Way back before the days of PowerShell Core, or even VS Code for that matter, the PowerShell ISE was the center of my PowerShell world. I spent a lot of time finding ways to make it easier for me to use and to push it to its limits. Naturally, the PowerShell ISE doesn’t play much…
Tag: PowerShell ISE
PowerShell Tough Love
The other day I was helping Gladys Kravitz on her transition to VS Code. Like many of you, she has been using the PowerShell ISE for years and has a deeply ingrained workflow. I’ll be the first to admit that making the transition to VS Code is not easy. I remember when I made the…
PowerShell 7 Scripting with the PowerShell ISE
By now, everyone should have gotten the memo that with the move to PowerShell 7, the PowerShell ISE should be considered deprecated. When it comes to PowerShell script and module development for PowerShell 7, the recommended tool is Visual Studio Code. It is free and offers so much more than the PowerShell ISE ever could….
Friday Fun: Well That’s a Fine ToDo!
Today’s Friday Fun isn’t exactly groundbreaking but you might find it useful in your PowerShell script development process. You might even learn a little something about the PowerShell ISE which is really the point of these articles anyway. How many times have you been working on a script or PowerShell tool and know that you’ll…
Jumping in the PowerShell ISE
During my day I may be working on multiple files in the PowerShell ISE. Often these files are part of different modules and since I use git I generally need to be in the same directory as the file I’m working on. This necessitates a lot of manually changing location in the PowerShell ISE prompt. …
Formal Remote ISE Connections
I have updated my PowerShell tools that make it easier to open up a remote tab in the PowerShell ISE. The standard approach is limited and doesn’t allow for things like using SSL or different ports. I have had the ISERemoteTab project up on GitHub for awhile. I recently added a WPF-based form to make…
Friday Fun: Tweaking the PowerShell ISE
Today’s fun is still PowerShell related, but instead of something in the console, we’ll have some fun with the PowerShell ISE. One of the things I love about the PowerShell ISE is that you can customize it and extend it. My ISE Scripting Geek project is an example. But today I have a simple example…
Regions Rule the PowerShell ISE
Whenever I teach PowerShell and we get to talking about the PowerShell ISE, I encourage people to get in the habits of using regions. A region can help you organize your code and hide it when you don’t need the distraction. I think regions are especially helpful if you are creating a module file with…
PowerShell ISE Remote Possibilities
Normally, I think of the PowerShell ISE as a script development tool. I typically don’t think of it as a daily management tool, primarily because everything shares the same scope and if you are running scripts and aren’t careful can sometimes lead to unexpected results. But the ISE feature I really like is the ability…
A Spooky PowerShell Halloween
I shared some code yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, but you may have missed it and I wanted to have a more permanent record so this is it. In the spirit of the holiday, I thought it would spooky to have a little fun with the PowerShell ISE. A spooky Halloween theme for the ISE…
Friday Fun: Open Last File in the PowerShell ISE
Over the last few articles I’ve been sharing some shortcuts to get most recently used or edited files. For today’s Friday Fun I thought I’d share something that I use in my PowerShell ISE profile. Whenever I start the ISE, I automatically open the last file I was working on. Instead of launching the ISE…
Friday Fun: Edit Recent File
As you might imagine I work on a lot of PowerShell projects at the same time. Sometimes I’ll start something at the beginning of the week and then need to come back to it at the end of the week. The problem is that I can’t always remembered what I called the file. So I…
PowerShell ISE AddOn ModuleMenu
Recently I did an online presentation on ISE Addons. As I was preparing for the talk one thing led to another, as they usually do when I’m working in PowerShell, and before I knew it I had a new add-on for the PowerShell ISE. This addon creates a menu for all of the modules in…
Embrace and Extend the PowerShell ISE
I did a presentation today for the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of SQLPass. The recording will be posted later and I’ll update this when I have the link. But in the meantime, as promised, I wanted to make available my slide deck and demos. You’ll need to download the individual ISE Addons from the respective sites….
ISE Scripting Geek Module
Over the last year I’ve posted functions I’ve written to extend the Windows PowerShell ISE. I have finally pulled everything together into a module I’m calling the ISE Scripting Geek. Download and extract the zip file (below) to your modules folder. You should end up with a path like ‘C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\ISEScriptingGeek’. In the ISE, import the…