AutoPowerShell

In this version I've added a snippet that runs out to the webpage once per application invocation to check for a newer version. You can disable this behavior by the new check box in the options dialog. You can also invoke this check manually from the About dialog. It will only check for now, i hope to add some auto updating capability in the future. I'm also going to start releasing two installation files here, the new one is called APS_Setup_Silent and it will not make you click anything to install the program.

The other interesting change in this version is that all of the APS scripts now have access to an $autopowershell variable in their runspace. Currently the only method of $autopowershell is 'notify' which shows a balloon message over the autopowershell tray icon. I'll add some more features in the next few build releases. Give me a shout if you have any requests for functionality.

Issue #28 was trivial to fix. Issue #29 was trickier; it's been bugging me for a while how slow the built in code editor was. After I ran it through a profiler (jetBrains dotTrace profiler... its neat) i had a forehead slap moment and by moving two lines improved performance 30%.

There was a problem with the way I was looking for the version of powershell. This should be repaired now. If it was broken for you that problem may also have broken the uninstaller, you'll just need to drop the 1.0.74.0 version of autopowershell.exe into the program directory (overwriting the old one) and then it will work.

This version has a new Built in Code Editor. The editor is a tad slow, it needs to be retooled a bit. I'm using a hosted WPF RichTextBox in the winform, same as for the new script wizard. Also we add a new toolbar to the button launcher that exposes some of the most frequently used command from the main right click menu.

There is a better design for the new script wizard in this version.

These were buried a little bit in the wiki, check out these for an idea of what you get with this:

http://autopowershell.com/wiki/autops/Screenshots

This version has a new script wizard in it that exposes less of the properties that are required for making of a script. The wizard has a text control that does syntax highlighting for powershell.

The first version of AutoPowerShell is ready for release. There are a few rough edges still, I'm documenting these as I find them on the Issues tab.

The MSI file for installation is available under the Files tab.

There are a few caveats... be sure to install powershell first, at the moment APS is only compatible with Version 2 of powershell. This is a 32 bit release, so please keep this in mind if you plan to run it on a 64 bit machine. I've tested on Vista 64 and didn't notice too many problems except that there is a separate execution policy for 32 bit and 64 bit applications. Scripts that are internal to AutoPowerShell don't count as external scripts so they can run under a restricted policy so you may not notice at first, but if it becomes a problem then run AutoPowerShell as admin and use it to set the 32 bit execution policy to what you need.

I've tested on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Windows 2000 shouldn't have any problems as long as all of the updates are applied. And .NET 3.5 is installed.

Please post issues as you find them, I'll fix these ASAP. Registration Codes are available at http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=6FGYS_LIVE&x%x%