Have you wanted to develop binary cmdlets using C# .NET for PowerShell Core on Mac OS X or Linux? If so, you and I are in the same boat. In this document, I’ll cover the steps necessary to develop C# cmdlets and package them up into a PowerShell module. We’ll …
Visual Studio Code is an excellent developer tool for PowerShell projects. However, regardless of which type of project you’re developing (C#, Node.js, Python, etc.), you can benefit from changing your default shell to the powerful, object-oriented PowerShell shell. Now, you may not want to change your default shell for the …
When you think of PowerShell, is writing a PowerShell “script” one of the first things you think of? If so, I implore you to read on and think about the next time you write any PowerShell code. During the rest of this article, I’ll attempt to describe a gap I’ve …
Evernote has recently come under fire for their new privacy policy that is intended to enable machine learning, with a goal of improving user experience. For some users, who aren’t storing critically sensitive data, this might not mean too much, but certain users have trade secrets that must be kept …
Microsoft just made a huge splash today, by announcing that PowerShell is now available on Linux! I created a launch video that demonstrates how to get PowerShell Core running inside a Docker container! You can see the video over on Microsoft’s MSDN Channel 9. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/msftazure/Run-PowerShell-Natively-on-Linux-with-Docker Check if PowerShell is Running …
We recently set up a custom Docker Registry, using the VMware Harbor solution. The NGINX endpoint was secured using a TLS certificate from DigiCert. When we ran the docker login command, to authenticate to this registry, we were receiving a very common error message: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority …
Have you already provisioned a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, with a dynamic private IP address? Do you want to change that dynamically provisioned IP address to a static IP address? If so, you’re in luck! This process is relatively easy using the Microsoft Azure PowerShell module. Install PowerShell 5.0 First, …
In PowerShell, you can easily create environment variables using a few different methods. However, these are only scoped to the current PowerShell process, and not to any process running inside the user’s profile, or any process running on the system. Here are a few examples of methods that you can …
This will be a fairly brief article that talks about single quotes vs. double quotes in the PowerShell automation language. Single Quotes In PowerShell, single quotes are commonly used to define string literals. If you want to include a single quote inside of a single-quoted string literal, then you simply …
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