I wrapped his call like so:

Test-IsAppFabricInstalled

Next would be to enable this to take a list of computer names so it can check remotely for AppFabric installations. I leave that as an exercise for the reader.

Function Test-IsAppFabricInstalled { SearchKB -KBID "KB970622" }

Ron Jacobs PowerShell Script

Function SearchKB($KBID)            
{            
    $found = $false            
            
    # Get all the info using WMI             
    $results = Get-WmiObject `
                -class “Win32_QuickFixEngineering” `
                -namespace "root\CIMV2"            
            
    foreach ($objItem in $results)             
    {             
        if ($objItem.HotFixID -match $KBID)             
        {             
            $found = $true            
            break            
        }             
    }            
                
    $found            
}

Get-Module -ListAvailable dist* | ft -a            
Import-Module DistributedCacheAdministration, DistributedCacheConfiguration            
Help *-cache*            
            

You can call these PowerShell cmdlets from your C# programs, HERE is how.

There are 41 cmdlets available for AppFabric. Here they are along with the help synopsis.

I finally go to shake the hand of Jeffrey Snover, the man behind the vision of PowerShell. We got to chat for a few minutes before he was on the panel Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming. Some great thinkers on the panel, Butler Lampson, Erik Meijer, Don Box, Jeffrey Snover, Herb Sutter, Burton Smith. Covered Parallel programming (we’ll still be figuring it out in the next 5-10 years), textual DSLs, modeling, importance of glue languages and more.

I’ll be doing some posts on SQL Modeling Services (aka Oslo). Just finished downloading the latest CTP on my main box. It has a dependency on .NET 4, works in VS 2010, has more features and better integration with SQL and VS. Don’t forget to download Pinky’s DynamicObject Over M values. It is a implementation of .NET 4.0 dynamic object over Node/Edge data model provides a read-only object-based view over M values.

Plus sat in on the PowerShell talks. Layering GUIs over PowerShell. Very cool and just the beginning. Download the demos here. They give insight to how Microsoft Exchange re-worked there GUIs to sit on top of PowerShell. Restricted Runspaces for security, Runspace Pools to execute PowerShell asynchronously, Remoting, and the start of how to ‘record’ the PowerShell commands the user is clicking on in the GUI.

Lot’s to experiment, enjoy and engage with.

Direct Links

• App Fabric Download   Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides common building blocks required by .NET applications when extending their functionality to the cloud, and specifically, the Windows Azure platform.
• Microsoft Dallas Use the Dallas Service Explorer to visually construct REST API queries and preview the content in XML, ATOM, RAW (for blob and real-time content), or in Table view and you can use Power Pivot with the data.
• Reactive Extensions for .NET
  • Check out Matt’s multi part series. Including a Twitter client
  • Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx)

• SQL Server Modeling

  Renamed from Oslo. Modeling has a home in a shipping Microsoft product. It was also shown during the first keynote and how it can play in Cloud development.

  • Check out the write up
  • Download the CTP
  • Read Doug Purdy’s blog (owner of Modeling) and On DSLs and a few other things
• PowerShell. “Demoed” quickly during the keynote for deploying to the Azure Cloud. PowerShell is the automation platform for Windows.
• Visual studio 2010 has a huge number of features for developers. Intellitrace, Architecture Explorer, Azure templates, Parallel debugging and more