Friday, August 26, 2022

I would love to use Bing but without a Date filter feature that at least mimics Duckduckgo or at best matches google there is NO way I would ever recommend Bing for the business or home.

Solution:

From below Attempted Workarounds:

1) Add ‘Narrow by Date’ query sting params to url :

&tbs=qdr:y

with:

6) Add narrow by date to default search engine:

{bing:baseURL}search?q=%s&tbs=qdr:y&{bing:cvid}{bing:msb}

Attempted Workarounds

Here are the options that I have currently tried , I am personally using option 1 with 6 but it works for only my general searches. When I need something narrower like “Last Month” I have to tweak the url again.

1) Add ‘Narrow by Date’ query sting params to url

last day

&tbs=qdr:d

or year

&tbs=qdr:y

Only date param that seems to use DatePublished and mimics duckduckgo / google functionality

2 ) Add Freshness (not same as datePublished)

freshness=week

freshness=2021-08-23..2022-08-23

This is useless because freshness as design "Freshness refers to the date that Bing originally discovered the webpage, not when the publisher published the webpage." per MS

3) Adding datePublished to search (not sure what this does, does not seem to work)

eg: datePublished=YYYY-MM-DD

4) Adding date range to search value: (doesn’t work)

eg "test search" (Jan. 1 - Feb 18)

5) Some unrelated setting? (doesn’t work)

On the Worldwide screen, select “United States English”. For their own reasons, Bing only supports search-by-date in the United States.

https://www.oyetimes.com/lifestyle/technology/52485-how-to-enable-bing-search-by-date

6) Add narrow by date to default search engine:

{bing:baseURL}search?q=%s&tbs=qdr:y&{bing:cvid}{bing:msb}

Using narrow by Date results

Appendix: Compare results with and without &tbs=qdr:y

With Narrow by Date

Without narrow by date

Friday, August 19, 2022

VS Code : Improve Load Time, Performance, Build and Debugging Speed

Here's How to Make VSCode Faster

So for some reason your VSCode is slow. Really slow. How are you supposed to be productive when the program is running at snail speed? I'm going to show you how to fix this and make VS Code faster.

VS Code Settings to tweak:

1. Minimap

a. "editor.minimap.enabled": false,

Controls whether the minimap is shown I’ve set it to false. In my opinion, it creates visual clutter rather than actually help me while working in a file.

2. editor.linkedEditing — Editor: Linked Editing

a. "editor.linkedEditing": true

I’ve set it to true. As someone who likes to do frontend development, I work with HTML templates a lot.

3. Breadcrumbs thumbnails

a. "breadcrumbs.enabled": false

not use the fancy settings editor, you can manually add this to your configuration:

4. Soft Preview

a. "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false

Disable single click soft preview file, this creates a preview window with any single-click in vs code solution explorer.

5. Whitespace render:

a. "editor.renderWhitespace": "all"

See whitespace usage.

6. Code bracket readability

a. "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false,

"editor.bracketPairColorization.independentColorPoolPerBracketType": true

Improve code readability to improve productivity.

7. Simple file dialog

a. "files.simpleDialog.enable": true

Open file with in-app dialog

8. Powershell and editor optimized settings:

a. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJtWpfn9krX_U5U-KlZDjmM9PAlTeqtSG

9. Window Title

"window.titleSeparator": " |",

"window.title": "${dirty}${remoteName}${separator}${rootName}${separator}${activeEditorShort}${separator}${appName}"

Controls the window title based on the active editor. Variables are substituted based on the context:

10. workbench.tips.enabled

a. "workbench.tips.enabled": false

Disable the tips on load

11. debug.openExplorerOnEnd

a. "debug.openExplorerOnEnd": true

12. Telemetry might impact performance.

a. "telemetry.telemetryLevel": "off"

13. Disable Search on Type.

a. "search.searchOnType": false

14. Stop Notifications

a. "update.showReleaseNotes": false,

b. "workbench.enableExperiments": false

15. Optional:

a. CodeLens Disable

b. Mindmap on/Off

c. Terminal GPU Acceleration

d. Extension Load times: You can easily monitor the startup time of all those plugins by executing cmd + p > Developer: Show Running Extensions.

