Idera PowerShellPlus Version 5.0 Released |
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Written by Darwin Sanoy |
Friday, October 24, 2014 6:59am |
The free Idera PowerShellPlus remains my go to PowerShell editor for the unique combination of features it has... I maintain a large PowerShell code library for my team. If I am just fixing a quick script, the PowerShell ISE 3.0 is sufficient. However, if I'm in for several hours of code updates - then Idera has a handful of key features that make a big difference:
Even though Idera made the product free, it has continued to advertise and improve it in small increments. Version 5.0 has the following enhancements and changes:
As of this release PowerShellPlus requires your machine to have PowerShell 3.0. If you have to support PowerShell 2.0 with your scripts, it will be important to test on 2.0. Much of the sample code on the web now reflects the 3.0 language - which means it can need adjustment to run under 2.0. In regard to testing your code in all your target execution environments, our Mini-course "PowerShell for the Enteprise Desktop: Quick Tips, Tricks & Ready To Run Code" has one lesson that contains the code for configuring many shell extensions for .PS1 files. It has options for every combination of "admin/non-admin", "32-bit/64-bit" and "Version 2 / Version Latest". Check it out at elearning.CSI-Windows.com
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