Keith Hill has been a software developer on Windows since 1992 using C, Objective C, C++ and C#. I am a veteran of many Microsoft PDC’s with eight under my belt (93,96,97,00,03, 05, 08, 10 and BUILD 2011). At the 2003 PDC, I sat in on session about the future of Windows administration and automation. That was the first public peek at Monad and I’ve been hooked on PowerShell ever since.
Keith HillWhen developing software based on .NET it is quite common to strong name your assemblies especially if you’re a library vendor providing your libraries to other people.
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Keith HillThe parameters for a PowerShell command can be quite complex. Some parameters are only valid in certain parameter sets. Parameters have types, may be mandatory or optional, can have aliases and may or may not support pipeline input.
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Keith HillWhen dealing with files under source control it is quite often useful to be able to make a bunch of files readonly or writable in bulk.
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Keith HillWe often deal with XML files whether it is modifying TFS work item templates, C# project files, or our own XML data files.
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Keith HillXML is great for easily storing structured data and is pretty easy to work with in PowerShell. However, sometimes you run across XML that is so poorly formatted you lose out on XML’s human readability.
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Keith HillText files created by PowerShell are little endian Unicode (UTF-16LE) by default. You can see this by inspecting the first couple of bytes of a text file for a BOM i.
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Keith HillScriptBlock Binding to Pipeline Bound Parameters I see many PowerShell snippets on Stack Overflow that look similar to one below:
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Keith HillI started the PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) project to fill in some of the gaps in the set of built-in Windows PowerShell commands.
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Keith HillMicrosoft took the wraps off Windows PowerShell V3 at the BUILD conference today in the broader context of the Windows Management Framework (WMF).
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