Tag Archives: PowerShell

PowerShell in Unicode, Windows 8 RP and Windows Server 2012 RC

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Maris

I was testing our software with latest version of Microsoft Windows — Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (Windows Server 2012 RC Datacenter). There was some changed behavior in very specific cases for some rarely used … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 3

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Maris

Interview With Sacha Barber in The Code Project. The ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and “value is the same” is used to indicate “nothing has changed”. However, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s PowerShell hangs when output is captured using Windows API

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Maris

I was debugging a program that uses Windows API (Creating a Child Process with Redirected Input and Output) to capture stdout of Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell. Script passed to PowerShell (-File switch) didn’t execute and PowerShell just hanged until killed by … Continue reading →

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