All the user settings in json:

 "vsicons.dontShowNewVersionMessage": true,
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "editor.linkedEditing": true,
    "breadcrumbs.enabled": false,
    "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
    "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.independentColorPoolPerBracketType": true,
    "files.simpleDialog.enable": true,
    "debug.onTaskErrors": "debugAnyway",
    "diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": false,
    "files.hotExit": "onExitAndWindowClose",
    "workbench.startupEditor": "none",
    "files.autoSaveDelay": 10000,
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
    "editor.snippetSuggestions": "bottom",
    "editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions": false,
    "editor.tabCompletion": "on",
    "update.enableWindowsBackgroundUpdates": false,
    "window.newWindowDimensions": "maximized",
    "window.titleSeparator": " |",
    "window.title": "${dirty}${remoteName}${separator}${rootName}${separator}${activeEditorShort}${separator}${appName}",
    "workbench.tips.enabled": false,
    "debug.openExplorerOnEnd": true,
    "telemetry.telemetryLevel": "off",
    "search.exclude": {
        "": true
    },
    "files.exclude": {
        "**/node_modules": true
    },
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false,
    "search.searchOnType": false,
    "extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true,
    "update.showReleaseNotes": false,
    "workbench.enableExperiments": false

References:

https://bit.ly/3QCrQjR

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https://bit.ly/3QwmxT8

https://bit.ly/3c6dGbT

https://bit.ly/3QCR9CC

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Azure Microsoft Graph Explorer Permissions : How to resolve "Application must have one of the following scopes" Error

Symptoms:

When using the MS Graph Explorer in Azure:

Summary:

Resolving the error "Application must have one of the following scopes" when accessing the GraphAPI

Detail:

If you receive an error with the following substring part in the error message:

"Application is not authorized to perform this operation."

and/or

"Application must have one of the following scopes:"

When accessing the service url : https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/deviceManagement

An example response:

{

"error": {
"code": "Forbidden",
"message": "{\r\n \"_version\": 3,\r\n \"Message\": \"Application is not authorized to perform this operation. Application must have one of the following scopes: DeviceManagementConfiguration.Read.All, DeviceManagementConfiguration.ReadWrite.All - Operation ID (for customer support): 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 - Activity ID: 5c977c7f-ae03-4be0-82c2-408eafb65caf - Url: <

https://fef.msub05.manage.microsoft.com/DeviceConfiguration_1911/StatelessDeviceConfigurationFEService/deviceManagement?api-version=5019-09-20

>\",\r\n \"CustomApiErrorPhrase\": \"\",\r\n \"RetryAfter\": null,\r\n \"ErrorSourceService\": \"\",\r\n \"HttpHeaders\": \"{}\"\r\n}",
"innerError": {
"request-id": "5c977c7f-ae03-4be0-82c2-408eafb65caf",
"date": "2019-11-15T18:53:00"
}
}
}

Resolution:

Sign in to the Azure portal, go to Azure Active Directory > Enterprise Applications, and then select Graph explorer from the list of applications. For example for me : Enterprise Application is at this url
Click "Graph Explorer"
Click Permissions
Search for, Add and then Grant the permission that we want Graph Explorer to execute without error:
With our permission added, we can now execute without error:
Execute:

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Utility Powershell and Dos Commands: Save Output and Commands to file, Get Versions, Get Folder, Update Common Packages

