Monthly Archives: May 2010

I know there isn’t much of today left but if you are quick its possible to get an ebook version of PowerShell in Practice for $15.  See the deal of the day at http://www.manning.com/

PowerShell in Practice will be going to the printers next week. Between now and 21 May 2010 you can get 40% off of PowerShell in Practice (and other Manning books that are in the final stages of production) Use promotional … Continue reading →

I mentioned last time that PSCX 2.0 was available. There is a very wide range of functionality available in the form of functions and cmdlets: Cmdlets Add-PathVariable                        Clear-MSMQueue                          ConvertFrom-Base64ConvertTo-Base64                        ConvertTo-MacOs9LineEnding              ConvertTo-MetricConvertTo-UnixLineEnding                ConvertTo-WindowsLineEnding             Convert-XmlDisconnect-TerminalSession              Expand-Archive                          Export-BitmapFormat-Byte                             Format-Hex                              Format-XmlGet-ADObject                            Get-AdoConnection                       Get-AdoDataProviderGet-AlternateDataStream                 Get-Clipboard                           … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned the Community Extensions many times in these posts. Version 2.0 is now available http://www.codeplex.com/wikipage?ProjectName=Pscx. It installs as a PowerShell module – much easier and neater. I’ve blogged about the beta a few times – if you didn’t try … Continue reading →

Again this takes the pattern from the binary function and adapts it to work with hex 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 ## this will always subtract value2 from value1 … Continue reading →