You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

ActiveXNames.txt A list of ActiveX class IDs; used to populate the ClassID pop-up menu in the ActiveX inspector. defaultStyles.xml The default styles that appear in the HTML Styles palette for a new ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam as of May 23, 2025. With its launch, you may be looking for the save file location of this new ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...