PowerShell V3 introduces Invoke-RestMethod, the CTP can be found here. This simplifies working with XML returned from the Web, like RSS feeds.
Compare V3 to V2 below. V3 uses 50% fewer lines of code.
PowerShell V3
$url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/rss.aspx" Invoke-RestMethod $url | Select Title, Link
PowerShell V2
$url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/rss.aspx" $wc = New-Object net.webclient [xml]$xml = $wc.DownloadString($url) $xml.rss.channel.item | Select Title, Link
The results are the same
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