Category Archives: PowerShell 4.0

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

The big new feature in Windows PowerShell 4.0 is Desired State Configuration however there are a number of other minor features one of which is a new common parameter called PipelineVariable.  This parameter allows you to store the current pipeline … Continue reading →