For the longest time, people have been asking me when they’ll be able to use PowerShell in ASP. It makes perfect sense – PowerShell is a great language that let’s you do amazing things quickly. Sadly, my answer has always been:<\/p>\n
\nAt Microsoft, to ship is to choose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
We are trying to solve the problem of administrating and automating Windows and until we get things like Remoting, Jobs, Eventing, etc done, it would be a breach of our responsibilities to pursue ASP programming no matter how cool and useful it would be. Now let me be clear, I believe ASP programming is SUPER useful to Admins (as well as everyone else). It is just that we need to do first things first.<\/p>\n
So now to the great news: The superstars at NSoftware<\/a> have finally solved this problem and published PowerShellASP<\/a>. Here is their description of it:<\/p>\n
\nPowerShellASP is an ASP-like template language for Web Applications; templates contain a mixture of markup (HTML, XML or whatever you want to generate) and inline PowerShell code. At runtime, templates\/pages are fully translated to PowerShell code and executed as a single unit inside a PowerShell pipeline, with the results sent to the client browser.<\/p>\n
PowerShellASP runs off the ASP.NET platform, implemented as a custom IHttpHandler mapped to *.ps1x files. Because of this, you can mix PowerShellASP pages alongside any ASP.NET application. This provides a great way to leverage PowerShellASP inside your existing applications as needed or you can create complete applications from scratch based only on *.ps1x pages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Are you drooling yet? If not, check out this example:<\/p>\n
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tr><td>ID<\/td><\/tr>
<% get-process | foreach { %>
<tr>
<td><%=$_.ID%><\/td>
<td><%=$_.ProcessName%><\/td>
<\/tr>
<% } %>
<\/table>
<\/body>
<\/html><\/p>\nIs that awesome or what?
Still not drooling? Check this out: it’s FREE!
I told you they were superstars!
Download it and blog about your experiences – I’d love to hear what you think.<\/p>\nBTW: NSoftware<\/a> is also ships NetCmdlets, a rich collection of cmdlets to deal a wide range of protocols including SSH and SNMP. Did you know that you can do remote PowerShell over SSH today? With NetCmdlets you can. Check those out HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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