I was wondering how long before I have to change my password at a client-site. Scripting to the rescue, scroll down to the bottom of this page, copy the code into a expiration.vbs file and start it from the commandline using start expiration.vbs

1. In a local situation you are stuck with a directory on your system which doesn’t contain anything sensible: your local repository
2. It is not easy to convert a local directory to a working copy under version control (add/commit/checkout)

Now I’ve switched to Git and I will undoubtly find issues using it, but so far my two main frustrations are solved with three lines of code

git init
git add .
git commit -m "First commit"

It appears that the feeds have a limit for the number of items they can contain, this limit is by default set at 200. That’s not enough for me. You can set the limit by modifying the feed properties, but that would mean I needed to right-click al the feeds (100+) so I needed another way to modify all the feeds. Of course the Windows RSS Platform has an API, so some programming will come to the rescue. I originally thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to delve into Powershell, but it appears that Powershell is not yet available for Vista at this moment

So some JavaScript to the rescue. Run it using cscript, and all feeds will be modified.

  var feedsManager, rootFolder;
  feedsManager = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.FeedsManager");
  rootFolder = feedsManager.RootFolder;
  iterateFolders(rootFolder);

  function iterateFolders(folder)
  {
    if (null == folder) return;
    var currentFolder;
    var e = new Enumerator(folder.Subfolders);
    for(;!e.atEnd();e.moveNext())
    {
      currentFolder = e.item();
      iterateFolders(currentFolder);
    }
    iterateFeeds(folder);
  }

  function iterateFeeds(feedFolder)
  {
    if (null == feedFolder) return;
    var feed;
    var e = new Enumerator(feedFolder.Feeds);
    for(;!e.atEnd();e.moveNext())
    {
      feed=e.item();
      //feed.MaxItemCount = feedsManager.ItemCountLimit;
      feed.MaxItemCount = 0;
      WScript.Echo(feed.Name + ": " + feed.MaxItemCount);
    }
  }

Update: I previously set the MaxItemcount to the ItemCountLimit (2500), set it to 0 to set it to unlimited

This is the first ever public blog I’m running. Not that this is my first blogpost, I used to work for a company where every employee has his own blog and loved sharing information that way.

I work for LogicaCMG in the Netherlands as a Microsoft Consultant and for the past decade I’ve been building, designing, teaching, presenting and architecting software systems on the Microsoft platform. Starting at VB4 16-bit in 1996 up till the .Net framework 3.0 now and I ain’t gonna quit very soon