I put the following function in my PowerShell profile so that I can just bring up my PowerShell console and type myself a quick “todo” note that automatically gets emailed to me for later. There are several things of note in this tiny script: 1. Note the use of the $args variable to effectively allow the user to enter $msg parameter without quotes even if it contains whitespace. 2. In this particular example I’m sending the email through Gmail. smtp.gmail.com, port 587, SSL and authentication required. ...
Last week I went into quite a bit of detail on C# struct (here) and the consequences of using a struct versus a class to represent complex data types. In the course of that article, I had a section describing the differences between value types and reference types and thought I would expand upon one of the ideas in there which seems to confuse some folks who are new to C#: parameter passing nuances. But first, let's lay the groundwork with some definitions: Parameter - the variable defined in a method ...