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In This Episode {#tiap}

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Christopher about his Visual Studio add-on: StudioShell. At the end we have included the interview with did with Andy Tearle back on Ep 79.

News

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• Lots of PowerShell content is in the works for Techstravaganza in New York City March 18th{#uurm}
• Tome (who hasn’t been on the show after all) posted a PrimalForms 2011 sneak peek{#nwm7}
• Idera is kicking off PowerShell Webcasts with Thomas Lee 1/26/2011{#pojn}
• The Lync PowerShell team has a scripting challenge on their blog{#y_y5}

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Interview **

The news is brought to you by Don Jones’ 2011 PowerShell Retreat in Las Vegas

Links:

• Blog: http://www.beefycode.com
• StudioShell announcement: http://www.beefycode.com/post/Announcing-StudioShell.aspx

 

Chatroom Comments:

Open Source? Commercial?

(I wanna help)

so can we add right-click menu items on the projects/files to invoke script?

I have not used nuGet or PowerGUIVSX yet and not so used to VS too. However, ##can I use any of these (including StudioShell) to automate my load testing and results collection, etc?

Is the console rich wpf like regular document windows? Can we do inline wpf stuff like regular edit windows? (like POshConsole?)

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Resources **

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  [The Scripting Guys show us how to validate parameters](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/01/11/validate-powershell-parameters-before-running-the-script.aspx)


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  Quest Software recently posted [an interview they did at TechEd Berlin with Jon White](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7R6JtCEuaY), test lead for Windows PowerShell


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  Don Jones is releasing a [free PowerShell classroom training kit](http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose/tabid/2248/entryid/76035/Want-to-teach-PowerShell-Heres-a-free-trainer-kit.aspx)


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  MS Press posted a book excerpt titled "[Using Windows PowerShell to Perform and Automate Farm Administrative Tasks](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg550867.aspx)" from the book Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion

Tips





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  [Shay shows us how to compare hotfixes on cluster members](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2011/01/12/quicktip-Comparing-installed-HotFixes-on-a-two-node-Cluster.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ShayLevy+(Shay+Levy++-+$cript+Fanatic))