Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• My NUnit pull request accepted

  15 Nov, 2014

  Announcement that a NUnit pull request fixing invalid XML character handling was merged and referenced in NUnit source code.

• PowerShell Start-Job WTF

  21 Jun, 2014

  Troubleshoots Start-Job scope issues with PSScriptRoot and shows how to invoke a script path asynchronously using ScriptBlock.Create.

• PowerShell Start-Process WTF

  20 Jun, 2014

  Documents a known PowerShell bug where Start-Process -PassThru does not expose ExitCode, with a workaround using Process.Start.

• PowerShell .NET property access swallows exceptions

  19 Jun, 2014

  Demonstrates that PowerShell silently returns null when a .NET property getter throws an exception, and how to avoid it.

• Escaping Invalid XML Unicode characters

  15 Jun, 2014

  Step-by-step derivation of a C# regex to strip or escape characters invalid in XML, handling UTF-16 surrogate pairs correctly.

• NUnit pull request

  15 Jun, 2014

  Announcement of a pull request submitted to the NUnit framework to fix invalid XML character handling in test output.

• My old NUnit _pull request_

  15 Jun, 2014

  Retrospective on a NUnit v2 bug fix submitted before pull requests existed, credited only via a manual description.

• Stripping invalid characters from UTF-16 strings

  14 Jun, 2014

  C# regex approach to remove unpaired UTF-16 surrogate characters from strings to ensure valid Unicode output.

• Unicode literals in PowerShell

  13 Jun, 2014

  How to express Unicode character literals in PowerShell using char casts and ConvertFromUtf32, including surrogate pair handling.

• Another GitExtensions file history issue

  11 Jun, 2014

  Reports and proposes a fix for another file history bug in GitExtensions.