 ###########################  
 # Write output and commands to text file DOS and PS  
 #########################  
 REM Check Version of spfx related packages and save to a file  
 node --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 npm --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 pnp --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 yo --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 gulp -v >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 nvm ls >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 choco --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 type C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log   
 REM save command output to a file and command error output STDERR and STDOUT  
 choco --version 1>> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log 2>&1   
 REM View file in cmd  
 type C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log   
 REM Save commands to append to a file  
 doskey /history >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.Commands.log  
 REM Copy the Command Output to Windows Clipboard  
 REM ould copy the details of your network connections to the clipboard:  
 ipconfig /all | clip  
 REM opy the contents of a folder to the clipboard  
 dir | clip  
 # Powershell save commands + output  
 # ps output to a file, output to a text file with PowerShell on Windows 11 or Windows 10,   
 ipconfig | Out-File -FilePath C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 #view the saved output on the screen  
 Gt-Content -Path C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 # saving BOTH the commands you type AND all their output? I'm not talking about piping the output of any one to a file, like above. Instead, this is about the PowerShell Start-Transcript cmdlet. Try it out some time:  
 Start-Transcript  
 # Without any parameters, the transcript will be saved in the user’s documents folder, filename will automatically be generated and consists of the device name, random characters  
 #e.g:   
 # c:\users\name\documents\PowerShell_transcript.DEVICENAME.qp9EOTN2.20220301132612.txt  
 # Start recording  
 Start-Transcript  
 # stop recording  
 Stop-Transcript  
 # start options  
 # Append to a log file.  
 Start-Transcript -Path C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log -Append  
 #use -NoClobber prevent overwriting file  
 Start-Transcript -Path C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log -NoClobber  
 # -OutputDirectory parameter. This way we can specify the directory where we want to store the log file  
 Start-Transcript -OutputDirectory C:\Temp\Logs  
 # Result:  
 Transcript started, output file is C:\Temp\Logs\PowerShell_transcript.WIN11-LAB02.uftVAXsv.20220301045218.txt  
 # limit the header information to only a timestamp o  
 Start-Transcript -OutputDirectory C:\Temp\Logs -UseMinimalDeader  
 # E.g:  
 **********************  
 PowerShell transcript start  
 Start time: 20220301135543  
 **********************  
 # See also: https://itluke.online/2019/03/24/what-is-captured-with-powershell-transcripts/ for Verbose+Debug levels  
 # See also: https://4sysops.com/archives/powershell-transcript-record-a-session-to-a-text-file/  
 ###########################  
 # Get Versions  
 #########################  
 # PS get version of Spfx imprtant packages  
 node --version   
 npm --version   
 pnp --version   
 yo --version   
 gulp -v   
 nvm ls   
 choco --version   
 winget --version  
 # get version of Powershell  
 host  
 # or  
 $PSVersionTable  
 $PSVersionTable.PSVersion  
 # get the value of the PowerShellVersion parameter in the registry key   
 (Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine -Name 'PowerShellVersion').PowerShellVersion  
 #Version of PowerShell on Remote Computers  
 Invoke-Command -ComputerName 192.168.1.15 -ScriptBlock {$PSVersionTable.PSVersion} -Credential $cred  
 # get version of .Net + .Net Core  
 # versions of the .NET SDK are currently installed with a terminal  
 dotnet --list-sdks  
 (dir (Get-Command dotnet).Path.Replace('dotnet.exe', 'sdk')).Name  
 # which versions of the .NET runtime   
 dotnet --list-runtimes  
 (dir (Get-Command dotnet).Path.Replace('dotnet.exe', 'shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App')).Name  
 # dotnet core installed runtimes and SDKs, as well as some other info:  
 dotnet --info  
 # .NET Framework   
 # get from https://github.com/jmalarcon/DotNetVersions/releases save to C:\Windows\System32 or PATH  
 dotnetversions -b  
 # security updates and hotfixes that are installed on a computer using PowerShell:  
 $DotNetVersions = Get-ChildItem HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Updates | Where-Object {$_.name -like  
  "*.NET Framework*"}  
 ForEach($Version in $DotNetVersions){  
   $Updates = Get-ChildItem $Version.PSPath  
   $Version.PSChildName  
   ForEach ($Update in $Updates){  
     $Update.PSChildName  
     }  
 }  
 # Get CLR versions  
 # displays all the versions of the CLR installed on the computer. dl Clrver.exe (CLR Version Tool)  
 clrver   
 # get version of VS Code / Visual Studio   
 code --version  
 nuget help | select -First 1  
 dotnet nuget --version  
 # change based on version to be checked  
 (Get-Item "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\common7\ide\devenv.exe").VersionInfo.ProductVersion  
 # get paths to GAC  
 gacutil.exe -l  
 # get version of PnP  
 # get version of Spfx  
 REM DOS Get   
 Version of spfx related packages and save to a file  
 node --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 npm --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 pnp --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 yo --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 gulp -v >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 nvm ls >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 choco --version >> C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log  
 type C:\temp\Logs\cmdPrompt.log   
 ###########################  
 # Get Install Folders  
 #########################  
 # get install location of powershell  
 ###########################  
 # Update ps, choco,   
 #########################  
 #update ps core  
 iex "& { $(irm https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) } -UseMSI"  
 # or   
 winget install PowerShell

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Convert Gif to MP4 via ffmpeg

The below command can be used to convert a GIF to an MP4 using the pre-requsite ffmpeg app on Windows:

