Monthly Archives: October 2013

PowerShell 4.0 Now Available

Posted on October 25, 2013 by rkeithhill

You can get PowerShell 4.0 for down level operating systems now via the WMF 4.0 download.  NOTE: Be sure you have .NET 4.5 installed *before* you install WMF 4.0.  For various reasons, the WMF 4.0 installer doesn’t alert you to … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Tidbit: Capturing a ScreenShot with PowerShell

Posted on October 20, 2013 by rkeithhill

This is a crude approach but works for capturing the main window of an application who’s process object you can find –typically via Get-Process.  If you run this script from PowerShell.exe or PowerShell_ISE.exe you will capture a screen shot of … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, PowerShell 4.0 | 4 Comments

PSReadLine: A Better Line Editing Experience for the PowerShell Console

Posted on October 18, 2013 by rkeithhill

When Windows PowerShell 3.0 shipped, the team created an extensibility mechanism to allow a third party to “take over” the line editing experience.  That hook is a function called PSConsoleHostReadline that PowerShell will call – if it exists – to … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, PowerShell 4.0 | 16 Comments

PowerShell Community Extensions 3.1.0 Released

Posted on October 17, 2013 by rkeithhill

We released a minor update to PSCX that adds support for Windows PowerShell 4.0 in addition to its support for PowerShell 3.0.  You can grab the updated bits for your shiny new Windows 8.1 or WMF 4.0 install here.

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