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PowerShell can serve that exact purpose, without the overhead of launching Visual Studio or needing other tools.  PowerShell can leverage the experience developers have with the .NET Framework, right at the command line. 

The Code Runner .NET project includes a sample program that takes nineteen lines.  Here is the PowerShell equivalent -

Write-Host $MyInvocation.MyCommand

Code Runner .NET seems to be a pretty cool project, but PowerShell in the development environment can be a very useful tool.

[NOTE:  I’m a sysadmin, not a developer, so take my comparison with whatever sized grain of salt desired.] 

This is the first release and contains some basic cmdlets for interacting with PolyMon.  Cmdlets included are:

• Get-Monitor
• Set-Monitor
• New-Monitor
• Add-Operator
• Remove-Monitor

What I am looking to do with PoShMon was create a scriptable interface to create and modify monitor objects.  There is a (limited) help included with this (using the standard PowerShell Get-Help structure).

Please provide me with suggestions, feature requests, and other feedback.

Installation instructions:

You will need to have the PolyMon Monitor installed.  Running the install script will copy the PoShMon.dll and PoShMon.dll-Help.xml to the PolyMon\PolyMon Monitor directory and install the snap-in.  It will load the snap in for the current PowerShell session.

If you would like to make the cmdlets available in other PowerShell sessions, you can use Add-PsSnapin PoShMon during your console session or add it to your profile script.

PoShMon can be downloaded here.

PoShMon’s source code can be downloaded here.

More information about PolyMon can be found here

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If you haven’t had listened to the podcast before, we cover a wide array of sysadmin related topics, tech topics, and news stories in a less than formal structure.  We also have had a number of interesting interviews.

Hope to see you there!

They’ve also released the first half of an interview with Jeffrey Snover.  Find it HERE.

Great work guys!

In this episode, I take a look at Get-Member, which allows you to inspect the properties and methods of the objects that are available from the PowerShell commandline.

 Feedback is always appreciated, so please post a comment, send me an email, or find me in the PowerShell IRC chatroom (#powershell on irc.freenode.net).

Download here: WMV Version 

P.S.  I have noticed in the WMV version the sound level is a bit lower.. I’ll take that into account in the next show.

P.P.S Show #2 should be a lot smoother and contain more information… I’ve learned a lot about how I need to produce a show in this format in the past few days.

In this show, I cover installing PowerShell (watch the installer work!), and then demonstrate some basic cmdlets for beginning to explore the shell.

Featured cmdlets:

• Get-Command
• Get-Help
• Get-Member
• Get-PSDrive

Next show :

For show #2:

• I’ll be installing the PowerShell Community Extensions and /\/\o\/\/’s PowerTab.
• We’ll work a bit more with Get-Member and introduce Get-ChildItem and Get-ItemProperty.

Disclaimer:

This was my first “real” screencast, so bear with me as I make use of some of the production tools I have available. I actually had to re-record the audio, as the record narration feature in Camtasia did not have sufficient quality for release. I’m shooting for a bi-weekly release, so that I can improve the post production work.

EDIT - I’ve changed the download to a WMV file.

The first show covers installing PowerShell and showing some of the discoverability features of PowerShell.

The second show will cover the installation of some helpful additions and a few more cmdlets to further explore the shell environment.

Required:

• .NET Framework 2.0 (for x86 processors)
• PowerShell Installer

Nice Additions:

• PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX)
• /\/\o\/\/’s PowerTab
• Quest AD Cmdlets
• PowerGUI

Free For Non-Commercial Use:

• PowerShell Plus
• NetCmdlets

DNRTV Screencast on Installing PowerShell and PowerTab

• Episode 82 of DotNetRocks TV

Starting next week, we will be walking through in an full install of PowerShell and some of the basic cmdlets for exploring this new shell environment.  Talk to you soon!