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Friday, December 12, 2008 9:59 AM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Scripting the Web (Part 3) (Resolve-Link, Get-WebPageLink)

The first post in this series was learning to crawl. I introduced Get-Web , which allows you to use System.Net.Webclient to download web sites in a variety of ways. The next post was learning to walk. I showed us Get-MarkupTag , which helps coerce parts
Posted by JamesBrundage | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:16 PM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks - Exploring .NET Types with a Get-Type function and Reflection

There's a simple yet powerful function that nearly everyone on the PowerShell team has written a version of.  My version is called Get-Type.  It's only a one-liner, but it's an amazing way to explore .NET and it's also an amazing example of
Posted by JamesBrundage | 4 Comments
Monday, October 20, 2008 1:12 AM

Microcode: Scripting Tricks : Exploring WPF Routed Events with PowerShell

Both WPF and PowerShell are both full of great little touches. One of WPF's nice touches is Routed Events . Routed Events allow you to capture events raised by child controls or parent controls. This can be incredibly useful, because it allows you write
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:44 AM

Microcode: All About Modules (Windows PowerShell CTP2)

In a previous post , I showed you how you can debug Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers in Visual Studio and load them up without using installutil.exe. This very briefly touched on using the command Add-Module, in this case, to load up an assembly
Posted by JamesBrundage | 2 Comments
Saturday, July 26, 2008 9:01 PM

Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Trick - Writing functions that use the pipeline or take arguments

I was cleaning up some scripts for posting when I happened upon this minor trick. I had a function that was using $input, a PowerShell v1 feature that allows you to use pipelined values within a function.  This enables you to do basic pipelining
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