There is no question that PowerShell is a big improvement over the old DOS shell scripting. If you want to do anything more complex that piping commands from one to cmdlet to another you are probably going to end up using functions or passing parameters into your scripts. While you can add parameters to aContinue reading “PowerShell parameters”
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TFS PowerShell cmdlets
With Git or Mercurial (or just about any other source control product) you take command line functionality for granted. However with TFS, Microsoft has made getting the PowerShell cmdlets convoluted. Although you can download the TFS 201x Power Tools which contain the PowerShell cmdlets, you need to have Visual Studio installed. If you just wantContinue reading “TFS PowerShell cmdlets”
Running Powershell
After a slow start, there is now a large availability of powershell cmdlets to control most things in Windows. Whats more, powershell cmdlets are sometimes the only programmatic way to control some software. This means at some point you are likely to need to use cmdlets from Python. Until there is a native way of doing this with a Python module the easiestContinue reading “Running Powershell”
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