PowerShell SnippetRace 45-48/2024

AIShell, 7.5, REST and JSON

Events

  • Steven Bucher and Jason Helmick from the PowerShell Engineering Team join us for the PowerShell Usergroup Austria Quarterly Februar 11th 2025. Stay tuned for details – this will be 60 minutes of feature oacked news from the world of your favorite one-liners.
  • ExpertsLive Austria Conference 2025 – June 18th 2025. Watch www.expertslive.at for more.

Snippets

PowerShell 7.5 is in Preview (RC-1)

.NET 9 is the foundation of PowerShell 7.5, and its sitting in ins start-box, ready to be released most likely January 2025. The most interesting news are:

  • PSResourceGet now supports ACR as a container gallery
  • PSReadLine ==> v 2.3.6
  • Better Tab-Completion
  • CliXml Commandlets are back

As support for version 7.2 will end this november, be sure you run at least a long-term release 7.4 of newer. More from the PowerShell engineering team can be found here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-7-5-rc-1-is-now-available/

AIShell is in Public preview

Already using Github Copilot/Azure OpenAI Agent or ChatGPT for programming? Well, the PowerShell enginerering team has released the first version of AIShell, a sidewindow with interation possibilities with the main shell and AI support. Steven Bucher presented it on Ignite 2025 and it works already pretty well. If you are using PowerShell on the commandline, you should really give this a try.
Read the full blogpost with short videos and explanaitions here Link.

REST-APIs are all areound us – learn how to query them with Powershell

REST-APIs are everywhere, in cloud services, they are used from APPs and many applications start building their own REST-API´s to be part of the game.
Learn how to easily access this data-treasure with Powershell by reading Adam Bertrams blog on „How to query REST-APIs with Powershell„.

JSON JSON JSON

Once you have understood the JavaScript Object Notation, you for sure gona love it. JSON is easy to read for a human, many tools support writing it and you can create JSON files and fill it with complex data structures without getting lost by complexity. PowerShell has quite good JSON support, so read Adam Bertrams blog on „How to work with JSON in PowerShell„.

Happy coding !

R.

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