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Testing cmdlets with FxCop

March 30, 2010 Mar 30, 2010 03/30/10

PowerShell Team

Windows PowerShell wouldn’t be very useful without all the great cmdlets that actually manage specific technologies.  We want to help cmdlet developers to create high-quality cmdlets.  Today we announce availability of FxCop rules that can be used to verify compliance with some of the Cmdlet Design Guidelines as well as to find ...

“Falling is Learning – Just Focus on Having Fun”

March 9, 2010 Mar 9, 2010 03/9/10

PowerShell Team

Back in the days when our hair was on fire with security issues, we brought in a number of industry experts to educate us on developing secure software.  This resulted in the Security Development Lifecycle which all our products now use.  One of the best talks was a from a guy from the NSA who had a talk that was something along the ...

Fun – Is W7 Too Good?

March 7, 2010 Mar 7, 2010 03/7/10

PowerShell Team

Sean Kearney (aka Ye110beard of Highway to PowersHell fame ) sent me a pointer to a fun video which posits that maybe W7 is TOO good.  Just maybe it is so good that it will put IT Pros out of business.  I think the exact opposite is true - I think PowerShell and the ability script the OS and products allows IT Pros to generate a ton ...