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 starting up ...
PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files. On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials like this one and many more. If we had the "Save All" option in the ISE, one interes...
Merry Christmas. To celebrate the holiday, here’s a quick Christmas tree written in WPK (the WPF PowerShell Kit). You can get WPK as part of the PowerShellPack (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack). Here’s a screenshot: and Here’s the script: It’s only about 30 lines, but this script has tons of Christmas goodies. ...
Just before the release of Windows 7, the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack was released. Today, it hit 10,000 downloads. It contains 10 useful modules that help you do more with Windows PowerShell. It has modules that can help every IT admin ( like the TaskScheduler module), and modules that can help any .NET developer (like PSCo...
On October 15th I released a large collection of scripts called the PowerShellPack. The PowerShellPack has tons of PowerShell V2 scripts that can be used to do all sorts of fun and practical things. Today, we’ll show how to use a module in the PowerShell Pack to schedule sending a daily automated email with information about the install...
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 caught. To do...
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 Powe...
Here is a collection of differences between the PowerShell_ise.exe and PowerShell.exe, as well as workaroundsand suggestion if you need them (assuming we have them :)) There could be others, but parity with PowerShell is a big thing for the ISE. Cheers,Ibrahim Abdul Rahim[MSFT]
Hi writers and consumers of buggy scripts.This post explains the basics of the Graphical Debugger in the ISE. There’s a lot of good stuff, with some tips and tricks.The debugger support got the cmdlets and user interface. The cmdlets include Enable/Disable/Get/Set/Remove-PsBreakpoint and Get-PsCallStack.The general feel is to place brea...
I just posted a blog about our new File Transfer Cmdlets in which I artfully dodged a difficult question: How do you get the URL to do the file transfer? Sometimes you are going to have it but other times you’ll go to a website and it can be bloody impossible to find the URL that you need to download. That was the case with the ex...
