Tab Completion

PowerShell Team January 30, 2008 Jan 30, 2008 01/30/08

Did you realize that you can use Wildcards with our tab completion? At the very beginning of the project, we had long discussions about whether it should be "Verb-Noun" or "Noun-Verb".  One of the arguments for NOUN-VERB was that it was better for tab completion.  We expected a TON of nouns but only a few verbs...

On Snoopy

PowerShell Team January 28, 2008 Jan 28, 2008 01/28/08

Oisin asked, "What's with the Snoopy obsession?". To me, the Snoopy dance represents a state pure, unalloyed joy to which the only sensible response is a silly dance. In case you missed it:  SNOOPY DANCE! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:  &#...

Just when you thought it was safe to surf the internet….

PowerShell Team January 28, 2008 Jan 28, 2008 01/28/08

A few weeks ago I posted a blog about Ye110beard's blog that had reworked the lyrics to AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" to be a tribute to PowerShell.  I closed with the statement, "I'm looking forward to the video!".  I THINK I CREATED A MONSTER......   :-) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MWWzrp3xkYY I ...

PowerShell gets Redmond Magazine 2008 Editor's Choice Award

PowerShell Team January 25, 2008 Jan 25, 2008 01/25/08

PowerShell continues to win awards with Redmond Magazine’s 2008 Editor’s “Slickest Time Saving Tool” co-winner to go along with PS’s Best of Tech-Ed Attendees award and Best of Tech-Ed Client awards. I said it before, I'll say it again: This train keeps gathering steam! SNOOPY DANCE!   Jeffrey Snover [...

Block Comments

PowerShell Team January 19, 2008 Jan 19, 2008 01/19/08

<Update 01/04/2012: This post was written in 2008, when PowerShell was in version 1. Block comments were introduced in Version 2.> One of the raging debates that have had within the team is the issue of whether to support block comments.  In PowerShell, we have the comment character #  e.g. # This is a test get-Process -Name ...

Format-XML

PowerShell Team January 18, 2008 Jan 18, 2008 01/18/08

Have you ever had an XML file that looks like crap? The problem is that XML is sorta the data encoding equivalent of Shimmer - sometimes its an encoding for programs and sometimes its an encoding for users. Our PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell pointed out that the output of Export-CLIXML looked like cra....  errrrrr .... well let's just say ...

Managing Remote WebSphere MQ via PowerShell/Should CMDLETS do their own Remoting?

PowerShell Team January 17, 2008 Jan 17, 2008 01/17/08

Dale Lane of IBM announced that the latest version of the IBM PowerShell Library for WebSphere MQ now supports administering remote queue managers.  You can read the details and see a couple of examples HERE.  Kudos to Dale and that team!  What this allows you to perform operations on multiple remote queue managers.  Some...