http://karlprosser.com/coder invoke-intelligence | where { $_.necessary } Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:23:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the phenomenal success of PowerShell Plus and subsequent transfer to Idera, PowerShell Analyzer is now 100% free. You can read more and get it from our recently updated website - http://www.shelltools.net . In coming weeks we are going to do some surveys to help decide where we ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/10/02/powershell-analyzer-now-100-free/ Todays Blog entry is going to cover the HOW of how I put together my demos of Portable PowerShell. Tomorrow I'll move back to clearly defining what I'd like to see from Microsoft. But before I get to the full details a little background: Background So what's stopping ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/19/portable-powershell-part-2-roll-your-own-plus-a-challenge/ So I've loved portable apps from time memorial and have valued making my own apps as portable as possible - XCOPY friendly. I've valued this over some fancy installer. But what about PowerShell? Why can't PowerShell be portable. Its the sort of tool that begs to be portable. Admins want ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/17/portable-powershell-v1-and-v2-side-by-side-even-on-server-core/ Given the context on the last few posts. I've made a simple helper method in C# that can take a simple powershell hashtable and create a PSCustomObject based on it. Here is an example of how you can call it. [snapinini.newobjecthelper]::newObjectFast(@{name="karl";age=31;now ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/15/fast-new-pscustomobject/ Based on the performance testing and work being done by myself , mow , Brandon Shell and others the question has come up what is the quickest way to generate a PSCustomObject, whether in script , on in C#, and how do you even do it in C#? Some ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/12/generating-a-propertybag-aka-pscustomobject-in-c/ I've spend a lot of time in the past looking at the performance of PowerShell but have never gotten around to blogging about it. However it has become quite a hot button among MVPs and others in recent days and we've been busy testing and comparing the speeds different techniques ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/12/getting-serious-about-performance-in-powershell/ One thing that has bothered me about true cmdlets in contrast scripts is that they lived in SnapIns and couldn't be deployed with xcopy as scripts can because SnapIns required Registration/Installation. I build my own way to deal with this need some time ago, and thought that I'd start a ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/07/snapinini-lite-portable-snapins-with-no-need-of-registrationinstallation-2/ One thing that has bothered me about true cmdlets in contrast scripts is that they lived in SnapIns and couldn't be deployed with xcopy as scripts can because SnapIns required Registration/Installation. I build my own way to deal with this need some time ago, and thought that I'd start a ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/07/snapinini-lite-portable-snapins-with-no-need-of-registrationinstallation/ Many people recently have asked how to determine programatically what version of PowerShell their script is running in. Well in version two there is a $psversiontable variable, but this sadly isn't in V1. All is not lost though, as you can write a simple function to return a version object ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/04/determining-what-version-of-powershell-your-script-is-running-in/ Our 3rd generation PowerShell Host and Development Environment - PowerShell Plus has reached 1.0! We are doing away with the pretense of RC1, RTM etc when its not like we are releasing anything to a manufacturer to print a million CDs as we simply just release it to our web ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/03/06/powershell-plus-10-soft-launch/ Our tools PowerShell Analyzer and PowerShell Plus have been downloaded over 140,000 times. YAY. We are keen to see when it goes over 150,000 as we will soon release PowerShell Plus 1.0 as start implementing some real marketing rather than just word of mouth. http://www.powershell.com -Karl http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/02/26/140000-downloads/ We are interested in people testing the latest PowerShell Plus build as we move closer to our 1.0 release. You can get it here. http://www.powershell.com/downloads/psp1.zip and if you happen across any bugs, we love it if you took a minute to submit them here. Enjoy, Karl ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/02/15/trying-out-the-latest-powershell-plus-build/ We've just recently noticed that Citrix has a workflow studio that sounds eerily like that of Full Armour's http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=1297816 and now i can't find the page about Full Armor Workflow Studio on their website as before. Interesting stuff, Karl http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/02/11/has-citrix-purchased-workflow-studio-from-full-armour/ One of our goals is to bring the most important functionality of PowerShell Analyzer over to PowerShell plus as we consolidate into one product. Here is one example. It looks a little different than in PowerShell Analyzer , but we feel its just as useful, and it has a few ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/02/10/data-view-of-current-pipeline-results-in-powershell-plus/ The other day in the #powershell IRC channel on freenode, a regular wanted to know how to find out the difference in properties between two objects. He had an object with 100 properties and another with about 120 or so and wanted to know which ones were unique in the ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/02/09/find-out-differences-in-properties-between-two-objects/ PowerShell Analyzer 1.0 is finally released. For a week or two we consider this a "soft" launch, just in case there is some major issue that eluded our testing, but we are pretty confident its stable. Additionally, if you have already used your 45 Day trial, we have EXTENDED it another ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2007/12/08/powershell-analyzer-10-and-powershell-plus-beta-available-for-free/ Finally my main blog is back in Business. I had gotten discouraged with my previous web host and abundant comment spam, and just plain being busy. But now with the help of an updated WordPress, new Host and Windows Live Writer all should be good. All my old posts are ... http://karlprosser.com/coder/2007/12/08/karls-back-in-blogland/