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Friday, November 24, 2006 6:27 PM

What's up with PSBASE, PSEXTENDED, PSADAPTED, and PSOBJECT?

"Brandon Shell" asked: > I have seen adding psbase to alot of things "fixes" problems... What is this > psbase (thingy) and why do I have to use it? > There are lots of different object & data technologies in the world, each with their own
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Friday, October 20, 2006 4:39 AM

Turning the dial to 11 with Custom TypeConverters

If you are the sort of bloke that likes to turn the dial to 11, you should check out Abhishek's recent blog entry on Custom TypeConverters: http://abhishek225.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!13469C7B7CE6E911!191.entry Much of the power of Windows PowerShell
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Monday, July 31, 2006 11:03 PM

Why do I sometimes get different types?

PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why do I sometimes get different types or different behaviors? PSMDTAG:FAQ: When I pipe a heterogenous set of objects to an cmdlet that expects a homogenous stream - what happens and why? In our newgroup ( Microsoft.public.Windows.PowerShell
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:10 PM

Indirectly Invoking Methods Via Variablenames

PSMDTAG:FAQ: Can I specify a methodname using a variable? e.g. $x.$y() PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why do I get METHOD metadata when I specify a method without providing parentheses? One of the great things about Windows PowerShell is that it is a latebound language
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Saturday, July 08, 2006 4:37 AM

Are ScriptBlock parameters implemented for functions?

PSMDTAG:FAQ: Are ScriptBlock parameters implemented for functions? Not in V1. Functions do not use the same parameter binding mechanism as Cmdlets. This is something we intent to address in a future release. -- Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows PowerShell
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Friday, June 23, 2006 5:02 AM

Flexible pipelining with ScriptBlock Parameters

PSMDTAG:FAQ: How can I pipeline data to a parameter which does not accept pipeline input? PSMDTAG:FAQ: What are ScriptBlock Parameters? One of the foundation concepts of Windows PowerShell is pipelining objects instead of text. What happens is that when
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:25 PM

More - How does PowerShell formatting really work?

<Edited 7/2/2006 with tags and categories> PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why doesn't output expand when I expand the width of the console? PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why doesn't output expand when I use -noElements on GROUP? Consider the example: PS> gps |group company Count
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:15 AM

Programmatic way to get valid string values for a parameter

<WIZARD WARNING> ISVs and Tool vendors may find this important, Advanced users may find this interesting, Casual users may want to skip this. Someone asked me if there was a programmatic way to tell what the legal values for a string parameter to
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Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:35 PM

Invoking PowerShell with complex expressions using Scriptblocks

<WIZARD WARNING> First a reminder: when you are in PowerShell (formerly knows as Monad), you can run anything you want out-of-process using the construct: PowerShell {Scriptblock} The great example of this is PS> #RUN EVERYTHING IN PROCESS PS>
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Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:25 AM

How PowerShell Formatting and Outputting REALLY works

<WIZARD WARNING> Dreeschkind posted a question in the Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting newsgroup about how PowerShell formatting worked with Select. He saw some behavior that he thought was a bug. Here is what he saw: PoSh C:\> gps |
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Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:19 PM

Use of Wildcards in PowerShell Formating

MMS in San Diego was a great conference! I met lots of customers that asked lots of great questions. I was demonstrating PowerShell's WMI support when a customer asked about controlling the output. The problem was that PowerShell was showing all the WMI
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:24 PM

The new TabExpansion feature...

One of the nicest new features in the latest drop of Windows PowerShell is enhanced tab-completion. We now tab-complete properties on variables and parameters on cmdlets in addition to the old filename completion. But that's not the interesting part.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:19 PM

Exposing the Power of .NET in a Admin-friendly way

One of our primary goals for Monad was to: "Expose the power of .NET in an Admin-friendly way" . The challenges of systems administration are large and growing at the same time organizations are under ever more pressure to reduce costs and do more with
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:18 PM

Finding out what determines which properties are displayed

MoW, a Monad newsgroup regular, asked why only the Caption, Name and PeakUsage properties were displayed from the command “get-WMIObject Win32_PageFileUsage” while the output object had a lot more properties. I think it is worth it to explain in details
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:18 PM

Is it safe to use ALIASES in scripts?

In our newsgroup (Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting) , Mark Ayers asked the question: > Shouldn't best practice for scripts be full command name? The answer is YES, NO, and MAYBE. YES - Full names provide the most readable experience for scripts.
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