PowerShell on its own is a very powerful working command line interface (CLI). Yet as with any other working environment, it has to be setup correctly to allow you to work at your best.
1) To have the chance to meet not only the team that have developed PowerShell (Bruce / Kenneth / Jason), but the MVP’s that keep the PowerShell community alive and moving forward on a daily basis (Dimitry, Shay, Kirk, James, Richard, Ravi, Tobias, Marco, Jeffrey, Thomas, Brandon, James) and all the other delegates that made #TEC2011 an. SAPIEN Technologies PowerShell Studio: 'Keep it up guys, during the years I have seen the product and getting better with each release. You really made my job as a dev much much easier!' One of the most anticipated releases in the Powershell community this year is the new version of PrimalForms that is due to be released early in 2011. If you have ever needed to create a GUI front-end for a PowerShell script you have definitely seen or tried PrimalForms or the free PrimalForms community edition.
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First, we design a GUI form using SAPIEN’s PrimalForms Community Edition. Let us call this Process Manager. The design is quite simple. We place a DataGrid control and three buttons, each with some custom text representing the action. When loaded, this form will list the running processes and let us stop a selected process or refresh the. Learn about the latest trends in Visual Studio. Read tutorials, posts, and insights from top Visual Studio experts and developers for free. Add a reference for Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel (right click references then Add Reference) You need to use the reference in your code to access the methods. Using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel; //use the reference in your code These are the methods I have created in order to read cell values in excel, you may use it for free.
One part of that setup, is having the correct software tool-kit at your disposal. This then ensures that you have all of the tools required to “Get the Job done!”
Best of all, none of the software listed costs a penny, these applications are either offered Licence Free or are Open Source.
The PowerShell Desktop Toolkit :- Windows Applications
PowerGUI – www.PowerGui.org PowerGUI is an application in 2 parts, the PowerGUI Admin Console and the PowerGUI Script Editor. Its basic form is offered free to the PowerShell Community from Quest Software. For next few planned posts, I will be focusing on the capabilities of the PowerGUI Script Editor only. If there is 1 tool that will make you a better PowerShell script writer – PowerGUI is it.
PrimalForms Community Edition – http://downloads.sapien.com (Registration is required) Writing a GUI for your PowerShell scripts, is sometimes not only desired, it is a requirement. PrimalForms community edition supplied by Sapien, helps you by providing a clean and simple interface to create that desired front end or form.
PowerShell Help Community Edition – http://downloads.sapien.com (Registration is required) Sapien deliver a comprehensive PowerShell v2 help application. The great thing with this application is that it allows you to search, index and add notes / snippets of code to any of the official help topics.
WinMerge Portable – http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/winmerge_portable When you work with any kind of scripting or programming language, there comes a time whereby you need to compare 2 files (Normally Production & Development) to understand the differences to debug. WinMerge is an open source application, and IMO is the leader in its field.
Console Portable – http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/console_portable Console Portable is the latest addition to my software toolkit, and WOW what a find. When you run multiple PowerShell instances, they can become hard to manage. With a little bit of intelligent configuration, Console Portable helps you so that you never get confused with the amount of open PowerShell sessions.
7-Zip – http://www.7-zip.org For free zip functionality, this is the essential application to have.
The PowerShell Desktop Toolkit :- Extensions
Quest AD Management Shell – http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx Another free offering from Quest Software. If your work involves Active Directory. These cmdlet extensions to PowerShell are essential.
PowerShellPack – http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack In reality, this is the 1st service pack for PowerShell. Download and install it.
PowerShell Community Extensions –http://pscx.codeplex.com I always look upon PSCX as the extensions that should have been released in V1. It is wealth of extra functionality. Download and install it, at some point you will need it.
PowerShell 7ZBackup – http://7zbackup.codeplex.com (Script) This cannot be stressed enough – Backup your scripted work. Whether at the start of everyday or a scheduled task, this extension script allows you to control the backup process for your script directory.
PSTerminalServices – http://psterminalservices.codeplex.com If you have multiple Terminal Servers in your environment, this module provides the extra functionality required to manage it with ease.
PSRemoteRegistry – http://psremoteregistry.codeplex.com Working with the registry is essential in the Windows administration world. This module makes it a good bit simpler.
PowerShell Proxy Functions (Beta) – http://pspx.codeplex.com I only learned of this extension at #TEC2011 – however the ability of extending native and non-native cmdlets, with a proxy function. Solves a lot of my daily issues.
To continue on from this, the first post on the PowerShell Desktop Toolkit. I will create a post on each of the applications that are listed above. These posts will cover installation quirks / gotcha’s and best practice configurations, and should be on-line over the coming days.
Happy Scripting
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EDIT :- Contained within Windows 7 & Windows 8, there is an integrated PowerShell Scripting Environment (ISE). When I first began working with PowerShell, this was not available & since I have found my script editor of choice (as listed above). I have not yet explored the differences between the two; this I think will be the content of another post ? .