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For some time, I needed a way to use caffeinate on Windows. If you are coming from macOS, you know how useful this utility can be when you want to keep the computer awake for some definite or indefinite time. So, following the engineer mindset, I decided to build my own, starting with a PowerShell script.

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Learn how to produce native Windows 10 toast notifications from your PowerShell script.

An overview of the automation process to generate API documentation for .NET libraries.

An overview of the .NET API documentation process on the docs.microsoft.com team.

How to install the latest version of .NET Core on a build agent you don’t fully control.

Learn how to programmatically scrobble a track to Last.fm.

Moving configuration storage from on-premises to the cloud.

Make sure that you are aware of some gotchas when it comes to handling deserialization routines.

How to make sure that your own application can open YouTube links.

I am looking at the internals of the YouTube library that ships with Windows Phone.

My thoughts on two different user interface frameworks shipped as part of the .NET platform.

I describe an easy way to get the list of friends using native Facebook application programming interfaces.

How to show weather information in the Windows 7 taskbar using native system functionality.