Archive for the ‘Windows PowerShell’ Category
Friday, August 19th, 2016 by Ferdinand Rios
Now that PowerShell is available on the Mac, we thought it would be useful to show how easy it is to setup a Mac terminal session that automatically opens into PowerShell. Figure 1 shows what we mean. [caption id="attachment_12634" align="aligncenter" width="1130"] Figure 1 - PowerShell Terminal Session[/caption] First you need to download the PowerShell macOS package from here (look for the Get PowerShell section in the README.md) and install it using the directions found here . Once PowerShell is installed and running on your system, follow the instructions below to set up your PowerShell terminal Here are the steps to follow: Open Terminal on…
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Tags: Mac, Macintosh, macOS, OS X, powershell, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Bash, General, Howto, PowerShell, Windows PowerShell | 33 Comments »
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 by June Blender
Tested on: PowerShell 2.0+, PowerShell Studio 2016 This step-by-step example shows you how to create a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI app. The app consists of a parent form that gets data from a child form and displays it. When you finish, you'll know how to use the basic multi-form features of PowerShell Studio. For details about how these features work under the covers, see How Do Multi-Form Projects Work? For this task, we assume that you know how to create a single-form PowerShell GUI app or that you've participated in a Thinking in Events hands-on lab. Otherwise, start with…
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Tags: forms, gui, juneb, multi-form, multiple forms, powershell, PowerShell GUI, PowerShell Studio
Posted in Beginners, GUIProgramming, Howto, PowerShell, PowerShell Studio, Windows PowerShell | 26 Comments »
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 by June Alane Reif
Over the years, the articles in this blog have grown extensively. There's a lot of valuable information in here, but it's become hard to find because it's mixed in with various tour announcements, special offers, conference recaps, and the like. So, we have decided to pull the important articles and place them—along with information relevant to PowerShell and scripting—in a more organized and easily searchable venue. We are proud to introduce the SAPIEN Information Center. The most recent articles are always highlighted in a list on the left side of the window. The SAPIEN Information Center currently has the following…
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Tags: PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, SAPIEN, scripting, Windows PowerShell
Posted in General, Howto, PowerShell, PowerShell 5.0, Scripting, Tip, Windows PowerShell | 5 Comments »
Thursday, July 7th, 2016 by Alex Riedel
The latest service build of PrimalScript 2016 (7.2.91) adds performance graphs for your scripts. To enable this feature you just need to make the “Performance” tab visible before you execute your script. Performance data can be collected on any script run from within PrimalScript as long as you enabled output redirection. That means this applies to PowerShell, VBScript, Perl or any other script that you run from within PrimalScript. The output window will also display the peak values during the execution of your script when it finishes. Since collecting this data while executing your script obviously adds additional CPU and…
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Tags: CPU, graph, memory, powershell, PrimalScript
Posted in PowerShell, PrimalScript, Software News, Windows PowerShell | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016 by David Corrales
We released a new service build of PowerShell Studio 2016 (v5.2.124)! Here’s what’s new: High DPI Support We have added high DPI support to PowerShell Studio’s UI. Those of you who previously ran PowerShell Studio on a high DPI monitor (Windows 10 in particular) probably noticed that the application appeared fuzzy. The fuzzy appearance is caused by Windows’ scaling of non-DPI aware applications. The good news is that this no longer the case with PowerShell Studio 2016. Not DPI Aware DPI Aware High DPI Layouts With high DPI screens, you will require high DPI layouts. When PowerShell Studio detects…
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Tags: DPI, powershell, PowerShell Studio 2016, Service build
Posted in PowerShell Studio, Service Build, Software News, Windows PowerShell | 8 Comments »
Monday, June 27th, 2016 by June Blender
With the advent of side-by-side module versions in Windows PowerShell 5.0, the lovely, but obscure ModuleSpecification object has become your new best friend. Use it to make sure that the commands and module that you use are the ones that you intend. Using ModuleSpecification Let's start with an example. I want to get the Expand-Archive command in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive cmdlet. I can use Get-Command, of course, but when I surround the command name with wildcard characters to make sure it searches, it returns this: PS C:\ > Get-Command *Expand-Archive* CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Function Expand-Archive 1.0.0.0…
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Tags: FullyQualifiedModule, FullyQualifiedName, juneb, ModuleSpecification, powershell, powershell 5.0, Version, VersionChaos, Versioning, Versions
Posted in PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell 5.1.14352.1002, Windows PowerShell | 14 Comments »
Monday, June 20th, 2016 by June Blender
In March 2016, SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. posted a survey asking users and administrators which versions of Windows PowerShell they're running. We got 148 responses by the April 8 when we closed the survey. This blog post reports the findings. While reading them, please keep in mind that this is not a statistically valid survey. We didn't select users or control for anything. Still, I did not expect these results. I might be a bit naïve about enterprise computing, but I'm surprised by the widespread adoption of Windows PowerShell 4.0 and 5.0. My sense is that the community moved much more…
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Tags: juneb, powershell, PowerShell 2.0, PowerShell 3.0, PowerShell 4.0, powershell 5.0, Survey, Windows PowerShell
Posted in PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell Versions, Survey, Windows PowerShell | 15 Comments »
Friday, June 17th, 2016 by June Blender
Applies to Pester 3.4.0 Like any Windows PowerShell script, a script that contains Pester tests can include parameters. It's easy enough to run the script and pass parameters and values in the usual way. But, when you use Invoke-Pester to run the script, you need to pass the parameters in a hash table. This blog explains how to do it. This post is the third in a series about how to run Pester tests. See also, How to Run Pester Tests and Invoke-Pester: Run Selected Tests. See the posts in this Pester series: How to Run a Pester Test Invoke-Pester:…
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Tags: BDD, juneb, powershell, TDD, testing, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), General, Pester, Test-Driven Development, Testing, Windows PowerShell | 22 Comments »
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 by June Blender
Applies to: Pester 3.4.0 In How to Run Pester Tests, I talked about the different places that you can put your Pester days and the different ways to run them, including, but not limited to, the Invoke-Pester function. Today, I'll talk about the parameters of Invoke-Pester function that let you determine which tests run. Next, I'll show you how to pass parameters to a Pester test file. By default, Invoke-Pester runs all *.Tests.ps1 files in the local directory and its subdirectories. That's a useful default, but the parameters of Invoke-Pester let you control the alternatives. See the posts in this…
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Tags: Invoke-Pester, juneb, Pester, powershell
Posted in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Pester, Test-Driven Development, Windows PowerShell | 9 Comments »
Monday, June 13th, 2016 by June Blender
Applies to: Pester 3.4.0 When you crack open the Pester module, you find the New-Fixture function, which creates a script and test file pair, and the Invoke-Pester function, which runs Pester tests. But New-Fixture is not the only way to create a Pester test and Invoke-Pester is not the only way to run a test. In this blog post, we'll discuss the different ways to run a Pester test, including, but not limited to, the Invoke-Pester function. In the next post, I'll rave about the cool parameters of Invoke-Pester. See the posts in this Pester series: How to Run a…
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Tags: BDD, Invoke-Pester, juneb, Pester, powershell, TDD, testing, unit test
Posted in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Pester, Test-Driven Development, Testing, Windows PowerShell | 24 Comments »
