Live PowerShell With Karl Prosser

A while back I threw together a few scripts to enhance PowerShell V2 ISE experience that added some PowerShell Analyzer like features . They were a natural fit as ISE (Intergrated Scripting Environment) is like a WPF-based stripped PowerShell Analyzer like with its multiple runspaces, editors, and immediate command area.

The extensibility model of ISE has caught on, and many people have been writing some great scripts adding hotkeys to do every what not you could imagine, so I’ve decided to start a codeplex project with the punny name “PowerShell ISE-Cream” . The Goal of this project is first to gather a huge variety of functionality that various people are willing to share, refactor it into production quality functions, with extensive error handling, and packaged in V2 Modules, and finally incorporate it in a way that users can easily turn on and off different features through a consistent configuration.

Right now however we are just going to gather whatever scraps there are, whether they conflict with each other or not, and anybody passionate about this can join the project, as we sculpt it hopefully into something both useful and beautiful.

Doug Finke has already joined the club with his Expand-Alias and Expand-CurrentAlias functions, and there are quite a few other functions that people i know are willing to share, so it should be good.

We’ll be brainstorming and deciding on a bunch of design issue, you can join the conversation on the first one in this discussion thread.

The PowerScripting Podcast tonight (Thursday 5th Feb 2009) will be talking about ISE. There should be a number of MVPs (including myself) and some PowerShell Team staff calling in. It Should be fun.

-Karl