Automating the world one-liner at a time…
I was just reading a blog post where they were showing al the SCVVM commands in a list. I was going to refer them to my blog which shows how the display that list of commands in a really nice format. I have no idea where that blog post is so I decided to search… Read more
I tend not to be very big on resolutions but I decided to make an exception this year and then see how it goes going forward. I thought you might find it interesting to see the things that keep me up at night. Let me be absolutely clear about one thing: These are my PERSONAL… Read more
Let me combine a couple of things. 1) When I posted my PowerShell_ISE profile, I included a function Goto-Line that is now builtin to the ISE so I reposted the blog with this function commented out. I commented it out instead of deleting it because I wanted to provide an example of how to do… Read more
I messed up. First let me remind you that what you have are CTP bits and that CTP bits are subject to change. It turns out that we are tweaking the PowerShell_ISE object model and that the profile I posted does not work with CTP3. I’m sorry for that screw up. You can use the… Read more
Available Releases The following releases of Microsoft Windows PowerShell are available for download: Windows Management Framework 3.0 <<– Latest RTM Release! Release Date: 9/4/2012 Windows PowerShell, WinRM, and WMI: Download Center Windows Management Framework Release Date: 10/27/2009 Windows PowerShell, WinRM, and BITS: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151321 Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP3 Release Date: 12/22/2008 Windows PowerShell: Download Center WinRM… Read more
[UDPATE – the original post had a script which did not work with CTP3 so I’ve replaced it with the correct version. Apologizes for the screw up. I’ve updated the attached file as well. – jps] I thought I would share my PowerShell_ISE profile with you. I haven’t done anything to clean this up or document it… Read more
In CTP2, we released the first version of PowerShell_ISE. It was VERY rough and primitive and we came close to deciding to wait to CTP3 to ship it. We decided to go head and ship it in CTP2 because the team got it to critical mass and we wanted to let the world know where… Read more
On my personal blog (Media And Microcode), I’ve been posting a series called "Scripting the Web", which introduced a function called Get-MarkupTag. Get-MarkupTag is a very handy little function that coerces individual tag elements of a web page into HTML, so you can scrape data from a webpage. I’ve updated Get-MarkupTag a tiny bit for… Read more
One of the nifty new CTP3 features is command and parameter meta data on functions. In V1, you had to parse a function yourself to extract the parameters. In CTP2, you could use the tokenizer API to parse the function, but extracting parameters this was is error prone. In CTP3, and in V2, you can… Read more
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the net PowerShell lovers were wondering exactly what they might get Their readers were ready, their minds were aware That more joy of CTP3 would soon be there A cmdlet, a function? What has the PowerShell team done? How about a whole module, to share scripts with… Read more