ClickOnce Installation without trust prompt

ClickOnce deployment is an easy way to publish .Net Applications. When you install a ClickOnce application you normally get a trust prompt window where you have to choose if you really want to install the application. This could make things complicated when you want to remote install an application on client machines.

Azure: Start and Shutdown a virtual machine using PowerShell

Microsoft Azures has a lot of useful features for programmers. At the moment I often create virtual machines in the cloud to test different solutions. Most of the Azure VM commands can be executed using powershell.

Powershell: Get all properties and property values of an object

Today I tried to change some service application properties. One parameter which was mentioned in a msdn article did not exist. Therefore I tried to find out the real name of the parameter. In Powershell you can use a nice oneliner to give you all properties of an object and the current values of this properties.