Pump up your PowerShell with ISESteroids

I’ve mentioned before that although there are several free PowerShell development environments, I always seem to come back to using the ISE. With each release, the ISE becomes more stable and functional. With the other tools, I always seem to bump up against bugs that keep me from enjoying the many features they provide. I …

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The PowerShell Bug That Wasn’t, and More Package Management

Have you ever tracked down a bug, been confident that you had found the root of your problems, only to realize shortly afterwords that you missed it completely? What I posted yesterday as a bug in PowerShell (having to do with recursive functions, dot-sourcing, and parameters) seemed during my debugging session to clearly be a …

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Package Management and a PowerShell Bug

UPDATE: I have worked out how the behavior described at the end of this post is not a bug, but in fact just PowerShell doing what it’s told. Don’t have time to explain right now, but I’ll write something up later today. I also worked out how to “fix” the behavior. For a long time …

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SQL PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) 2.0 Released

The first module-based release of the SQL PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) was released recently on CodePlex.  It features very handy wrappers for most of the SMO objects used to manipulate SQL Server metadata, SSIS packages, Replication, and (new in the 2.0 release) an ADO.NET module which I wrote based on the code in this post.  There’s …

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PowerShell Tools and Books That I Use

Tools I Use (note…these are all free!): PowerGUI Script Editor (I haven’t ever gotten the hang of PowerGUI itself) Powershell Community Extensions 1.2  (PSCX) PowerTab SQL PowerShell Extensions 1.61 (SQLPSX) PrimalForms Community Edition Books: PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette Professional Windows PowerShell Programming: Snapins, Cmdlets, Hosts and Providers by  Arul Kumaravel et. al. Mastering …

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