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Tied Variables in PowerShell

March 26, 2009 Mar 26, 2009 03/26/09
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With Add-Type and $executioncontext you can add special varibles that have tied values. I made $random, and $now add-type @"using System;using System.Management.Automation;public class RandomVariable : PSVariable{Random r;public RandomVariable ()  : base("Random", 0, ScopedItemOptions.ReadOnly | ScopedItemOptions.AllScope)  {r = new...

How To Write a Console Application in PowerShell with Add-Type

January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09
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Windows PowerShell CTP3 has a lot of very cool things.  CTP2 introduced the Add-Type cmdlet, which allowed you to dynamically compile C# in PowerShell.  It was actually possible to use the CompilerParameters to Add-Type to make a console application, but it wasn't particularly easy.  In CTP3, we've made this a lot easier to do...

V2: Custom Enums

June 3, 2008 Jun 3, 2008 06/3/08
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Once again MOW proves what a clever guy he is.  Check out his blog entry PowerShell V2 CTP2: making Custom Enums using Add-Type. He shows how you can make your own enums using a very simple function he wrote (Add-Enum) which leverages our new Add-Type cmdlet.  Wonderful stuff. Add-Type is one of those huge game-changing features that...

Show-PowerShell / Hide-PowerShell

June 2, 2008 Jun 2, 2008 06/2/08
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During the Week of WPF, someone requested an example of how to minimize the PowerShell window. Here's a quick module to make it happen.  Copy/paste the code below into Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Packages\PowerShell\PowerShell.psm1 $script:showWindowAsync = Add-Type –memberDefinition @” [DllImport("user32.dll&...

WPF & PowerShell – Part 1 ( Hello World & Welcome to the Week of WPF )

May 22, 2008 May 22, 2008 05/22/08
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Welcome to the Week of WPF.  During the next 7 days, I’ll help show you how you can use WPF and PowerShell together. PowerShell could always script almost everything in .NET, but, prior to the recent CTP2 you could not script Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in PowerShell. Now you can script everything that WPF can do within ...