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Returns url of latest version of BlueJ for Windows
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Get-BlueJ.ps1
# To discover this had to run fiddler and check for updates within the app
# To force bluej through a web proxy had to add this to C:\Program Files\BlueJ\lib\bluej.defs
# bluej.windows.vm.args=-Djavafx.embed.singleThread=true -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=8888
$download = "https://www.bluej.org/download/files/BlueJ-windows-$($ver).msi"
$Updatefeed = Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -uri http://www.bluej.org/version.info
$Updates = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($Updatefeed.Content)
$LatestVersion = $updates.split([Environment]::NewLine)[0]
$ver = $LatestVersion.Replace(".", "")
$url = "https://www.bluej.org/download/files/BlueJ-windows-$($ver).msi"
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