December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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23.10 Getting the Most out of PowerShell with PowerShell IDE
PowerShell is a powerful tool that gives developers control over everything from managing Exchange servers to automating various tasks on their local systems. However, IntelliSense and the benefits of a supportive IDE have spoiled us developers. It’s painful to drop back to the command line and lose things like IntelliSense and the ability to inspect variables.
Thankfully, Dr. Tobias Weltner of Scriptinternals created PowerShell IDE to help address precisely these issues. PowerShell IDE is a freeware environment that sits on top of PowerShell and gives you a great working environment.
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Tool | PowerShell IDE |
Version covered | 1.0 |
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Power Tools page | |
Summary | Excellent IDE letting you work much more efficiently with PowerShell |
License type | Freeware |
Online resources | Forums |
Supported Frameworks | .NET 2.0 |
Related tools in this book | PowerShell |
Getting Started
Download the .zip distribution from the tool’s home page and extract it to a utility directory on your workstation. PowerShell IDE needs version 2.0 of the .NET Framework and PowerShell (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx) to run.
Tip
Please see 23.9 Bringing .NET to the Command Line with PowerShell for details on why PowerShell is a great thing to learn and how to go about using ...