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ShellTool’s Portable PowerShell – Description, Survey and Private Beta

What is it? Portable PowerShell is software that allows you to run PowerShell on machines that don’t have PowerShell installed that you can run from a Machine that doesn’t have PowerShell on it, from a USB stick, on a machine that has a different version...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2009 10:21 PM by Karl Prosser

Searching PoshCode repository from your Desktop in Windows 7

A picture says a thousand words Search results from the PowerShell Code Repository right there on your desktop in windows 7 thanks to federated search and Jaykul adding OpenSearch support to PoshCode. YAY So how do you get this. Simply download...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2009 12:49 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, poshcode

Sick of an exception happening to just one item in the pipeline when you don’t care.

How many times have you had something like: get-thousandsofitems | % { do-something $_ } | whatever Only to have some exception happen in do-something and it throws the whole thing. When really you don’t care, you’d rather just be able to know what failed...

Published Fri, Feb 13 2009 9:59 AM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, PS extented

PowerBoots – a beautiful DSL , not to mention useful.

I’ve always liked the fact that I can extend PowerShell, whether its just a little bit of syntax here or there, or a full blown DSL, and end up with something that is still naturally powershelly. Jaykul (Joel Bennet) has really used PowerShell in such...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2009 10:12 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, powerboots

Print-File Function

Here is a simple function that will ask the associated program to print any file you pass in. It can work with a file as a parameter, or multiple files. How well this works, especially with multiple files at a time, depends on the associated application...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2009 9:35 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell

PowerShell ISE-Cream

A while back I threw together a few scripts to enhance PowerShell V2 ISE experience that added some PowerShell Analyzer like features . They were a natural fit as ISE (Intergrated Scripting Environment) is like a WPF-based stripped PowerShell Analyzer...

Published Thu, Feb 05 2009 9:34 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, PSV2

Tobias and Idera make PowerShellPlus 2.1 Beta Public.

Well its been six months or more since our baby PowerShell Plus grew up, left home and moved in with Idera. Well its been progressing nicely, and we are happy to see the vision being fulfilled,nd even expanded, with a successful commercial product. Go...

Published Wed, Feb 04 2009 9:32 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, PSV2, powershell plus

Debugging Realtime by Ear. Adding one more dimension

I am amazed by people who can pick out every single note and chord when listening to music, and others who can totally play by ear. However even the musically inept and tone-deaf of us can detect an odd note, especially if its in a tune we know, but often...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 9:30 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell

PowerSMUG – Syncronize folders on your machine with Smugmug.

In ShellTools most of you were familiar with only Tobias Weltner and Myself, however behind the scenes was a critical cofounder – Eddie Hadjes. Below is a script Eddie wrote a few months back to synchronize data between your local folders and the excellent...

Published Mon, Jan 12 2009 9:30 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell

PowerShell Analyzer Refresh for PSV2 + CTP3 advanced function features.

Though we don’t have intentions to carry developing PowerShell Analyzer much in the future, there are a number of improvements in my personal fork, and we want to make sure that it keeps its shelf life by updating it for PowerShell V2. Surprisingly we...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 9:28 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, PowerShell Analyzer

This is your Admin life. You HAVE to script PowerShell

So i was listening to that Dust Brother’s Tyler Durden song from fight club, and PowerShell lyrics started jumping into my head. We’ll most were fleeting before i could capture them, but i did come up with something at least tacky, and fun to some. No...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2009 9:27 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell

PowerShell Analyzer like execution hotkeys for PS CTP3 ISE.

PowerShell CTP3 ISE - Integrated Scripting environment has inherited many ideas and features from PowerShell analyzer including multiple runspaces,editors, a smaller immediate input area and output pane, however it doesn’t have the output visualizers...

Published Sat, Jan 03 2009 9:26 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, PSV2

PowerShell Analyzer now 100% free.

With the phenomenal success of PowerShell Plus and subsequent transfer to Idera, PowerShell Analyzer is now 100% free. You can read more and get it from our recently updated website - http://www.shelltools.net . In coming weeks we are going to do some...

Published Thu, Oct 02 2008 9:22 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, ShellTools, PowerShell Analyzer

Portable Powershell - Part 2: Roll your own, plus a challenge

Todays Blog entry is going to cover the HOW of how I put together my demos of Portable PowerShell. Tomorrow I'll move back to clearly defining what I'd like to see from Microsoft. But before I get to the full details a little background: Background...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 9:20 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell, bare metal

Portable PowerShell - v1 and v2 side by side - even on Server Core.

18So I've loved portable apps from time memorial and have valued making my own apps as portable as possible - XCOPY friendly. I've valued this over some fancy installer. But what about PowerShell? Why can't PowerShell be portable. Its the...

Published Wed, Jun 18 2008 9:19 PM by Karl Prosser

Filed under: powershell

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ShellTool’s Portable PowerShell – Description, Survey and Private Beta

Searching PoshCode repository from your Desktop in Windows 7

Sick of an exception happening to just one item in the pipeline when you don’t care.

PowerBoots – a beautiful DSL , not to mention useful.

Print-File Function

PowerShell ISE-Cream

Tobias and Idera make PowerShellPlus 2.1 Beta Public.

Debugging Realtime by Ear. Adding one more dimension

PowerSMUG – Syncronize folders on your machine with Smugmug.

PowerShell Analyzer Refresh for PSV2 + CTP3 advanced function features.

This is your Admin life. You HAVE to script PowerShell

PowerShell Analyzer like execution hotkeys for PS CTP3 ISE.

PowerShell Analyzer now 100% free.

Portable Powershell - Part 2: Roll your own, plus a challenge

Portable PowerShell - v1 and v2 side by side - even on Server Core.