Category Archives: powershell

Writing Re-usable Scripts with PowerShell

Posted on March 16, 2009 by James Kovacs

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 … Continue reading →

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PowerShell, Processes, and Piping

Posted on February 8, 2009 by James Kovacs

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 … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with PowerShell – Developer Edition

Posted on February 1, 2009 by James Kovacs

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 … Continue reading →

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Introducing psake

Posted on June 27, 2008 by James Kovacs

  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 … Continue reading →

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