Steven Murawski

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Waiter, There’s a Bug in My Get-Help!

August 15, 2011 - 7:00 am

Posted in CommandAssist, Modules, PowerShell Version 2 | 1 comment

My friend Robert Robelo was kind enough to point out a problem with the proxies created by the CommandAssist module. In trying to research the problem, I found that PowerShell crashed ( yes, crashed.. not throwing an error, but CRASHED) when Get-Help could not resolve the command it needed to provide help for. Setting the [...]

Using -Assist in an Assisted Module – CommandAssist

August 13, 2011 - 9:50 am

Posted in CommandAssist, Modules, Scripts | No comments

This is the the meat of CommandAssist module, providing a contextual assistant to supplying the right parameters to a command. Getting to the Meat of It In the last post, we created a proxy module for ActiveDirectory module, so what does that really get for us? Starting off in a new shell, I’ve imported the [...]

Creating an Assisted Module with CommandAssist

August 13, 2011 - 9:06 am

Posted in CommandAssist, Modules, Scripts | 1 comment

The CommandAssist module allows you to easily create proxies functions for every command in a module (or snapin). There is a handy command to generate these proxy modules included with the CommandAssist module. Building an Assisted Module The easiest way to explain what happens is to walk through the usage of New-AssistedModule. To that end, [...]

Using CommandAssist – Assisted Where-Object

August 8, 2011 - 9:00 am

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To use CommandAssist, the first step you will need to take is to have ShowUI (at least 1.1) installed and run PowerShell in STA mode. Then, you can import CommandAssist. After importing CommandAssist, you can take advantage of the scriptblock builder built in to Where-Object Get-ChildItem | Where-Object -assist When you hit enter, you will [...]