Category: Powershell

Vlad Drumea shows off one way to get work done in Powershell:

This is a brief post containing my information about my PowerShell coding setup, IDE, extensions, etc.

I’m writing this mainly because, based on the reactions to my reddit comment, some people might not be aware of how helpful the VS Code + PS extension combo can be for PowerShell code writing.

This is the environment that I use to write PowerShell scripts such as PSBlitz, Decode-AsusRouterConfig, and my SQL Server install script.

Click through to see how Vlad gets it done. Every time I see someone using the Powershell ISE, I feel the urge to stage an intervention, as the ISE does some really weird stuff with your Powershell environment that doesn’t make it amenable to writing good scripts. This is a much better way.

Shane O’Neill demands order:

However, there is one drawback I have with hash tables: they don’t default to the order in which they are inserted. I’m OK with this since I come from a DB background, and I’m used to order not being enforced unless I specify an ORDER BY. Not everyone is as lenient as we are, though, and the vast majority of the louder masses expect this ordering.

Now, there are ways around this unordered aspect of hash tables.

Click through for the easy answer, the less easy answer, and some additional thoughts on script development from Shane.