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Dynamically loading assemblies in mshsnapins.

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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In Monad, mshsnapins can be installed in a different directory from the Monad executables. At runtime, the Monad engine will load the mshsnapin assembly and its referenced assemblies based on application base information provided during mshsnapin installation. If an mshsnapin itself dynamically loads an assembly through an ...

Exclude, Include, Filter Parameters – How to make sense of these

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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So how come we have three ways to filter a path in most of the core cmdlets such as in the get-item cmdlet.  It is important to understand that exclude, include, and filter offer different levels of filtering.   So let’s give a few examples of how get-item cmdlet works with these parameters individually and then in conjunction...

How to Access or Modify StartUp Items in the Window Registry

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
Some applications launch themselves whenever you start your computer and load Windows.  In most cases, this is the desired behavior.  However in some instances, malicious programs such as spyware, Trojans, worms, viruses load in this manner and hijack your computer. It is important to stay vigilant and periodically monitor your ...

The worlds easiest way to create/install MshSnapins

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
Hopefully you've read the previous entries on how to create MshSnapins to include your own cmdlets/providers without having to create an entire separate executable (custom shell). If you didn't or if you did and you don't feel like writing the extra MshSnapin class to be used by InstallUtil.exe, you're in luck. I wrote a little ditty(script...

Write-Progress

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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Tony has a very cool series of Monad-oriented blog entries at: http://mshforfun.blogspot.com/ .  I was fascinated by this one: http://mshforfun.blogspot.com/2005/12/ncbi-blastn-under-msh-command-line.html  which exposes the NCBI BLAST tool via a command line.  Tony's log explains what this tool does but what I found...

.NET types

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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In response to the recent Days till Xmas post, applepwc asked the question    >  where can I find more ".NET types"?I mean is there a list of ".NET type"  available in monad? Excellent question but there are a number of aspects to it so let's break it down: .NET is a developer platform.  That ...

Monad cmdlet cleanup update

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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As Jeffrey mentioned in an earlier Blog “Finding which parameters are used the most” The Monad team is in the process of cleaning up our cmdlets to promote a more consistent user experience. The following two areas which we are focused on might have impact on you:   Cmdlet Verb names consistency and Parameters naming consistency...

Days till Xmas

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
My daughter loves christmas.  She often asks me, "how long is it till christmas?"  The problem with that is that I'm one of those people that can barely remember what year it is much less the date.  Well, it is one thing to be a flawed person and its another thing to disappoint your daughter.  Monad to the rescue! Here ...

Finding which parameters are used the most

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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We are in the process of cleaning up our Cmdlets and ensuring that they are consistent.  One of the things we want to do is the ensure that we provide Aliases for ParameterNames.  As a general rule, parameternames are not pithy.  That is great for reading scripts but can be a pain during interactive sessions.  You only ...