PsxUtility

Extended Utilities for PowerShell

Version: v2.1.3 Release: 4-LOM

Major.Minor.Build
  |     |     |_____ Small fixes
  |     |___________ New features, publish to PowerShell gallery
  |_________________ Major ship releases

What is PsxUtility?

PxsUtility is a project for creating extended Utilities for PowerShell wrapping common functionality on xUtility module. This module is available for download from the PowerShell Gallery

Available Utilities

• Retry Block with Retry Policy Cmdlet
  • Invoke-ScriptBlockWithRetry
  • New-RetryPolicy
• Execution block with Expiring Cache Cmdlets.
  • Add-ExpiringCacheItem
  • Get-ExpiringCacheItem
  • Remove-ExpiringCacheItem
• Custom and Extensible Prompt.
  • Set-Prompt
• Window Title Cmdlets.
  • Set-Title
• Window Transparency Cmdlet.
  • Set-ConsoleTransparency
• Window Resizing Cmdlet.
  • Get-WindowSize
  • Set-WindowSize
• Admin Detection and Elevation.
  • Test-AdminRights
  • Invoke-PSCommand
• Enable symbolic link behavior.
  • Set-SymbolicLinkBehavior
• General utilities.
  • Start-SublimeText
• Display formatting cmdlets: Coloring words, rows
  • New-ConsoleColorSet
  • Out-ColorFormat
• Check for updates
• Inline progress function
• [ ]Additional Package Manager(?)

How to get it:

• xUtility in the PowerShell Gallery

PS> Install-Module -Name xUtility
PS> Import-Module -Name xUtility

TO DO Items:

• Report upstream logging/analytics from all cmdlets
• Add post documentation for the multiple features
• Repository and plugins for customizable prompts

• Users are able to discover and install custom prompts with provided cmdlets
• Provide few examples like Git based custom prompts
• Users are able to contribute to repository

• Format-Table equivalent with real-time user provided updates
• Write tests
• Retry policy objects should be classes now

Additional features will be added over time

Change Log

Version - Release - Description
------- - ------- - ------------
2.1.3   - 4-LOM   - Disabling ConfigHive to avoid compatibility issues
2.1.2   - 4-LOM   - Custom prompt is optional, integration with ConfigHive, checks for newer PS Versions
2.1.1   - 4-LOM   - Updated New-ConsoleColorSet and Out-ColorFormat, initial introduction of class based Retry policies
2.1.0   - 4-LOM   - Minor fixes released for PowerShell gallery
2.0.8   - 2-1B    - Created OS-independent functions for getting Temp and AppData folders
2.0.7   - 2-1B    - Fixed pre-load script logic
2.0.6   - 2-1B    - Custom error class
2.0.5   - 2-1B    - Updated expiring cache to support custom cache refresh triggering via [ScriptBlock]
2.0.4   - 2-1B    - Fixed path composition logic, coloring for Linux terminals
2.0.3   - 2-1B    - Check for null before attempting to use the variable
2.0.2   - 2-1B    - Initial fixes to enhance compatibility with Linux OS
2.0.1   - 2-1B    - Check for updates periodically, Write-InlineProgress cmdlet
2.0.0   - 2-1B    - Support for MacOS in addition to Windows OS