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Our 3rd generation PowerShell Host and Development Environment - PowerShell Plus has reached 1.0! We are doing away with the pretense of RC1, RTM etc when its not like we are releasing anything to a manufacturer to print a million CDs as we simply just release it to our web site. 

The difference between our beta and 1.0 release is our commitment to our customers. We have disabled the auto-updating functionality because we only want to push out builds that have been widely tested to customers - however for those who like to live on the edge of innovation , we will continue to give access to our latest builds. In the future also we will update our auto-updating technology to allow you to choose to update to either trusted official releases, and latest builds.

Another difference in 1.0 is now we also have a MSI installer for those inclined. We are careful however not to ostracize those of you, like us, who value a portable application that doesn’t have to have an installer and that can be run from a thumb drive if desired. Thus PowerShell Plus 1.0 has both a portable zip, and a MSI installer.

We are discontinuing selling the PowerShell Suite, but licenses for PowerShell Analyzer and the PowerShell Suite automatically work with PowerShell Plus, and PowerShell Analyzer will continue to be available to all customers as we continue to migrate important features over to PowerShell Plus 1.1

New Price

We have lowered the price to $79 - effectively giving you an Enterprise grade application for a hobbyist price. Check it out now at our Store

Additionally PS+ has a free 30 trial and beyond that it is free for non-commercial use!

Download

• Zip file - Simply Unblock the ZIP (if downloaded with IE) , unzip and run.
• MSI installer.

Videos

Check out our videos. There is our original trailer, plus a detailed video of our debugger, which is the most feature complete PowerShell debugger around - generations ahead of anything else.

Official Blog

We are moving away from PowerShellLive and centralizing everything including our forums and blogs  around www.powershell.com . Our Official Blog is now at http://blog.powershell.com

Some Screen Shots

Here are a few screenshots to whet your appetite.

1) PowerShell Plus console with GUI code completion in MiniMode.

2) PowerShell Plus Full Console with Variables, Properties and Help Center visible while inserting a snippet directly into the console.

3) PowerShell Plus editor window showing our save pipeline object code completion.

4) Editor showing some debugging, the variable inspector and console preview, as well as code completion of the file system with file icons.

Enjoy

Our home page http://www.powershell.com may have some old information of it, but now that we have 1.0 out, we’ll get that caught up soon.

Our tools PowerShell Analyzer and PowerShell Plus have been downloaded over 140,000 times. YAY. We are keen to see when it goes over 150,000 as we will soon release PowerShell Plus 1.0 as start implementing some real marketing rather than just word of mouth.

http://www.powershell.com

One of our goals is to bring the most important functionality of PowerShell Analyzer over to PowerShell plus as we consolidate into one product. Here is one example. It looks a little different than in PowerShell Analyzer , but we feel its just as useful, and it has a few new features added to it.

In PowerShell Plus you can see Variables and properties. by enabling it from the menu (Toolbars->Variables+Property) or easily toggle it with CTRL-T

You can see it has rich features where you can search and filter different variables, then when you click on one have it show up in the property grid. However we aren’t going deep into that today. we are covering the “View Current Pipeline” option

When you click this button, it toggles from showing the variables. to the actual results of the pipeline. So whenever you run something.. the actual results are shown as usual on the left as text, but also the actual dotnet objects that are returned by the command show up in the variable pane. and when you click on an item there, you can see all the properties for that particular object.

So in the above example I ran a command that on the first 5 processes in the system, and the current date. In the variable explorer you can see those 5 processes and the date and time. Also the 2nd process has been clicked on, and you can see all its properties in the property grid, including descriptions of the properties. You get to see a lot more data than PowerShell gives you as text.

You can download Powershell Plus from http://www.powershell.com

-Karl

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