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November 2008 - Posts

Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:10 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: More Joy of Hashtables (with Get-HashtableAsObject)

I recently did two different "in depth" posts.  One on The Joy Of Hashtables and another on Select-Object versus Add-Member .  At the end of Select-Object vs Add-Member, I hinted at more convenient ways to write objects that used Script
Posted by JamesBrundage | 2 Comments
Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:01 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: The Joy of using Hashtables with Windows PowerShell

PowerShell is full of nice little touches. While some of these touches are easy to run across, like Get-Command and Get-Help, there are also a lot of little ones that are very small changes that make working with some parts of PowerShell (and .NET) a
Posted by JamesBrundage | 4 Comments
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:30 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Select-Object (Note Properties) vs Add-Member (Script Properties)

As I've said a number of times before, PowerShell's quantum leap forward is something called the Object Pipeline.  It allows you to take the results of one command and easily use them with the next, which means that each command you create becomes
Posted by JamesBrundage | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:34 AM

Microcode: Scripting RSS Feeds with PowerShell and Microsoft.FeedsManager

PowerShell's an amazing glue language.   It can help you bring code from all corners of the earth into one environment, and then you can custom the code to be more to your liking.  While the last several entries of my blog have spent time
Posted by JamesBrundage | 3 Comments
Saturday, November 08, 2008 12:46 AM

Microcode: Exploring More of .NET with Get-Assembly

In a previous post, I introduced a function called Get-Type , which allows you to see all of the types currently loaded by .NET.  What it doesn't do is help you find assemblies, the DLL files containing new types.  So while there might be 19000-odd
Posted by JamesBrundage | 3 Comments
 
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