PowerShell Plus 3.5 Beta

I use PowerShell Plus pretty much all the time for the development of PowerShell scripts. I have it on both my desktop workstation and my laptop, and I regularly demonstrate it in my classroom teaching. Those nice folks at Idera have just released the beta of the next Version, V3.5, of this cool tool which is a free download (although the final product will be commercial and is not free).
The beta shows off the new features in V3.5:

• Remoting Support
• Improved Script Sharing
• Enhancements to the code editor
• Enhancements to the Learning Center.

I have a long boring weekend ahead stuck in a hotel – I will be playing!

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PowerShellPlus v2.1 Beta – A Cool Feature

As I noted in in a recent blog post, Idera has released a new beta for PowerShell Plus 2.1. I’ve  been using it a bit lately and I can’t wait for it to go final!

One really neat feature I discovered today is the Shft+Enter feature. If like me, you find CMD.EXE still has the occasional feature that PowerShell doesn’t quite meat (dir /s and dir /ad are two that are much harder in PowerShell), then you can enter the command and instead of hitting Enter, hit Shift+Enter and the cmd will be run by CMD.EXE. So inside PowerShell Plus, it looks like this:

 

PSH [C:\]: dir foo*.* /s         <--- plus Shift+Enter
Volume in drive C is XP_32bit
Volume Serial Number is 44B8-CFED

Directory of C:\

10/02/2009  16:59    <DIR>          foo
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

Directory of C:\foo

10/02/2009  16:59                 7 foo.foo
16/05/2008  13:18           121,306 foo.txt
               2 File(s)        121,313 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\Help\Tours\htmlTour

04/08/2004  12:00             1,777 footer.htm
               1 File(s)          1,777 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
               3 File(s)        123,090 bytes
               1 Dir(s)   8,188,985,344 bytes free
PSH [C:\]:

Super cool!  Yet another reason for serious scripters to buy PowerShell Plus!

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PowerShellPlus v2.1 Beta

This is sort of exciting - PowerShellPlus v2.1 Beta is live! I’ve used PowerShell Plus for some time and love it. But there are things that I’d like to see, in particular the CTP3 support. Well, now we have that – and I’m downloading it as I write this post. The features in 2.1 that catch my eye are: VBS support, STA MOde, Code Sharing and of course, CTP3 support. I’ll be posting more once I have the code running and have a chance to give it a good test!

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Blogging in 2008

In 2008, I spent a lot of time blogging, both here in Under The  Stairs, and on my PowerShell scripts blog (http://pshscripts.blogspot.com) and my corporate blog (http://cacorner.blogspot.com). The first two of these blogs had a lot of PowerShell content (especially the PowerShell Scripts blog which was all PowerShell).

Traffic varied a bit over the year, but really picked up in the autumn, as follows:

 

Month	Under The Stairs Unique visitors	Under The Stairs Page views	PowerShell Scripts Unique visitors	PowerShell Scripts Page views
January	4,940	6,738
February	4,919	6,683
March	4,882	6,724
April	4,258	5,728
May	4,118	5,673
June	4,157	5,699
July	4,696	6,521	438	764
August	4,234	5,846	183	285
September	4,292	5,830	165	252
October	4,649	6,267	253	363
November	5,588	7,642	434	711
December	6,743	9,636	1,132	1,884

 

As this table shows, I had more traffic towards the end of the year, which I attribute to posting more. I was motivated by what I saw at TechEd to up my level of posting, which has paid off in more traffic.

The PowerShell Scripts blog was started in July. However from Aug-September, it did not see much traffic mainly because I was did not post during those months. (due to being pretty busy with my day job). 

With the release of PowerShell V2 CTP3, interest in the new features has driven a  lot of traffic to both blogs. And with the newly released Windows 7 betas, I hope this interest will continue.

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Idera – PowerShellPlus Professional in Beta

Idera has just released a beta of their latest version of PowerShell Plus, which you can download  now from http://www.idera.com/Products/PowerShell/.
PS+ is a scripting GUI aimed to help both admins and developers make the best of PowerShell. PS+ has an interactive console, an advanced script editor and a comprehensive learning centre. For those that know it, PowerShellPlus Professional Edition is built on the backbone of PowerShell IDE.
The beta edition is currently free but the final version will be commercial. Idera are offering a good discount on the final version to beta testers. This looks to be a nice product (and I’m using it already!)

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