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A few miscellaneous enhancements to HttpRest for pipelining urls, and the beginning of documentation …

VERY OLD documentation on this post on HuddledMasses and I’m finally starting to update this to be an example of best practices … I guess ;)

Retrieve Online Cmdlet Help

I’m now using New-WebServiceProxy to take advantage of the well-formed XML provided by the MSDN ContentService …

A C# class (use with Add-Type -Path) that encapsulates the desktop APIs…

• Enumerate the Parameters of a command by ParameterSet, including DynamicParameters
• Now uses FormatData so the output is objects

• Added calculation of shortest names to the aliases (borrowed from Shay Levy http://poshcode.org/1982)

This is the only Get-Parameter you need ;)

This is a .ps1xml file for use with Update-TypeData … it adds methods onto the COM object for GetProperty (including support for parametrized properties), SetProperty, and InvokeMethod.

I wish this was not necessary, but it seems to be the only way to access methods on COM objects that are exposed through interfaces. For example, WindowsInstaller.Installer only works this way:

Update-TypeData -Prepend .\ComObject.Types.ps1xml
$installer = New-Object -Com WindowsInstaller.Installer
foreach($product in $installer.GetProperty("Products")) {
New-Object PSObject -Property @{
ProductName = $installer.GetProperty("ProductInfo",$product,"ProductName")
VersionString = $installer.GetProperty("ProductInfo",$product,"VersionString")
}
}

Enable .Net 4 and \\UNC path modules for PowerShell ISE by using this app.config. Save as C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell_ise.exe.config