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Cmdlet Help Editor is now released on CodePlex

September 20, 2011 Sep 20, 2011 09/20/11
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I published the source code for the Cmdlet Help Editor on CodePlex here: http://cmdlethelpeditor.codeplex.com/ . Please feel free to contribute. for more information on the Cmdlet Help Editor, please check out the following post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/09/01/new-and-improved-cmdlet-help-editor-tool.aspx  ...

Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs

April 4, 2011 Apr 4, 2011 04/4/11
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A couple of months ago I had asked the PowerShell MVPs for suggestions on blog topics. Karl Prosser, one of our awesome MVPs, brought up the topic of scaling and queuing background jobs. The scenario is familiar: You have a file containing a bunch of input that you want to process and you don’t want to overburden your computer by ...

Advanced Debugging in PowerShell

July 13, 2009 Jul 13, 2009 07/13/09
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Here is a collection of tips and tricks to debug PowerShell Read UpThere is a 7-part series of “Debugging Monad Scripts” that Jon Newman wrote a few years ago that covers a lot of tips, including error handling, traps, tracing, and covers a lot of V1 stuff. Clean codeThe best route, is to make sure code is clean, and common errors are ...

Adding Custom Cmdlet Help for Providers

May 28, 2009 May 28, 2009 05/28/09
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A new feature of Windows PowerShell 2.0 lets you write custom cmdlet help for Windows PowerShell providers. This blog explains how to do it. (The topic will also be covered in excruciating detail in MSDN, but we don't want you to wait.)   What's a Provider? A Windows PowerShell provider is a C# program that exposes a data store to Windows...

How to Create an Object in PowerShell

March 10, 2009 Mar 10, 2009 03/10/09
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Today someone in Xbox Live Operations (the folks that keep xBox Live alive and well) pinged me with a simple question about PowerShell with a complicated answer: “How do I create a class in PowerShell?” There’s two scenarios I find where people want classes.  The first (and most common) is familiarity: the person wants ...

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...

Explore Your [Environment]

December 13, 2008 Dec 13, 2008 12/13/08
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This topic is a little long but I strongly encourage you to walk through it and master the techniques it illustrates.  I can assure you that you'll will use them a couple thousand times in the next couple of years. .Net provides a wonderful class called System.Environment that tells you all about your environment.  It is well worth ...