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I’ve been using PowerShell’s Integrated Scripting Environment ever since it was in beta. Despite being relatively slow to load, it sure beats using Notepad for simple script development/debugging. The colour coding alone makes it even more useful! I love...
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Over the last year I’ve posted functions I’ve written to extend the Windows PowerShell ISE. I have finally pulled everything together into a module I’m calling the ISE Scripting Geek. Download and extract the zip file (below) to your...
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I spend a fair amount of time in the PowerShell ISE. One task that I find myself needing, especially lately, is the ability to print a script file. I’m sure you noticed there is no Print menu choice. So I … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today’s fun involves adding a menu item to the PowerShell ISE to make it easy to sign your scripts. I’m not going to go into the details about getting and installing a code signing certificate. I also assume you only … Continue reading...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script sets an ISE Theme to similar to the old VIM editor. .DESCRIPTION This script sets the key values in $PsIse .Options to values consistent with the VIM editor, beloved by many, particularly...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script resets the ISE to default ‘theme’. .DESCRIPTION This script sets the key values in $PsIse .Options to their default options in $Psise .Options.DefaultOptions. This script...
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PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files. On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials like this one and many more. If we had the "Save...
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I was searching for some information on how to add custom menus to PowerShell ISE. I’d been meaning to play around with this for a while and had some time last night. So I went searching and came across what looked at first sight to be the perfect answer...
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Here is a collection of tips and tricks to debug PowerShell Read Up There is a 7-part series of “ Debugging Monad Scripts ” that Jon Newman wrote a few years ago that covers a lot of tips, including error handling, traps, tracing, and covers a lot of V1 stuff. Clean code The best route, is to make sure...
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There were quite a few name changes in the ISE Object Model from CTP3 to RC Using Update-TypeData, we can achieve some parity between the two We can add aliases to the CTP3 version to make it look like the RC Version For example, <Name>System.Management.Automation.Host.PSGHost</Name> <Members>...
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If you'd like to customize your Windows PowerShell ISE be prepared for some breaking changes in Windows PowerShell ISE that comes with Windows 7 RC (May I call it Windows PowerShell ISE RC?). In Windows PowerShell ISE CTP3 $psISE, custom host variable, has following properties: PS C:\> $psISE...
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Jeffry Snover and many other have used Start-Demo in powershell.exe http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/03/start-demo-help-doing-demos-using-powershell.aspx Continuing the tradition, we now have ISEDemo.psm1 To use it, start ISE and run Import-Module ISEDemo.psm1 #(attached) Start-Demo c...
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ISE has an F1 help feature, where if you press F1 when your caret is over a cmdlet name, context sensitive help opens. Shay Levy has a nice post on F1 help in the ISE here http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/01/31/using-help-in-powershell-ise.aspx He adds “I wanted to mimic...
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Here is a collection of differences between the PowerShell_ise.exe and PowerShell.exe, as well as workarounds and suggestion if you need them (assuming we have them :)) Limited support for interactive console apps, try cmd.exe, then try cmd.exe /k cmd.exe /c dir still works though, and more information...
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There are some limitations on how the ISE interacts with console applications you need to be aware of, for apps like ftp and netsh. First of all, the ISE Runs console apps that don’t require user input just fine. For example, “ping www.microsoft.com” and “cmd /c dir /s” Piping also works fine in the...