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How can I write a nested arbitrary associative Array value set to a .psd1 file in powershell?

I have a powershell Array object that is programmatically generated, something with arrays inside arrays, inside arrays, sometimes called a "property bag" or a "hashtable", but I think it's natively called an "Array containing Arrays" in the most…
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What is the best way to represent a type-safe property bag in a class?

I have a 3rd party application that provides an object with many "attributes", which are simply pairs of (string) keys and values. The value types can be either strings, DateTime, Int32 or Int64. I need to create my own class to represent this…
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How to clone an object in VB6

I am trying to automatically clone an object without having to instantiate a new one and manually copy every single variable. I remember back in the day (when I did VB6 everyday) I came up with a method of cloning objects using the PropertyBag,…
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Using ActiveX PropertyBags from C#

I have created a .NET user control with an ActiveX interface. It works well. Now, I want to be able to read and write from the property bag for the ActiveX interface. How would I do this?
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Property bag for C# class

Accessing c# class properties like javascript language would make life a lot easier. How we can do it in C#? For example: someObject["Property"]="simple string"; Console.WriteLine(someObject["FirstName"]);
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EF Core - Navigations and Property Bag

EF Core support Navigations on Property Bag Entity or Navigation on Entity that points to a Property Bag Entity? Having this class public class PropertyBagEntityDetail { public string StringProperty { get; set; } public Dictionary
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NancyFx DynamicDictionary

I am trying to understand the DynamicDictionary in NancyFX, it looks pretty cool. Does anyone know of a blog post or similar, that goes through the internals of it? I need a propertybag to pass around objects, that I don't know the content of…
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Converting VB6 PropertyBag in .NET

For certain file operations we use VB6's PropertyBag object to convert various items to a bytearray via the Content property. We then save the bytearray as part of a binary file. Later when we load the file we read back the file, read in the…
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Using c#, how to extract propertybags created in vb6 sent via MSMQ

I have a legacy application written in vb6 which produces MSMQ messages. The body of these MSMQ messages contain PropertyBags. My question is: how can I, using C#, retrieve the content of these messages created in vb6, containing propertybags and…
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Remove incompatible spaces from propertybag to solve error when saving form with ActiveX control

I am looking for a way to have VB6 edit a controls' propertybag right before or while the Form is being saved.. We're using an activeX control (AxisMediaControl) that seemingly uses Spaces in it's propertybag names which throws an error when trying…
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What is the equivalent in VB.Net for saving settings in a VB6 PropertyBag?

I am migrating an application from vb6 to vb.net. The application has some checkboxes and dropdowns whose values we can store in a file. For this it uses propertybag writeproperties to return a variant which is then written to a file by file…
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Getting data from a VB6 PropertyBag stored in an Access Database

I have a legacy system I'm porting from VB 6 to C# and am at the stage where I am grabbing data from the old application's database which is in Access and porting it over to the new database in Sql Server. Several fields in the access database are…
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VB and C++ ActiveX control persist its information in different way, how can I implement C++ ActiveX control to replace VB ActiveX?

Background There was an old ActiveX control created by VB. I added this ActiveX control to my Excel workbook and set some properties. These properties were saved when the book was saved. Specifically, they were saved in UserControl_WriteProperties…
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PowerShell - SCOM PropertyBag, How to check if already added?

I want to add values to a PropertyBag. How is it possible to check if the value is already in the PropertyBag? I know one can use an array, list, etc. But how can I use the $bag/$api object to do this check? $api = New-Object -comObject…
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How to persist an IPropertyBag to disk

I've successfully obtained an IPropertyBag for the view state of a folder. I obtained it using SHGetViewStatePropertyBag, and I've confirmed that the bag is valid by checking some property values. What I'd like to do now is persist the property bag…
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