My PowerShell_ISE Profile

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Doug — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:52:27 GMT

Great posts on the ISE. Thanks for letting us stand on your shoulders.

I used the new ISE for debugging how I was using James Brundage's scripts he posted.

Super helpful!

The way you are adding menus to the ISE looks a bit similar how you might do it with Oslo's Intellipad. Are you guys using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) too?

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

PowerShellTeam — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:18:07 GMT

> Are you guys using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) too?

No - MEF wasn't ready in time for us.

jps

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Andy Schneider — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:43:04 GMT

I have several posts some customizations you can do with the ISE using $PsIse at http://get-powershell.com. It really is pretty remarkable what you can do.

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Doug — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:56:18 GMT

I don't have a ToolsMenu.

But I do have a $psISE.CustomMenu I can add Submenus to.

PS C:\> $psISE.CurrentOpenedRunspace

DisplayName : PowerShell 1

StatusText : Running

Prompt : PS C:\>

CommandPane : Microsoft.Windows.PowerShell.Gui.Internal.CommandEditor

Output : Microsoft.Windows.PowerShell.Gui.Internal.OutputEditor

OpenedFiles : {Untitled1.ps1}

CanExecute : False

PS C:\> $psISE.CurrentOpenedRunspace |gm

TypeName: System.Management.Automation.Host.OpenedRunspace

Name MemberType Definition

---- ---------- ----------

PropertyChanged Event System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged(System.Object, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs)

Equals Method System.Boolean Equals(Object obj)

Execute Method System.Void Execute(String script)

GetHashCode Method System.Int32 GetHashCode()

GetType Method System.Type GetType()

ToString Method System.String ToString()

CanExecute Property System.Boolean CanExecute {get;}

CommandPane Property System.Management.Automation.Host.EditorBase CommandPane {get;}

DisplayName Property System.String DisplayName {get;set;}

OpenedFiles Property System.Management.Automation.Host.OpenedFileCollection OpenedFiles {get;}

Output Property System.Management.Automation.Host.EditorBase Output {get;}

Prompt Property System.String Prompt {get;}

StatusText Property System.String StatusText {get;}

Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)

Shay Levy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:28:41 GMT

The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application that enables you

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Aleksandar — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:39:30 GMT

Few things to correct...

As Doug said $psISE.CurrentOpenedRunspace.ToolsMenu.Submenus.Add should be $psise.CustomMenu.Submenus.Add

"Go to Line" (Ctrl+G) is already present as an entry under Edit menu, so it's not possible to add another one under Custom menu.

Also, the attached file is missing Select-Output function.

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:08:35 GMT

20 points for publishing your profile.

70 points for "just doing it" instead of postponing it forever because you hadn't cleaned it up yet!

"As soon as I clean it up" is the number one enemy of code sharing, thanks for not falling victim. :)

Oh, and a bonus 20 points for having cool stuff in there I hadn't thought of yet ;)

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Tommy Williams — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:54:28 GMT

Thanks for posting this. It looks like you're working with a newer version than CTP3 already since you're modifying a Tools Menu rather than the Custom menu. I particularly like the Export-SessionFiles and Import-SessionFiles functions, but then I appreciate seeing Select-Output as well.

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

David Mohundro — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:38:04 GMT

Wow, looks great!

I do have a question, though.

I've been digging through the $psISE.Options and customizing PowerShellISE to have a black background and other color customizations. Is there a way to customize the text caret color?

For example, if you've changed the background color to black, you now can't see the text caret unless you have a way to change its color, too.

Thanks for a great product!

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Vivek Sharma — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:53:18 GMT

Few questions:

-Can indention be changed programmatically?

-How do I turn off the interactive portions of ISE (aka: I want a bare "notepad+" screen where I can simply write scripts). I don't see any options for hiding the interactive bits

-Similar to the last question, any way to hack ISE to hide the icons--great for UI ppl but I don't ever use them as I like to type and use keyboard shortcuts :)

re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

PowerShellTeam — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:10:46 GMT

@vivek

- Indention. Depends what you want to do. Before we had TAB and SHIFT-TAB to indent/un-indent code, we wrote scripts to do the same thing. What we would do is to select the section we want to work on (This is available as $psISE.CurrentOpenedFile.Editor.SelectedText). You can then do whatever you want to that string and then replace the selected text by using: $psISE.CurrentOpenedFile.Editor.InsertText("Replacement-text")

Experiment with that - I think you'll like it.

If you were asking for a way to say something like "When I hit tab, I want it to mean 8 spaces" - we don't have that.

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RE: Turning of interactive portions of the ISE and hiding icons. We are doing a number of changes to the UI layout to increase the amount of visual workspace we provide. We are experimenting with a few ideas so nothing is settled yet.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

Windows Management Partner Architect

Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell

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re: My PowerShell_ISE Profile

Christian — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:26:03 GMT

@Vivek

If you really just want a bare bones notepad+, you can put the script pane on the right (ctrl + shift + s) and drag the splitter bar all the way to the left.

However, I personally like having the interactive part up. You can highlight a part of your script and press F5 and only run that part and the result is displayed in the output window. But granted, this works better on a large wide screen monitor.

thanks

Christian [MSFT]

UX Designer