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PowerShell LINQ: Take-Count and Take-While
The Take pair of functions are very similar to the Skip functions .  The Take expression does essentially the opposite of the Skip functions.  Skip is useful for getting elements further down the pipeline.  Take is used for getting elements Read More...

Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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PowerShell LINQ: Skip-While
Next up in the PowerShell LINQ series is SkipWhile .  This LINQ function takes an enumerable instance and a predicate.  The function will skip the elements in the enumerable while the predicate is true.  The argument to the predicate is Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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Script Blocks and Closures (or lack there of)
Script blocks are a concise way of representing an expression or statement group in Powershell.  It’s the C#/F#/VB lambda equivalent for PowerShell.  One difference between C#/F#/VB lambda expressions and a scriptblock is the lack of lexical Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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Script Blocks and Arguments: Figuring it out for myself … again
Script blocks are a powershell construct for storing an expression or group of statements inside an expression.  It’s the equivalent of a C#/F#/VB Lamba expression.  Recently I needed to use a script block but found I had forgotten how to read Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 4 Comments

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