10 PowerShell Posts I Did in 2009

Doug Finke — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:05:15 +0000

I had fun doing these PowerShell posts.

Try PowerShell – An Interactive Tutorial	Michael Foord inspired this with his Try Python Silverlight application
How to Host PowerShell in a WPF Application	A How To video
PowerShell Out-ExcelPivotTable – Quickly Create Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel	Automating Excel Pivot tables with PowerShell
PowerShell, An Exercise in Species Barcoding	Inspired by Peter Norvig’s (Director of research at Google) python version
PowerShell – Find the K most common words in a file	Based on Jon Bentley’s approach in “Little Languages”
PowerShell ISE-Cream – Alias Expansion	Uses PowerShell’s tokenizer to expand aliases like %, ? etc. into ForEach and Where
Update: Dynamic GUIs and the PowerShell Pipeline	How to inject GUIs into a PowerShell Pipeline
PowerShell yUML Workbench	yUML is a web service. A How To using PowerShell to generate UML diagrams
PowerShell, PowerBoots and an Oslo DSL Grammar	Blending MGrammar and PowerShell
Creating and Displaying Trigrams with PowerShell	Based on Wolfram\|Alphas Trigram visuals. Combines PowerShell and yUML

How to work around a PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment Bug

Doug Finke — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:53:56 +0000

When saving a new file using PowerShell’s ISE it encodes it as Unicode. For existing files the encoding is not changed.

Some editors and viewers are unable to display files with this encoding.

It is a bug and won’t be fixed in time for Windows 7 RTM.

Open the file in a another editor, do a file save as look for the encoding options and choose ANSI.

Another option, execute this in the command pane

$psISE.CurrentFile.Save([Text.Encoding]::ASCII)

It will save/resave the file with this encoding going forward.

I’ve added this to my ISE profile so the command is easily accessed from the ISE menu

$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Add("Save File ASCII",{$psISE.CurrentFile.Save([Text.Encoding]::ASCII)}, $null) | out-null