Monad provides strong support for existing apps and technology. If you use native cmdline exes, vbscripts, batch files, perl scripts etc to manage and maintain windows, you can pretty much use them the same way from monad as you would from cmd.exe. ...

Did you know that you can access most of the Cmdlet base class APIs through script using the $executioncontext variable? -Jeff Jones

Did you know that you can make a variable automatically propagate to new scopes by using the AllScope option? Normally when you enter a new scope variables are not copied from the parent scope. Instead we do a lookup for the variable when requested...

Did you know that you can put constraints on variables using the same attributes as cmdlet parameters? Unfortunately we had to postpone the language support for this but you can still do it using new-object. MSH > $a = "foo" MSH > $varA = get-variable...

Did you know that you can access the content of a provider using the variable syntax? For instance, you can get and set the contents of a file just by doing the following: MSH > ${c:\temp\foo.txt} = "bar" MSH > ${c:\temp\foo.txt} bar MSH >...

If you’ve ever worked with the Monad APIs then you’ve no doubt seen a type called System.Management.Automation.MshObject. I’m not going to go into all the details of what it is because that would take me more time than I have right now and there are people...

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