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PS> Dir –A D The Screencast

I decided to experiment with a screencast.  This is my first and I have no idea what I’m doing so please forgive me if it sucks.  I’d like to know whether you find this format useful or not and then specific feedback about how to make the screencast better (e.g. I recorded it at 1024x768  - is that good or too large?). In my...

Extending and/or Modifing Commands with Proxies

There are so many powerful features in V2, it is hard to know where to begin.  This one is going to blow to top of your head off when you understand what it enables you to do. In this blog, I talk about Proxy Cmdlets which is the ability for one Cmdlet to call another.  You could always do this but to do it right has always been very...

Fun with Script Cmdlets

  Script Cmdlets are one of the coolest things about the newer version of PowerShell.  A Script cmdlet allows you to use all of the variety of cmdlet parameter sets inside of PowerShell functions. Since Script Cmdlets are PowerShell functions, and the PowerShell engine prefers to run functions rather than commands, you can use ...