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PS> Dir –A D The Screencast

January 4, 2009 Jan 4, 2009 01/4/09
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I decided to experiment with a screencast.  This is my first and I have no idea what I’m doing so please forgive me if it sucks.  I’d like to know whether you find this format useful or not and then specific feedback about how to make the screencast better (e.g. I recorded it at 1024x768  - is that good or too large?). In my...

Extending and/or Modifing Commands with Proxies

January 4, 2009 Jan 4, 2009 01/4/09
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There are so many powerful features in V2, it is hard to know where to begin.  This one is going to blow to top of your head off when you understand what it enables you to do. In this blog, I talk about Proxy Cmdlets which is the ability for one Cmdlet to call another.  You could always do this but to do it right has always been very...

Programming PowerShell_ISE

January 4, 2009 Jan 4, 2009 01/4/09
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I recently wrote a blog Powershell_Ise Can Do a Lot More Than You Think where I described the ability to program it to do new stuff.  Karl Prosser has picked up the baton and written some cool scripts programming the PowerShell_ISE to make it do some of the features that he had put into his amazing PowerShell Analyzer.  I encourage ...

Diagnosing Here-Strings With PowerShell_ISE

January 3, 2009 Jan 3, 2009 01/3/09
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James Brundage posted a blog entry How To Write a Console Application in PowerShell with Add-Type which used a here-string.   One user (lcr) copied and pasted the text and got the following error: Unrecognized token in source text. At line:1 char:72 + Add-Type -OutputType ConsoleApplication -OutputAssembly HelloWorld.exe&#...

Get-Verb

January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09
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.cmdletname { font-size:large } .cmdletsynopsis { font-size:medium } .cmdletdescription { font-size:medium } .cmdletparameters { font-size:medium } th { font-size: medium; font-style: italic } table { border: 1 } When I write a PowerShell function, I try to ensure that it follows the ...