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SeeminglyScience / Get-InstalledSoftware.ps1

Created August 12, 2019 19:23

	using namespace System.Collections.Generic
	using namespace System.Management.Automation
	using namespace System.Security.AccessControl
	using namespace Microsoft.Win32

	function Get-InstalledSoftware {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param(
	[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
	[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]

SeeminglyScience / Invoke-Conditional.ps1

Created June 14, 2019 15:49

SeeminglyScience / Enter-PSSessionWithEdit.ps1

Last active May 4, 2023 03:27

Proof of concept for "psedit" working outside of PSES.

	function Enter-PSSessionWithEdit {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param(
	[Parameter(Mandatory)]
	[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
	[string] $ComputerName
	)
	end {
	$enterEventName = 'RemoteSessionEditor.Enter'
	if (-not $Host.Runspace.Events.GetEventSubscribers($enterEventName)) {

SeeminglyScience / gist:e8b0e1ef0673a288b7b67916e8303d99

Last active February 21, 2018 01:46

Working list of issues that can be closed after PSReadLine changes

	PSReadLine
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/535
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/569
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/1027
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/815
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/785
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/550
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/873
	https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/998

SeeminglyScience / PlatformUnix.cs

Last active January 31, 2018 23:52

Unsuccessful proof of concept for fixing Unix Console.ReadKey without native binaries.

	using System;
	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

	namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Internal
	{
	internal class PlatformUnix
	{
	// termios
	private const int STDIN_FILENO = 0; // File descriptor for Standard Input.
	private const int NCCS = 64; // Size of the array c_cc for control characters.

SeeminglyScience / Get-ActiveTranscriptPath.ps1

Created November 22, 2017 22:21

Gets the path of active transcripts for the current runspace. Utilizes unsupported code, use at your own risk.

	function Get-ActiveTranscriptPath {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param()
	end {
	$flags = [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]'Instance, NonPublic'
	$transcriptionData = $Host.Runspace.GetType().
	GetProperty('TranscriptionData', $flags).
	GetValue($Host.Runspace)

	$transcripts = $transcriptionData.GetType().

SeeminglyScience / New-PowerShellApp.ps1

Created October 14, 2017 18:29

Very simple example of creating a silent executable that runs a PowerShell script

	function New-PowerShellApp {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param([string]$FilePath, [string]$Script)
	end {
	$Script = $Script -replace '"', '""'

	Add-Type -OutputType WindowsApplication -OutputAssembly $FilePath -TypeDefinition @"
	using System.Management.Automation;

	namespace SilentPowerShell

SeeminglyScience / Show-PSStateTree.ps1

Created September 30, 2017 18:31

	$typeDefinition = @'
	using System;
	using System.Management.Automation;
	using System.Reflection;

	namespace PSStateTree.Commands
	{
	[OutputType(typeof(StateTreeInfo))]
	[Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.Show, "PSStateTree")]
	public class ShowPSStateTreeCommand : PSCmdlet

SeeminglyScience / PSReadlineCommandPalette.ps1

Last active July 31, 2017 02:52

POC VSCode style Command Palette for PSReadline

	#requires -Version 5.1 -Module @{ModuleName = 'PSReadline'; RequiredVersion=1.2}

	function Invoke-CommandPalette {
	param(
	[System.Nullable[System.ConsoleKeyInfo]] $key,
	[object] $arg
	)
	end {
	# Save the current buffer, cursor position, selection range and selection command count to
	# be restored after the command is found.

SeeminglyScience / TSQLParserExample.ps1

Created July 27, 2017 02:39

TSQL Parser Example

	# This should be included in SQL server if you have it installed, but I don't on this machine.
	$package = Find-Package Microsoft.SqlServer.TransactSql.ScriptDom -Source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2
	$package \| Save-Package -Path $PWD
	$fileBaseName = $package.Name + '.' + $package.Version
	Rename-Item "$fileBaseName.nupkg" "$fileBaseName.zip"
	Expand-Archive "$fileBaseName.zip"
	Add-Type -Path $fileBaseName\lib\net40\Microsoft.SqlServer.TransactSql.ScriptDom.dll

	# Example from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/select-examples-transact-sql
	$tSqlSample = @'

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