Category Archives: PowerShell 3.0

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.

Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, PowerShell 4.0 | 3 Comments

Calling WinRT Async Methods from Windows PowerShell

Posted on September 30, 2013 by rkeithhill

Windows 8 introduced a new API for modern applications called the Windows Runtime API or WinRT API for short.  One of the hallmarks of this API is that it eschews synchronous methods for any method that could take longer than … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, WinRT | 4 Comments

Windows PowerShell V3 Language Specification Posted

Posted on January 11, 2013 by rkeithhill

You can download it here.

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PSCX 2.1 and 3.0 Release Candidates Posted

Posted on September 15, 2012 by rkeithhill

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 →

Posted in PowerShell 2.0, PowerShell 3.0, PSCX | 3 Comments

PSCX 3.0 Beta Released

Posted on July 26, 2012 by rkeithhill

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 rkeithhill

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 rkeithhill

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 rkeithhill

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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