Category: Computers

Mac OS X and Windows

Escape Characters in Windows Command Line

Escape Characters in Windows’ CMD.EXE doesn't entirely work for me. I wanted to embed or escape quote characters in a command line, to give to the binPath parameter of sc.exe to create a windows service. But this contribution from John McNelly in the comments did give the solution:

John McNelly •  Jun 4, 2009 @1:10 pm

You can also use ^ as a line continuation character for readability.
To escape an embedded ” use a backslash, useful with paths within “c:\Program Files” :

sc.exe create Foo ^
binPath= "\"C:\Program Files\foo.exe\" \"C:\Program Files\foo.ini\"" ^
displayName= "Hello, world"

Thanks John.

Weave The People Technology for Connecting People

Weave The People is a cute bit of technology led by a friend of mine, that helps you to get the most out of meetings by getting people to interact and think before the meeting starts.

Pragmatically it gives you a flying start on the business of your meeting; socially it gives you a chance to get to know people early. Like all things ground-breaking, it's a bit hard to categorise. Try it and see.

Don’t do iisreset do …

a mini batch file in your start menu, when you're debugging the application startup of a .Net application, and keep wanting to restart it:

taskkill /im aspnet_wp.exe /f
if not errorlevel == 0 pause

or 

taskkill /im w3wp.exe /f
if not errorlevel == 0 pause

which does the job much faster.

Assuming, of course, that your reason for wanting to do an iis reset was to force a .Net application restart. And you don't mind forcing all running .Net applications to restart. And you're not on a busy production machine at rushhour.