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Automating the world one-liner at a time…

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PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment

December 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008 12/31/08
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Let me combine a couple of things.  1) When I posted my PowerShell_ISE profile, I included a function Goto-Line that is now builtin to the ISE so I reposted the blog with this function commented out. I commented it out instead of deleting it because I wanted to provide an example of how to do it. 2) Vivek Sharma left a comment asked ...

My Powershell_ISE Profile Part 2

December 30, 2008 Dec 30, 2008 12/30/08
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I messed up. First let me remind you that what you have are CTP bits and that CTP bits are subject to change.  It turns out that we are tweaking the PowerShell_ISE object model and that the profile I posted does not work with CTP3.  I’m sorry for that screw up. You can use the amazing PowerShell_ISE to fix this problem.  All...

My PowerShell_ISE Profile

December 29, 2008 Dec 29, 2008 12/29/08
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[UDPATE - the original post had a script which did not work with CTP3 so I've replaced it with the correct version.  Apologizes for the screw up. I've updated the attached file as well. - jps]  I thought I would share my PowerShell_ISE profile with you.  I haven't done anything to clean this up or document it which I ...

Experiment with PowerShell V1 Without Installing It

December 24, 2008 Dec 24, 2008 12/24/08
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If you are reading this, you probably already use PowerShell but you might know someone that has resisted installing it and trying it out.  Thomas Lee posted a blog HERE with a pointer to a Virtual PowerShell lab on TechNet. This allows you to Terminal Serve into a hosted virtual machine and kick the tires. In other words you get to run ...

PowerShell V2 – External MAML Help

December 24, 2008 Dec 24, 2008 12/24/08
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As you’ve probably picked up by now – Advanced Functions are super important. We've been showing a bunch of scripts that have embedded help using comments and dot-tags. Let me take a second and drill into this. We believe that PS will be used in a wide range of; scenarios: simple one liners; personal ad hoc scripts; scripts you share ...

PowerShell v2 Pipelining in 73 (make that 53) Characters

December 24, 2008 Dec 24, 2008 12/24/08
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I started using Twitter and saw a request from Thomas Lee for help about pipelining in CTP3.  The thing about Twitter is that the messages have to be tiny so I wasn’t sure I could answer using it.  It turns out I can solve this problem AND give a usage example in 73 characters.  Here goes: PS> function t{param([Parameter(...

Faces From The PowerShell Community

November 9, 2008 Nov 9, 2008 11/9/08
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Jonathan Medd (of the Get-Scripting Podcast) held a PowerShell Panel discussion at TechEd EMEA where he asked various members of the PowerShell community questions.  I had a blast participating in this.  The group consisted of: Jonathan Medd – Get-Scripting Podcaster and winner of the Quest PowerPack contest Ben Pearce – ...