Category Archives: PowerShell 3.0

Windows PowerShell V3 Language Specification Posted

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

You can download it here.

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PSCX 2.1 and 3.0 Release Candidates Posted

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

Oisin and I have been busy prepping the PowerShell Community Extensions to support Windows PowerShell 3.0.  With this release, we are providing two packages.  There is a Pscx-2.1.0-RC.zip that is xcopy deployable just like PSCX 2.0.  Just remember to unblock … Continue reading →

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PSCX 3.0 Beta Released

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

We’ve just released a beta of the PowerShell Community Extensions 3.0 which targets PowerShell 3.0 specifically.  This new version uses a WiX based installer.  We may look at providing an xcopy deployable ZIP file but we had so many users … Continue reading →

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PowerShell V3 – ObsoleteAttribute

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

PowerShell V3 now supports the ObsoleteAttribute for compiled cmdlets but unfortunately not advanced functions.  This is handy to let your users know that a binary cmdlet will be going away in a future release of your binary module. As we … Continue reading →

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PowerShell V3 Beta–Better NTFS Alternate Data Stream Handling

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

One of the many new features in Windows PowerShell V3 is better support for alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS files.  ADS allows an NTFS file to contain additional data that is not part of the “main” stream i.e. the … Continue reading →

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PowerShell V3 CTP2 Provides Better Argument Passing to EXEs

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Within PowerShell it has always been easy to pass “simple” arguments to an EXE e.g.: C:\PS> ipconfig -all However passing arguments to certain exes can become surprising difficult when their command line parameter syntax is complex i.e. they require quotes … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Windows PowerShell V3 CTP2 Available for Download

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

You can grab the bits from here. If you have V3 CTP1 installed, please uninstall it first or you can get your machine into a bad state. So far my favorite two features new to this drop are both in … Continue reading →

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Windows PowerShell Version 3 Simplified Syntax

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Windows PowerShell version 3 introduces a simplified syntax for the Where-Object and Foreach-Object cmdlets.  The simplified syntax shown below, eliminates the curly braces as well as the need for the special variable $_. C:\PS> Get-Process | Where PM -gt 100MB … Continue reading →

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PSCX 2.1 Beta 1 Available for Download

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

I just uploaded beta 1 for the PowerShell Community Extensions version 2.1.  This beta drop adds better support for Windows PowerShell V3 that is in the Windows 8 Developer Preview.  There are a number of bug fixes in this drop: … Continue reading →

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