PowerShell - Morten Nielsen

Running PowerShell scripts from a fileshare

Since I wrote it I’ve started using Parallels and stopped having my powershell scripts in a fileshare. But the information is usefull none the less. I set up my Mac with running all my .Net development in a VirtualBox environment. I share my source-code directory to the guest OS

Continuous Delivery

Why not use puppet for installing applications?

I was asked this question during a talk I had on Continous delivery I held at GTUG Stockholm (which apparentlly is changing its name). “Why not use puppet for installing the application software”. I was a bit perplexed, because, were not installing our software using puppet, and to me, puppet

Hudson

PowerShell logs even caught errors

An interesting PowerShell feature is that all errors are collected in an array called $error. so for example if you throw an error you can echo $error and find it later: However the error is also logged even if you catch it. Consider the following code snippet, which I’ve

CI

Creating ZIP files using Powershell

I’ve been working with a RemoteX version of the Continuous Delivery pipeline that is available at github. At RemoteX we have all our deployment done using PowerShell so to maintain as much familiarity as possible between builds and deploys were using the PowerShell plugin for Hudson (Jenkins). The set

PowerShell

Powershell principles

We have a document checked-in in the root of our source-control system for Applications. The document is the development principles we strive for. Most of them are basic, SOLID principles with highlights in how our code works. Currently we’re focusing on automating the installation process for applications, the goal

ClickOnce

Updating ClickOnce deployment manifest with PowerShell

We are automating some of our deployment using powershell. As such we use the command line tool mage.exe for signing our deployment manifests, in effect were creating them using mage.exe as well. We needed to add the trustUrlParamter setting to one of our manifests. Using mageui.exe you