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Creating PowerShell Modules, the easy way. 13 Aug 2013 | 10:09 pm
Today I’m going to show you a new way to build a PowerShell module: I think it’s the fastest, easiest way to turn a few PowerShell script files into a reusable, shareable module. Here’s the “too long...
A new way to zip and unzip in PowerShell 3 and .Net 4.5 11 Jun 2013 | 10:20 am
I’ve got an article coming about WPF 4.5 and what’s new there for ShowUI, but in the meantime I thought I’d share this little nugget I noticed today: System.IO.Compression.FileSystem.ZipFile. You can ...
Long-running background tasks in ShowUI GUIs from PowerShell 7 Jun 2013 | 10:55 am
A lot of the time when you’re writing ShowUI user interfaces in PowerShell, you’re just asking users for inputs, prompting them for choices, or showing them the results of some calculations (whether t...
Get-Help for Modules you don’t have installed 2 Feb 2013 | 04:43 am
If you have you ever wished you could get-help on commands for modules you don’t have installed locally, or are having problems using Save-Help to get module help onto servers that don’t have an inter...
Why I’m not excited about Windows 8 Certified Store Apps 20 Dec 2012 | 02:03 am
It’s come up a few times recently, and I’m frustrated enough that I thought I’d just post this here for reference. The Windows 8 App Certification requirements has one particular requirement that mak...
PowerShell PowerUser Tips: The Hash TabExpansion 20 Oct 2012 | 10:29 am
One of my favorite features in the built-in TabExpansion in PowerShell is one that many (if not most) users are unaware of: the “#” hash mark. In order to test this tip, you’re going to need a comman...
Adventures getting MSBuild, TFS and SQL Server Data Tools to work together 27 Apr 2012 | 05:42 pm
We recently found that our database project at work goes from a 40-minute build and compile to about 20 minutes when we upgrade from the VS2010 (SQL 2008) database projects (with the old .dbproj files...
Get-Command in PowerShell 3 (NOTE: CTP2 Bug causes module loading) 16 Feb 2012 | 08:16 pm
I don’t normally blog about the bugs I find in beta software, but I posted this bug to PowerShell’s Connect and I feel like it got ignored and not voted, so I’m going to try to explain myself better h...
Rich formatting for PowerShell help 28 Jan 2012 | 05:54 pm
[updated] Ok, I just updated this with a new post on PoshCode. I posted the HtmlHelp module to PoshCode for generating HTML web pages based on the help for functions or cmdlets. It basically has one c...
Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium? 5 Jan 2012 | 07:46 pm
This is sort-of a place-holder for a full-length post that I really ought to write about driving web testing from PowerShell using Selenium. I actually have a little module around for doing that with ...
