James Kovacs » All Tags » PowerShell (RSS)

Browse by Tags

James Kovacs

Sponsors

The Lounge

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

View more

Archives

Advertisement

  • Releasing psake v1.00 & psake v2.00

    A few announcements… First the big one. Many people have been using psake - both the PowerShell 1.0- and 2.0-compatible versions - in production without any significant issues. For that reason, we have released psake v1.00 (compatible with PowerShell 1.0). The only difference between psake v1.00 and...
    Filed under: , ,

  • PowerShell Tip: Providers

    At first glance, PowerShell appears to be yet another command shell with the interesting twist that you pipe objects between commands rather than strings. But there is more to PowerShell than that. One fascinating area is PowerShell Providers. (PowerShell Providers aren’t anything new as they’ve...
    Filed under:

  • psake at VAN Wrap-up

    Last night I gave a presentation on psake and PowerShell to the Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) group . I had a fun time demonstrating how to write a psake build script, examining some psake internals, discussing the current state of the project, and generally making a fool of myself by showing how much of a PowerShell...

  • Confusion about PowerShell Script Signing

    I’ve been having fun writing about my adventures in PowerShell. I would like to thank everyone for their encouragement and feedback. Something that I haven’t explicitly stated – which should go without saying as this is a blog – is that I am not a PowerShell expert. This is one man’s journey learning...
    Filed under:

  • Writing Re-usable Scripts with PowerShell

    Continuing on from last time , I will now talk about writing re-usable scripts in PowerShell. Any command that we have executed at PowerShell command line can be dropped into a script file. I have lots of little PowerShell scripts for common tasks sitting in c:\Utilities\Scripts, which I include in my...
    Filed under:

  • PowerShell, Processes, and Piping

    Last time , I discussed why you as a developer might be interested in PowerShell and gave you some commands to start playing with. I said we’d cover re-usable scripts, but I’m going to delay that until next post as I want to talk more about life in the shell… PowerShell feels a lot like cmd.exe, but...
    Filed under:

  • Getting Started with PowerShell - Developer Edition

    Recently I was on the PowerScripting Podcast hosted by Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz. I had a great time talking about PowerShell from a developer’s perspective and psake , my PowerShell-based build system, in particular. You can find the interview on Episode 56 here . Thanks to Hal and Jonathan for...
    Filed under:

  • Introducing psake

      A build automation tool... now with less XML... psake is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts. psake has a syntax inspired by rake (aka make in Ruby) and bake (aka...
    Filed under: , ,