MVP Summit 2011

Testing out my first WordPress blog post after the switch from Windows Live Spaces (sniff, I will miss you) to WordPress.  Regarding the MVP Summit last week, I can"™t really talk about much due to just about everything being NDA, NDA, NDA!  I will say that I"™m excited about the future of PowerShell!  Probably the most fun part was hanging out with the other PowerShell MVPs for a week.

It seems to me that Microsoft still values their relationship with the MVPs as evidenced by the party they arranged for MVPs last Wednesday:

Make-PS1ExeWrapper

Occasionally folks want to be able to create an EXE from PoweShell.  PowerShell can"™t do this by itself but this can be done with PowerShell script.  Essentially what you can do is create a simple console EXE program that embeds the script as a resource and the EXE, upon loading retrieves the script and throws it at a PowerShell runspace to execute.  Here"™s the script for a feasibility test of doing this very thing.

Episode 105 – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Keith Hill & Oisin Grehan about PSCX 2.0

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