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PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 10 Release

September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20
Sydney Smith
In this blog post we are excited to share: PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview Updates PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 10 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This blog post will cover all of the feature updates since we last published a blog post ( preview 6). These versions include completed functionality for updating PSResources, ...

PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1

July 28, 2020 Jul 28, 2020 07/28/20
Sydney Smith
PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This minor update fixes a few user-reported bugs and introduces a new rule (which is disabled by default) for avoiding using double quotes for constant strings. To install this version of the module, open any PowerShell console and run:  New Rule ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 6 Release

July 7, 2020 Jul 7, 2020 07/7/20
Sydney Smith
Since our last blog post we have released two preview versions (previews 4 and 6) of the PowerShellGet 3.0 module. These releases have introduced publish functionality, repository wildcard search, and fixed error handling when a repository is not accessible in Find-PSResource. Note that preview 5 was unlisted due to a packaging error ...

Native Commands in PowerShell – A New Approach

June 22, 2020 Jun 22, 2020 06/22/20
Jim Truher
In this two part blog post I'm going to investigate how PowerShell can take better advantage of native executables. In the first post, I'm going to discuss a few of the ways that PowerShell can better incorporate native executables into our object oriented world and how we can use these tools to better fit into our model of more discrete ...

Resolving PowerShell Module Assembly Dependency Conflicts

June 16, 2020 Jun 16, 2020 06/16/20
Robert Holt
When writing a PowerShell module, especially a binary module (i.e. one written in a language like C# and loaded into PowerShell as an assembly/DLL), it's natural to take dependencies on other packages or libraries to provide functionality. Taking dependencies on other libraries is usually desirable for code reuse. However, PowerShell always...

PowerShell Team May 2020 Update

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20
Steve Lee
Previously, I published a blog on our investments plans during the PowerShell 7.1 release timeframe. We've made progress across many of those investments with more work ahead of us. PowerShell 7.1 preview 3 We are now able to ship simultaneously with each new .NET 5 preview release! This means that you can start leveraging new ...