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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:52 AM

Image Manipulation in PowerShell

The other week, I showed a Get-ProgID function that I used to help someone at Microsoft Research find a good object to talk to images. A few comments jumped to one of the possible solutions, which is to use the .NET Drawing assembly (which I have to load
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Attachment(s): Image.zip
Friday, March 27, 2009 11:49 PM

Get closure with GetNewClosure

Have you ever created scriptblocks on the fly, say in a foreach loop, and they totally mess up because they all have the same value? This is something sort of advanced, and typically used when you’re proxying an object. The most basic example would be,
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:59 AM

Test-PSCmdlet

Everyone needs to get good with Advanced Functions – this is the easiest path to the best semantics for everyone. In previous posts we’ve shown how you can add a few simple attributes and get a TON of stuff for free. There is a LOT more to advanced functions.
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Friday, January 02, 2009 9:35 PM

Get-Verb

.cmdletname { font-size:large } .cmdletsynopsis { font-size:medium } .cmdletdescription { font-size:medium } .cmdletparameters { font-size:medium } th { font-size: medium; font-style: italic } table { border: 1 } When I write a PowerShell function, I
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Friday, January 02, 2009 5:46 PM

A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions

[1/3/09 Update - the original link to the attachment containing this code was broken but is now fixed. Sorry. jps] It is hard to overstate how important Modules and Advanced Functions are. If you are a PowerShell user - you need to take the time to learn
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Attachment(s): module.zip
Thursday, December 25, 2008 1:53 AM

Get-MarkupTag

On my personal blog ( Media And Microcode ), I've been posting a series called "Scripting the Web", which introduced a function called Get-MarkupTag. Get-MarkupTag is a very handy little function that coerces individual tag elements of a web
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Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:00 AM

Merry Christmas From PowerShell: The CodeDownloader Module

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the net PowerShell lovers were wondering exactly what they might get Their readers were ready, their minds were aware That more joy of CTP3 would soon be there A cmdlet, a function? What has the PowerShell
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Attachment(s): CodeDownloader.zip
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:44 PM

Resolve-ShortcutFile

If you're like me, you've got a browser favorites folder that is full of wonderful PowerShell code snippets. Ideally, it would be great to have a way to bring those favorite snippets into PowerShell so that my favorites folder becomes a code library.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:18 PM

PowerShell v2 Pipelining in 73 (make that 53) Characters

I started using Twitter and saw a request from Thomas Lee for help about pipelining in CTP3. The thing about Twitter is that the messages have to be tiny so I wasn’t sure I could answer using it. It turns out I can solve this problem AND give a usage
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:03 AM

Write-CommandBlogPost

.CmdletName { font-size:large } .CmdletSynopsis { font-size:medium } .CmdletDescription { font-size:medium } .CmdletParameters { font-size:medium } th { font-size: medium; font-style: italic } table { border: 1 } On the PowerShell team, we're big believers
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:29 AM

Dreaming In PowerShell V2 : Lottery Numbers with Get-Random

Tobias Weltner writes a blog called Dreaming In PowerShell, and he recently posted a way to get a list of unique lottery numbers with PowerShell.   Dreaming In PowerShell is a cool blog, and the post is interesting, but it makes an assertion that's
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:56 PM

PowerShell V2: ParameterSets

One of the great benefits of PowerShell V2 Advanced Functions is the ease in which you can support parametersets. ParameterSets are, well, different SETS of valid parameters. For instance you can say: Get-Process -id 0 Get-Process -Name *ss Those are
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:17 PM

More Advanced Functions - Get-Assembly and Get-ExportedType

Tyson Kopczynski has just published a great article Fun with PowerShell 2.0 Eventing! That inspired to to write a script to automatically backup my modules directory. I'm doing a lot of scripting this week and I don't want to lose my work if I make a
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Attachment(s): Get-ExportedType.zip
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:40 AM

Advanced Functions and Test-LeapYear.ps1

Welcome to CTP3! There are just an amazing amount of really important features in V2 but the one I want everyone to start using ASAP is Advanced Functions. In CTP2 we called this cmdlets. We dropped that term in favor of taking the idea of a FUNCTION
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Attachment(s): Test-LeapYear.zip
Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:03 AM

Emit-XML

I was writing a demo yesterday and needed a quick and dirty way to generate some XML so I wrote the function below. This highlights a couple of changes that are coming up in CTP3 that I thought I would preview. 1) The keyword "cmdlet" is going away and
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