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January 2006 - Posts

Monday, January 30, 2006 6:27 PM

Minding Path Inputs in a Cmdlet

When I was a Monad neophyte, I was asked to write a Cmdlet taking a file path as a parameter. A big mistake I made was not keeping in mind that in Monad the FileSystem provider was just one of the many providers. (This makes Monad different from many
Posted by Monad Team | 7 Comments
Monday, January 16, 2006 11:30 PM

Adding help for cmdlets in a MshSnapIn

Now that you know how to create an MshSnapIn, you might want to add help content for all those cmdlets that you developed and get them displayed by “get-help” cmdlet. To add help content you must know how a Monad Cmdlet Help file looks. See any of the
Posted by Monad Team | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:50 PM

Single Shell vs Custom Shell

With Monad Beta 3 release, we've introduced the concept of the "single shell". What is a single shell? "One shell to rule them all ... and in the darkness..." (Sorry I can't stop saying that quote everytime I hear "single shell"!) Well rather than having
Posted by Monad Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:51 PM

Ensuring Script Portability with #requires

With the MshSnapIn model in Beta 3, there is no gaurantee that a certain Cmdlet or Provider, apart from those in the default MshSnapIns, is available at any point. There could be a number of reasons. The MshSnapIn may not have been installed. The MshSnapIn
Posted by Monad Team | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:08 AM

Mshsnapin (part 2): developing a mshsnapin.

To develop a mshsnapin, you can use following three simple steps, Create a class derived from MshSnapIn class. Build an assembly to contain the mshsnapin class created in step1 and also other cmdlet/provider classes to be included in the mshsnapin. Install
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:48 PM

Mshsnapin (part 1): usage of mshsnapin commands.

Latest beta3 release of monad added the capability of adding/removing cmdlets and providers in current running session through mshsnapins. Mshsnapin is a logic group of cmdlets and providers can be manipulate as a unit in monad engine. Following commands
Posted by Monad Team | 9 Comments
Thursday, January 05, 2006 5:48 PM

Using Monad for logon scripts

In case you were wondering, yes, you can use Monad for your logon scripts. You can't just assign a .MSH file as a logon script however, since only file types with file associations work as logon scripts. Monad installation doesn't create a file association
Posted by Monad Team | 6 Comments
 
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