Category Archives: PowerShell 5.0

New Release of PowerShell Extension For Visual Studio Code

Posted on February 9, 2016 by rkeithhill

There’s a new version (0.4.0) of the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code out with some really nice enhancements.  There’s also a new version of Visual Studio Code (0.10.8) out with lots of improvements as well (read about those here).  … Continue reading →

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PSScriptAnalyzer–FxCop for PowerShell script

Posted on July 19, 2015 by rkeithhill

As a C and now C# developer I’ve always liked getting help with my code in the form of either Lint for C or code analysis a.k.a. FxCop for C#.  These tools are great at pointing out real and potential … Continue reading →

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Windows PowerShell V5 Goodies in the April WMF5 Preview

Posted on May 10, 2015 by rkeithhill

It looks like we will get not just the package management features PackageManagement  and PowerShellGet, but the whole of PowerShell V5 downlevel to Windows 7.  This is great news! The big features in V5 are package management, improved DSC and … Continue reading →

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PowerShell V5 New Feature: Protect/Unprotect-CmsMessage

Posted on January 8, 2015 by rkeithhill

Windows PowerShell V5, due out sometime in 2015, sports a number of new features: OneGet, PowerShell Get, enhanced DSC, ConvertFrom-String, support for authoring classes in PowerShell script, Compress/Expand-Archive, support for creating symbolic links, hard links and junctions, etc. One of … Continue reading →

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BlackJack, NamedPipes and PowerShell Classes – Oh My!

Posted on November 1, 2014 by rkeithhill

In my last blog post, I introduced you to using .NET named pipes to implement BlackJack across different PowerShell processes and even across the network.  In this blog post, we will take a look at what it is like to … Continue reading →

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PSCX 3.2.0 Available

Posted on October 24, 2014 by rkeithhill

A new version of the PowerShell Community Extensions was released this morning on CodePlex.  PSCX 3.2.0 is also available on the PowerShell Resource Gallery Preview site which means you can use the new Install-Module command in WMF 5.0 Preview and … Continue reading →

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Windows PowerShell DSC Resource Kit Wave 5–xWindowsOptionalFeature

Posted on July 21, 2014 by rkeithhill

When PowerShell 4.0 shipped, the major new feature was DSC or Desired State Configuration – a very convenient and declarative way to manage the configuration of your Windows servers.  However as a developer whose IT department doesn’t really allow me … Continue reading →

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