List/Grid Tag Archives: pscx
How to strong name partially signed assemblies
When developing software based on .NET it is quite common to strong name your assemblies especially if you’re a library vendor providing your libraries to other people. One rule of…
#PSCXTip Getting details about a command’s parameters
The parameters for a PowerShell command can be quite complex. Some parameters are only valid in certain parameter sets. Parameters have types, may be mandatory or optional, can have aliases…
#PSCXTip Manipulating file attributes
When dealing with files under source control it is quite often useful to be able to make a bunch of files readonly or writable in bulk. You can do this…
#PSCXTip Formatting XML for better readability
XML is great for easily storing structured data and is pretty easy to work with in PowerShell. However, sometimes you run across XML that is so poorly formatted you lose…
#PSCXTip How to determine the byte order mark of a text file
Text files created by PowerShell are little endian Unicode (UTF-16LE) by default. You can see this by inspecting the first couple of bytes of a text file for a BOM…
PowerShell Community Extensions
I started the PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) project to fill in some of the gaps in the set of built-in Windows PowerShell commands. Over the years, some of the PSCX…
