# Monday, July 28, 2008

The CodePlex guys do it again. This is a great feature that will surely help large projects garner a bit more help and support through the use of better developer documentation for getting contributors up to speed. The only thing that’s missing is syntax highlighting support for the PowerShell language. Vote for the feature here - Wiki Syntax Highlighting for PowerShell

You’ll need a CodePlex account for this I think. More information on the July 22nd release:

Syntax highlighting has been added to project wiki pages. See the Wiki Markup Guide for details.
Also added is mailing list support for project discussions: start or respond to a discussion from your e-mail client; get notifications of new responses as they come in, or in daily digest format. Now users can subscribe to an entire project’s discussions, including all new discussions posted to the project. See Mailing Lists Documentation for more information.
Feature requests addressed in this release:
Syntax Highlighting Extension
Feature request: Mailing lists
Issues addressed in this release:
HTTPS should be dropped
HTTPS in forums causes browser warnings
Feature request: please let me input ENTER in release description textbox
Pressing enter while in textarea submits form

posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 4:29:46 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback

In the latest PowerShellCX changeset, archive read and extract support is finally available. Sorry there are no binary builds yet. Use the Extract-Archive cmdlet as a stand-alone to extract all files. Use Read-Archive to generate ArchiveEntry objects which can be piped through Where-Object for filtering and eventual consumption by Extract-Archive (which can accept ArchiveEntry as well as FileInfo pipeline input). I’ve got progress reporting working too for extract. I’ve added support for reading/extracting SevenZip, Arj, BZip2, Cab, Chm, Cpio, Deb, GZip, Iso, Lzh, Lzma, Nsis, Rar, Rpm, Tar, Wim, Z & Zip.  Yes, you did see ISO support in that list ;-) Write support is only zip, bzip2, tar and gzip still.

There are more features coming, including encrypted archive support.

posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 5:28:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback
# Thursday, June 05, 2008

I took a few hours yesterday to "tidy up my room" so to speak, so I built a nice MSI installer, updated the help, CodePlex Wiki and examples and closed all bugs. This is probably the final release now that PowerShell 2.0 CTP2 has introduced support for eventing, so thanks for all the support.

New Features

  • Multiple named queue support and default queue with -QueueName parameter
  • Better COM support, window message pumping etc.
  • NoFlush / Peek parameter support for queue reading
  • Get-EventQueue command added for viewing queues and their message counts.

Cmdlet Name Changes

  • Get-Event -> Read-Event
  • Connect-EventListener -> Connect-Event
  • Disconnect-EventListener -> Disconnect-Event

Additionally, several niggling bugs closed (including the one where read-event -wait would return immediately with no events).

http://www.codeplex.com/pseventing

For an advanced example: Foreground / Background Swappable Downloads In PowerShell.

posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:20:10 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback