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What do you code your PowerShell scripts in?
By Adam Bell | January 24, 2007
Having come from a VBScript background I have always been impressed by Sapien’s PrimalScript Profressional as an IDE. As I have been getting into PowerShell recently I checked out the new version (4.1) which has PS support. I thought perhaps it was time to break open the piggy bank and purchase myself a copy. Now don’t get me wrong, this is quite a spendy piece of software, which I’ve road tested heavily for VBS and loved. But how would it fair for PowerShell?
Well to be honest it was ok. It might have actually been quite good, but it had stiff competition: the PowerShell shell itself. I’ve found that PrimalScript just didn’t seem to have the same depth of intellisense as that provided by the shell. Since playing with PS I’ve found that the way I develop scripts has had a radical change. No longer do I hack some code blocks together in a script, and run it *fingers-crossed* to see if it works. Followed by wscript.echo statements to see where I’ve gone logically wrong.
No, now I hack happily away in the PS Shell with excellent intellisense support, and when I have my code block working nicely I cut and paste it out to a text editor. Now its always nice to have pretty colours and brace matching, so I’ve been using Flo’s notepad2 configured with the C# Scheme. I have to say I’ve been really happy with the combination though we’ll have to see how I go when I start trying to debug more complex code ;)
What IDE do you prefer for PS1? Any tips and tricks anyone would like to pass on?
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Topics: PowerShell | 2 Comments »
January 24th, 2007 at 19:11
I prefer PowerShell analyzer (also try the HTML export for your blog ) and Notepad
see also the video : http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/demos
Greetings /\/\o\/\/
August 16th, 2007 at 09:34
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