Microsoft has released the PowerShell Script Browser. This free tool will make it easier for users to find and use script samples when writing scripts to automate Microsoft products like Windows, Office, etc.
Microsoft PowerShell Script Browser
Some of you may remember that Microsoft had released Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, to help scripters find Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, modules, and how-to guidance in online repositories such as the PoshCode, local or network file systems, TechNet Script Center Repository, and Bing Search Repository, but due to lack of adoption, it wasn’t developed further and subsequently discontinued.
Find and use PowerShell Script samples
The recently released Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE, now lets you search for over 9000 script samples that are available in the TechNet Script Center – and all this from within the scripting environment itself.
For those you may not know, the Microsoft TechNet Script Center helps system administrators, scripters and enthusiasts learn how to use Windows PowerShell and reduce time spent performing mundane, repetitive tasks using scripts.
We have already seen how we can use readymade scripts from Microsoft Script Center to fix Windows Store apps crashing issues, Remove multiple Windows Store apps using Powershell, etc., earlier. The Script Browser, apart from helping you search for script samples, also lets you bookmark script samples as favorites, so that you may download them for later use. It also includes a new pilot function called the Script Analyzer.
Script Browsers download
If you are a Scripting guy, you want to download these Script Browsers from Codeplex:
- Microsoft Script Browser: Download page on scriptbrowser.codeplex.com.
- Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE: Download page on scriptbrowserforise.codeplex.com.
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