Digging around ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment), the $psISE variable has several properties that let you interact with ISE environment. I found the ToggleOutliningExpansion method and added it to the Add-on menu with a shortcut key, all accessible through the $psISE variable.

These are all examples of how PowerShell helps me optimize my time and effort.

Note: As Ravi points out in the comments. This feature is already hooked up to Ctrl-M under the Edit menu.

Toggle All Regions Add-on

$DisplayName = "Toggle All Regions"            
$Action      = {$psISE.CurrentFile.Editor.ToggleOutliningExpansion()}            
$ShortCut    = "CTRL+ALT+L"            
            
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.Add($DisplayName, $Action, $ShortCut)

Before

Press Ctrl+Alt+L

And all of the regions are collapsed.

Now, Expand What You Need

Or, press Ctrl+Alt+L to expand all regions.

Leveraging PowerShell’s .NET Framework integration (Net.WebClient) you download the XML string from the OData endpoint, convert it an XML Document using the [xml] accelerator and iterate the collection extracting the Id, converting the download count to an int and finally selecting the top 15 ( pipes to PowerShell’s Select cmdlet using the –First parameter).

Get Top 15 NuGet Downloads

You can add the Get-NuGetStats function to your NuGet PM Console Profile (type $profile at the prompt) so it will be available the next time you load Visual Studio. For now, paste the code (see below) into the PM Console (or any other PowerShell Host) and run the function.

The Code

Function Get-NuGetStats {            
    $url = 'http://packages.nuget.org/GalleryServer/FeedService.svc/Packages?$orderby=VersionDownloadCount desc&$select=Id,VersionDownloadCount'            
    $wc = New-Object net.webclient            
            
    $(            
        ForEach($entry in ([xml] ($wc.DownloadString($url))).feed.entry ) {            
            $entry.properties |             
                Select Id, @{            
                    Name="DownloadCount"            
                    Expression={[int]($_.VersionDownloadCount.'#text')            
                }            
            }            
        }            
    ) | Select -First 15 | Format-Table -AutoSize            
}

Paste the Code into the NuGet Package Manager Console

Works in any PowerShell Host, PowerShell Console, ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) or NuGet PM Console.

Note, these steps can be used to pull and transform any OData feed. The differences being the OData endpoint and the field names being retrieved.

Check out the NuGet OData URL. It specifies both the $orderby and $select system query options. This makes the work of sorting the data the responsibility of the server as well as reduces the amount of data returned. $Select limits how many fields are sent back to the client.

Modifications

You can easily parameterize Get-NuGetStats so it defaults to returning the Top 15 or lets the user specify how many they would like.

Here are the (old) 4 steps and shortcut keys to copy that file in ISE to a new tab.

• Select all (Ctrl-A)
• Copy (Ctrl-C)
• Insert a new file (Ctrl-N)
• Finally, paste (Ctrl-V)

A New ShortCut Ctrl+Shift+J

This gets it down to three key strokes.

Function Duplicate-CurrentFile {            
    $currentFile = $psISE.CurrentFile            
    $newFile = $psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.Files.Add()            
                
    $newFile.Editor.Text = $currentFile.Editor.Text            
}            
            
$m = $psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus            
$m.Add("Duplicate Current File", {Duplicate-CurrentFile}, "Ctrl+Shift+J")

Clever, funny tweet:

…………/\…………….\o/…………. …….            Shark!

Links

• Portable PowerShell with Portable PowerShell ISE – Beta sign up HERE
• PowerShell for complete beginners – Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:00 AM. Register HERE
• Don Jones’ slide decks from TechEd 2010 HERE
• The book “PowerShell In Action” released the next 3 chapters HERE
• PowerShell support in Visual Studio! – This is great news. In early stages and very promising. CodePlex bits HERE
• PowerBoots is getting faster – Jaykul is turning the crank. PowerBoots is WPF wrapped in PowerShell HERE

• Brandon Linton posts Force powershell to wait for process to finish. A neat trick to make PowerShell wait before continuing.
• Announcing EmailVerify.NET v3.0 is a 3rd party tool sporting Windows PowerShell built-in support
• Quick Tip: Renaming Tabs in the ISE – ISE is the integrated scripting environment editor that ships with PowerShell V2
• Oisin really shows how to employ PowerShell in PowerShell ISE Hacking: Change default save encoding to ASCII. ISE by default saves new files in Unicode. His script solves that and shows off PowerShell eventing and more
• Quest Software announced their open sourcing of PowerSlim. An Acceptance Testing plug-in for the Fitnesse acceptance testing framework. Created by Ward Cunningham. I had looked at interfacing this with PowerShell a while back. I am going to make time to check this framework out

I’ve discovered how to do many cool things that, as some of my colleagues outside of the PowerShell team have put it, have showed them the Power of PowerShell

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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.

Workarounds

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