In PowerShell V2 CTP3 (and possibly earlier CTPs but I didn’t try it), you can add a Custom menu to the PowerShell ISE that will run your own commands. Thanks to the object model that PowerShell ISE exposes, those commands can even modify the text files open in the editor.
One of the first things I [...]
I have been playing with PowerShell a lot since V2 CTP3 was posted and will write about setting up custom menus in the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (PowerShell ISE). Before I get to that, though, I wanted to say something about the profiles.
In particular: $profile and what you get back from its default ToString() method.
On [...]
After a long hiatus from Monad, err, PowerShell, I have started working with it again now that Release Candidate 1 is available.
One thing that frustrated me when I last used the shell was figuring out how to do all the things I was used to doing with dir in cmd.exe. Things like dir /o:d to [...]