PowerShell? This could be fun.
Published 4.27.2006 by ~mattg
Since I don’t often check up on the world of Microsoft’s OS dealings, the release of PowerShell RC1 came as a bit of a shock. I did not know that Windows was planning something like this.
Now, I as far as development goes, I work mainly in Visual Studio .NET, but I know my way around Linux enough to keep this server running and relatively secure. I even has some very basic backup scripts running to save all my data from the ever-looming crash.
Powershell looks, well, cool. There are some accessors that allow you to utilize some of the .NET 2.0 base classes (int, string, regex, etc). This gives you a whole lot more scripting power than your standard windows batch file. Unfortunately, the “cmdlets,” as they are called, don’t sync up much with any older scripting languages… It really is brand new! (Go figure).
So, if you feel like tinkering with it, the download links are as follows:
- X86 Windows PowerShell latest build: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=64772&clcid=0×409
- X64 Windows PowerShell latest build: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=64773&clcid=0×409
- Windows PowerShell documentation: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=64774&clcid=0×409
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