1. Open notepad, create a bat file : e.g: "fmpg.bat"

2. Add the following : replace paths as needed:

cd [PathToFFMpeg]\FFMpeg\bin

echo fn %~n1

echo INFILE- %1

echo OUTFILE- [PathOutput]\%~n1.mp4

ffmpeg -i "%1" -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" [PathOutput]\%~n1.mp4

Usage:

fmpg "C:\MyGifs\1.gif"

Example:

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Azure Microsoft Graph Explorer Permissions : How to resolve "Application must have one of the following scopes" Error

Symptoms:

When using the MS Graph Explorer in Azure:

If you recie b an eeor with the follwing substring text in the error message:

"Application is not authorized to perform this operation. Application must have one of the following scopes:"

For example:

Url:https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/deviceManagement

Response:

{

https://fef.msub05.manage.microsoft.com/DeviceConfiguration_1911/StatelessDeviceConfigurationFEService/deviceManagement?api-version=5019-09-20

Resolution:

Sign in to the Azure portal, go to Azure Active Directory > Enterprise Applications, and then select Graph explorer from the list of applications. For example for me : Enterprise Application is at this url
Click "Graph Explorer"
Click Permissions
Search for, Add and then Grant the permission that we want Graph Explorer to execute without error:
With our permission added, we can now execute without error:
Execute:

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Get Powershell Version : various methods to get the version of Powershell

There are numerous ways to do the same thing in Powershell. In this post, we will go over every way to check the PowerShell version. All these ways should work in both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core.

Here are the ways to get the version of PowerShell :

The $host.Version property
The (Get-Host).Version property
The $PSVersionTable.PSVersion property
The registry (Windows PowerShell only)

Another method is getting the Powershell version from a remote computer:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.0.0.5 -ScriptBlock {Get-Host} -Credential $cred

results in for example:

Major Minor Build Revision PSComputerName ----- ----- ----- -------- -------------- 1 0 0 0 10.0.0.5

Using $host and Get-Host command

: Referencing $host.Version is another way to check Powershell version. The $host variable is an automatic variable that returns the same output as Get-Host.

$host.Version on Remote Computers

You will see the same behavior via PowerShell Remoting with $host.Version as you will running Get-Host.

Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.0.0.5 -ScriptBlock {$host.Version} -Credential $cred

Registry

If you don’t want to open up PowerShell itself, you can also check the registry. The version of PowerShell is tucked away under a value in the registry key path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine. This registry key has a value called PowerShellVersion that you can reference by using Get-ItemProperty.

(Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine -Name 'PowerShellVersion').PowerShellVersion 5.1.17134.1

Also WMI:

reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine /v PowerShellVersion HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine PowerShellVersion REG_SZ 5.1.17134.1

Registry on a remote computer:

$scriptBlock = { [version](Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\PowerShellEngine -Name 'PowerShellVersion').PowerShellVersion } PS51> Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.0.0.5 -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock -Credential $cred

Version via $PSVersionTable.

PSVersion property on the $PSVersionTable automatic variable. This method will always represent the PowerShell engine.

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Friday, August 26, 2022

New DotNetCurry.com Tutorials including C# 11 for August 2022

Monday, August 22, 2022

How to filter Bing results by Date? The Date filter is missing on bing, here is a work-around

Intro:

More Information:

Question:

Solution:

Attempted Workarounds

Using narrow by Date results

Friday, August 19, 2022

VS Code : Improve Load Time, Performance, Build and Debugging Speed

Here's How to Make VSCode Faster

VS Code Settings to tweak:

1. Minimap

Azure Microsoft Graph Explorer Permissions : How to resolve "Application must have one of the following scopes" Error

Summary:

Detail:

Resolution:

See Also:

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Utility Powershell and Dos Commands: Save Output and Commands to file, Get Versions, Get Folder, Update Common Packages

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Convert Gif to MP4 via ffmpeg

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Azure Microsoft Graph Explorer Permissions : How to resolve "Application must have one of the following scopes" Error

Symptoms:

Response:

Resolution:

See Also:

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Get Powershell Version : various methods to get the version of Powershell

Here are the ways to get the version of PowerShell :

Another method is getting the Powershell version from a remote computer:

Using $host and Get-Host command

$host.Version on Remote Computers

Registry

Version via $PSVersionTable.