David Aiken : Powershell

How much do you love PowerShell?

daiken — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:57 GMT

Here is someone who possibly loves Windows PowerShell more than I do.

Check out http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MWWzrp3xkYY.

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Cooking with powerShell

daiken — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:42:49 GMT

Oh My!

I just received a copy of Lee Holmes Windows PowerShell Cookbook. The book is 429 pages of juicy mouth-watering recipes for anything from how to write loops, to accessing remote registry access. There are then 90 pages of reference including Regular expressions and WMI.

A great book. I suggest you purchase several copies (one for work and one for home) from your favorite book retailer.

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Windows Powershell and Windows Mobile SDK?

daiken — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:29:22 GMT

Had the pleasure of demonstrating the Windows Mobile part of DinnerNow to a Windows Mobile PM. During the demo, I loaded up Visual Studio 2008, and started the emulator ready for the mobile app. It turns out you don't need to launch VS to start the emulator, in fact you can do it using the Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity namespace.

Not being able to help myself, I thought - aha, I can script this now with Powershell.

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity")

$dm = new-object Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.DatastoreManager 1033

$plat = $dm.GetPlatforms()

$plat

($plat[5]).getDevices()

$device = ($plat[5]).getDevices()[1]

$device.Connect()

You'll need the Windows Mobile SDK 6 installing, but those few lines of code should get you started.

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Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 3 - The Revenge of the MMC

daiken — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:50:00 GMT

I've just posted the final screencast on hosting Windows PowerShell to Channel 9. In the final part, I show how you can build an administration GUI using MMC, which calls into PowerShell Cmdlets. In the video, I show Get-Service and Stop-Service - but they could have easily been your own Cmdlets.

I'm ramping up some more episodes for the DFO show, in a bid to make it almost weekly. Good luck to me.

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More Hosting PowerShell on Channel9

daiken — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:56:08 GMT

I've just posted the 2nd of 3 screeencasts to channel 9 on hosting Windows PowerShell . This time I show you how to get at the typed base objects returned from an invoke, then how to create a custom host to allow full GUI interaction. Reminder, you can...(read more)

Hosting Windows PowerShell Sample Code

daiken — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:55:00 GMT

Having posted the first of three screencasts to channel 9 on Hosting Windows PowerShell, I thought i would make the code available. (attached) Enjoy THIS POSTING IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES, AND CONFERS NO RIGHTS...(read more)

Building Administration User Interfaces

daiken — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:03:00 GMT

Do you build GUI's for your application administrators? Do you provide a consistent familiar interface? Do you provide scripting capabilities? Sometimes I get mistaken for the Windows PowerShell evangelist. Whilst that is fun, its not my whole story....(read more)

Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Management Console 3.0 Quick Start Labs

daiken — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:58:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce the Hands On Labs that were used in the Windows PowerShell and MMC Confernce in April are now available for download at http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/b/0/9b0238c3-f191-42ed-9cdb-9212995cbe72/PSMMCLabs.msi The labs are...(read more)

Hanselman, Snover, Corillian, PowerShell, Channel 9

daiken — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:41:41 GMT

Jeffrey and Scott talk again about how Corillian has been infested by PowerShell, and how they use it to do some pretty amazing stuff, including a remote runspace! I love the way they can put together a fully working system from a base machine with OS,...(read more)

Love for the VSMMD @ TechEd

daiken — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:38:31 GMT

For me, TechEd 07 is almost over - I've finished my speaking duties, now its just networking, hanging out at the TLC and attending some sessions. (and catching up with emails). Some good news appeared in my mailbox this morning, after our session DEV...(read more)

/n software. Netcmdlets and a PowerShell Sticker

daiken — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:26:37 GMT

Thanks to our friends at N Software - I now have a nice shiney PowerShell sticker on my laptop. N Software have a cool product for Powershell called NetCmdlets - which gives you cool cmdlets such as get-rss, get-http, read-zip. There is a free trial and...(read more)

Scripting XML Configuration Files

daiken — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:49:00 GMT

Those .NET XML Configuration files, you know the ones - web.config - app.config - thingy.exe.config - well i've never been happy with them. First, XML is not very forgiving, miss a bracket or slash and your application does terrible things. Second, when...(read more)

Finding airports with PowerShell and Local.Live

daiken — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:47:00 GMT

So a few weeks back i came across this puzzle in an internal discussion list. There is a comma separated text file at AirportsGDM.txt containing all the airports and the codes, along with the Lang and Long Co-ordinates. The puzzle was to see how few lines of code you needed to write a program that would parse the file, find a specific airport, then display a local.live map displaying the airports location.

Sounded like something that Windows PowerShell should be able to do, in say hmm, i don't know, 1 line....

So first the final script

function Get-AirportMap

    param([string]$aircode)

    get-content D:\dev\airports\AirportsGDM.txt | select-string $aircode |

foreach { $a = $_.Line.substring(0,$_.Line.Length-5).replace(",","~") ; [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("http://local.live.com/default.aspx?V=2&cp=$a&lvl=12")}

This of course assumes you have the text file located in the d:\dev\airports folder.

The command should be fairly straightforward and easy to figure out.

The content of the text file

get-content D:\dev\airports\AirportsGDM.txt

is pipedinto a selection

select-string $aircode

for each result we go and work out the co-ordinates

$a = $_.Line.substring(0,$_.Line.Length-5).replace(",","~")

Then start a new process navigating to the local.live URL

[System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("http://local.live.com/default.aspx?V=2&cp=$a&lvl=12")

Simple. and the results.

get-airportmap LAX

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Windows PowerShell in the Longhorn Server box

daiken — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:23:00 GMT

I know, i know. It was announced 2 days ago at MMS Windows PowerShell will be in the box on Longhorn Server. (I sometimes do things that have nothing to do with Powershell).

Rejoice and be merry.

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David Aiken : Powershell

How much do you love PowerShell?

Cooking with powerShell

Windows Powershell and Windows Mobile SDK?

Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 3 - The Revenge of the MMC

More Hosting PowerShell on Channel9

Hosting Windows PowerShell Sample Code

Building Administration User Interfaces

Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Management Console 3.0 Quick Start Labs

Hanselman, Snover, Corillian, PowerShell, Channel 9

Top 5 PowerShell Questions at TechEd

Love for the VSMMD @ TechEd

/n software. Netcmdlets and a PowerShell Sticker

Scripting XML Configuration Files

Finding airports with PowerShell and Local.Live

Windows PowerShell in the Longhorn Server box