05:24 +0000

Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t test on w2k8 servers, only on older. Not the hole world takes all the security advices really taken seriously. not spoken from supports, but this is an another story…