First matching record using XPATH query

In order to select first matching record found using XPATH query I used

(//div[@class='container']//h1[@class='page-header'])[1]   instead of //div[@class='container']//h1[@class='page-header'][1]

Web Request using PowerShell and Parse JSON response as PowerShell object

To send web request and read JSON response using PowerShell I used following commands

$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://myserver.com" -Method Get -Headers @{"apikey"="toekn"}
$responseAsPSObject = $response.Content | ConvertFrom-Json
$myValue = $responseAsPSObject.Value."mykey"
Write-Host "$myValue"

Stop IIS Apppool only when it is Started using appcmd

In order to stop IIS apppool using appcmd only when apppool is started I used following command

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list apppool /name:MyAppPoolName /state:Started /xml | %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd stop apppool /in

Robocopy exit code 0

In order Robocopy to exit code 0, I used following

(robocopy C:\Source D:\Destionation /e /move /np /njh /njs) ^& IF %ERRORLEVEL% LEQ 4 exit /B 0

Get text from the textbox using Selenium 2.0

In order to get text from the textbox using Selenium 2.0 I used following

String myText = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='myTextBox']")).GetAttribute("value");

Get parameter and enviornment variable in Jenkins 2.0 pipeline job's Groovy script

In order to get Pipeline job parameter (defined by user) in the Groovy script I used following

${ENV:environment}

while to get enviornment variables to the Pipeline job I used following

$env.BUILD_NUMBER

Allow HTML report containing inline scripts and styles in Jenkins

In Order Jenkins to display HTML reports which uses JS and CSS, I executed following command from Manage Jenkins => Scripe Console

System.setProperty("hudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.CSP","sandbox allow-scripts allow-same-origin; default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline';")

Find all NUnit test assemblies recursively and run them using PowerShell

In order to grab all unit tests assemblies recursively within folder and run them using NUnit I used following PowerShell script. Here I am filtering assemblies found in obj folder.

$nunit = "C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.6.4\bin\nunit-console.exe"

$assemblies = ""

$items = Get-ChildItem  -Path .\Test  -Filter *UnitTests.dll -Recurse | Where {$_.FullName -notlike "*\obj\*"} 

foreach ($item in $items)

{

$assemblies = $assemblies + " " + $item.FullName  

}

$nunitcmd = """C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.6.4\bin\nunit-console.exe"" $assemblies /nologo /xml=c:\dump.xml"

$nunitcmd

cmd /c $nunitcmd

Execute MS SQL commands from PowerShell

In order to execute MS SQL commands from PowerShell I used following script.

$sqlquery=@"
USE [DBName]
GO
select * from table
"@

Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance "ServerName" -Query $sqlquery -Verbose

Get Substring from nAnt property

In order to get sub-string of the nAnt property, to be used in xmlpoke for nAnt I used following statement. Besides the sub-string the following statement also returns the upper case of the string. Here GIT.Commit is the nAnt property.

<xmlpoke file="my.config" xpath="//UI//application//@version" value="${Version}.${string::substring(string::to-upper(GIT.Commit),0,5)}" />

Exit Jenkins

In order to shutdown Jenkins and all ports associated with it's process on server I used following URL

http://jenkins-server-url/exit

C:\Progra~2 for C:\Program Files (x86)

Dont want to use  in your tools because there is space between Program and Files. Then use C:\Progra~2 which maps to C:\Program Files (x86). And yes if you use C:\Progra~1 it maps to C:\Program Files

Get date, add minutes and format it in PowerShell

In order to get current date and add minutes to it and format it I used following command in PowerShell

(get-date).AddMinutes(10).ToString("dd/MMMM/yyyy HH:mm")

Set control's colour pragmatically in C#

In order to set control's colour pragmatically, I used following syntax in C#

btnSearch.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(0x444444);

Check for string if it contains positive integer in C#

In order to check if strings is positive integer I used following check in C#

        String maxRecords;

        if (maxRecords == "" || !maxRecords.All(Char.IsDigit))
        {
               // Logic to implement when string contains no valid postive integer.
        }

Wrap text for the particular column of GridView

In order to wrap particular column of GridView of ASP.NET I used following

    protected void GridViewLog_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Row.Cells[7].Attributes.Add("style", "word-break:break-all;word-wrap:normal");
    }

Here column 7 of the GridView gets text wrapped.

Close Browser using C#

In Order to Kill (close) all Internet Explorer browser launched, I used following C# code

            Process[] localByName = Process.GetProcessesByName("iexplore");

            foreach (Process item in localByName)
            {
                try
                {
                    item.Kill();
                }
                catch
                {

                }
            }

CruiseControl Scheduled Trigger

In order to schedule CruiseControl build at specific time every day, I used following trigger in the project block

<triggers>
<scheduleTrigger time="22:00" buildCondition="ForceBuild" />
    </triggers>

Start and Stop IIS Website using PowerShell

In Order to stop and start website using PowerShell script I used following command

Import-Module WebAdministration

Stop-WebSite -Name 'Maintenance'

Start-Sleep -s 5

Start-WebSite -Name 'Maintenance'

Show stack trace in NUnit report in CruiseControl Dashboard

In order to have stack train in CruiseControl NUnit webdashboard report, I have added <xsl:value-of select="./failure/stack-trace"/> in webdashboard\xsl\nunitv2.xsl file. Here is the snippet

        <xsl:if test="@success != 'True' ">
      <tr bgcolor="#FF9900"><td colspan="3"><xsl:value-of select="./failure/message"/><br></br><br></br><xsl:value-of select="./failure/stack-trace"/></td></tr>
</xsl:if>