I tend not to be very big on resolutions but I decided to make an exception this year and then see how it goes going forward.  I thought you might find it interesting to see the things that keep me up at night.  Let me be absolutely clear about...

Let me combine a couple of things. 1) When I posted my PowerShell_ISE profile, I included a function Goto-Line that is now builtin to the ISE so I reposted the blog with this function commented out. I commented it out instead of deleting it because...

I messed up. First let me remind you that what you have are CTP bits and that CTP bits are subject to change. It turns out that we are tweaking the PowerShell_ISE object model and that the profile I posted does not work with CTP3. I’m sorry for that...

[UDPATE - the original post had a script which did not work with CTP3 so I've replaced it with the correct version. Apologizes for the screw up. I've updated the attached file as well. - jps] I thought I would share my PowerShell_ISE profile with you...

In CTP2, we released the first version of PowerShell_ISE. It was VERY rough and primitive and we came close to deciding to wait to CTP3 to ship it. We decided to go head and ship it in CTP2 because the team got it to critical mass and we wanted to let...

On my personal blog ( Media And Microcode ), I've been posting a series called "Scripting the Web", which introduced a function called Get-MarkupTag. Get-MarkupTag is a very handy little function that coerces individual tag elements of a web...

One of the nifty new CTP3 features is command and parameter meta data on functions. In V1, you had to parse a function yourself to extract the parameters. In CTP2, you could use the tokenizer API to parse the function, but extracting parameters this was...

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the net PowerShell lovers were wondering exactly what they might get Their readers were ready, their minds were aware That more joy of CTP3 would soon be there A cmdlet, a function? What has the PowerShell...

If you're like me, you've got a browser favorites folder that is full of wonderful PowerShell code snippets. Ideally, it would be great to have a way to bring those favorite snippets into PowerShell so that my favorites folder becomes a code library....

I started using Twitter and saw a request from Thomas Lee for help about pipelining in CTP3. The thing about Twitter is that the messages have to be tiny so I wasn’t sure I could answer using it. It turns out I can solve this problem AND give a usage...

As you’ve probably picked up by now – Advanced Functions are super important. We’ve been showing a bunch of scripts that have embedded help using comments and dot-tags. Let me take a second and drill into this. We believe that PS will be used in a...

If you are reading this, you probably already use PowerShell but you might know someone that has resisted installing it and trying it out. Thomas Lee posted a blog HERE with a pointer to a Virtual PowerShell lab on TechNet. This allows you to Terminal...

On the PowerShell team, we're big believers in the Virtuous Cycle. As you learn PowerShell more and more, things should get easier and easier to do. Inline help is a great example of the virtuous cycle, because it allows you to write scripts in such a...

The features discussed in this blog post depend on PowerShell CTP3 release. Details about PowerShell CTP3 can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/12/23/early-christmas-present-from-powershell-team-community-technology-preview-3-ctp3...

Tobias Weltner writes a blog called Dreaming In PowerShell, and he recently posted a way to get a list of unique lottery numbers with PowerShell.   Dreaming In PowerShell is a cool blog, and the post is interesting, but it makes an assertion that...

I write a lot of scripts, and, since I blog some of what I write, my home computer has been running Windows PowerShell CTP2 since it came out. Since CTP3 has a number of changes from CTP2, I've got to update my home script library to work with CTP3. While...

One of the great benefits of PowerShell V2 Advanced Functions is the ease in which you can support parametersets. ParameterSets are, well, different SETS of valid parameters. For instance you can say: Get-Process -id 0 Get-Process -Name *ss Those...

Tyson Kopczynski has just published a great article Fun with PowerShell 2.0 Eventing! That inspired to to write a script to automatically backup my modules directory. I'm doing a lot of scripting this week and I don't want to lose my work if I make a...

Welcome to CTP3! There are just an amazing amount of really important features in V2 but the one I want everyone to start using ASAP is Advanced Functions. In CTP2 we called this cmdlets. We dropped that term in favor of taking the idea of a FUNCTION...

While Santa and co. are getting busy for Christmas, the Windows PowerShell Team is pleased to release the third Community Technology Preview (CTP3) of Windows PowerShell V2! First let us thank you for all your great feedback on CTP1 and CTP2. This...

Last night Bruce Payette and I were interviewed on the PowerScripting Podcast with Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz.  It was a blast!  There were a ton of people connected and were firehosing questions & comments in the Chat window. ...

The other day I showed you how you can use ENUMs.  I showed an example of how you can find all the SPECIALFOLDERs on a system.  Here is a script that I call Mount-SpecialFolders.ps1 which mounts all your special folders as PowerShell drives...

In my latest post Explore your [Environment] I said the following: PS> [System.Environment+SpecialFolder] IsPublic IsSerial Name                                    ...

This topic is a little long but I strongly encourage you to walk through it and master the techniques it illustrates.  I can assure you that you'll will use them a couple thousand times in the next couple of years. .Net provides a wonderful class...

I gave a talk with Ben Pearce during IT Forum in Barcelona this year.  It was the first time I had ever given a talk with Ben as was shocked (and delighted) by his speaking style.  Ben is an awesome presenter.  Full Stop.  That said...