Follow @juneb_get_help I’ve been playing with the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview and especially with its new class feature. After I create my class, I often create several instances of the class and experiment with them in my session. For example, I created a Wine class and then created several instances of my wine class. I […]
SAPIEN Ignite Conference Pass Award for Women in PowerShell
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., developer of PowerShell Studio and Primal Script, will award a full conference pass for Microsoft Ignite 2015 to a woman in the Windows PowerShell community. SAPIEN encourages other Ignite participants to match this award and support the attendance of technical women at IT and developer conferences. ——- We’ve all been to the technical conferences […]
Displaying Output in a GUI Application
After many years of writing scripts for the Windows PowerShell console, I’m now learning the next level of automation — writing GUI applications that run Windows PowerShell commands. PowerShell Studio forms provide a gentle and well-guided introduction to GUI applications, but it’s still taken me some time to break old habits. I constantly need to […]
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Beyond custom objects: Create a .NET class
In yesterday’s blog post, I used the Select-String cmdlet to capture the table of keywords and references from the about_language_keywords help topic and then used the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet in the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview to convert each row of the table into a custom object (PSCustomObject). The custom object worked quite well. I could search, sort, format, and […]
Get-LanguageKeywords: Using ConvertFrom-String on About Topics
There have been some great blog posts about the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet in the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview. My favorite learning tool is an excellent talk by Windows PowerShell MVP Tobias Weltner about the full range of text parsing options available in Windows PowerShell 3.0 – 5.0. While learning, I had some fun converting my […]
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PowerShell Studio Templates : Get a head start on your scripts
When you open a new script file (.ps1) in PowerShell Studio 2014, you don’t get a blank page, at least by default. Instead, the page begins with a comment block, like this one: <# .NOTES =========================================================================== Created with: SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2014 v4.1.74 Created on: 11/5/2014 4:28 PM Created by: juneb Organization: SAPIEN […]
Removing Objects from Arrays in PowerShell
A member of the PowerShell group on Facebook asked how to delete an object from an array. It’s a simple question, but the answer isn’t very simple at all. It’s one of those beginner questions that has an advanced answer. When I first answered this question in about_Arrays, I didn’t really know much about […]
Update-OneGet: Install OneGet on PS 3.0+
One of the coolest new features in the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview is the OneGet module. Windows PowerShell program manager, Dan Harman, describes OneGet as a “package manager manager,” but for most of us, it represents a simple, repeatable, and reliable way to install, update, and uninstall a variety of available programs from a variety […]
