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PowerShell Plus 1.0 Soft Launch

karl — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:41:00 GMT

Our 3rd generation PowerShell Host and Development Environment - PowerShell Plus has reached 1.0! We are doing away with the pretense of RC1, RTM etc when its not like we are releasing anything to a manufacturer to print a million CDs as we simply just release it to our web site.

The difference between our beta and 1.0 release is our commitment to our customers. We have disabled the auto-updating functionality because we only want to push out builds that have been widely tested to customers - however for those who like to live on the edge of innovation , we will continue to give access to our latest builds. In the future also we will update our auto-updating technology to allow you to choose to update to either trusted official releases, and latest builds.

Another difference in 1.0 is now we also have a MSI installer for those inclined. We are careful however not to ostracize those of you, like us, who value a portable application that doesn't have to have an installer and that can be run from a thumb drive if desired. Thus PowerShell Plus 1.0 has both a portable zip, and a MSI installer.

We are discontinuing selling the PowerShell Suite, but licenses for PowerShell Analyzer and the PowerShell Suite automatically work with PowerShell Plus, and PowerShell Analyzer will continue to be available to all customers as we continue to migrate important features over to PowerShell Plus 1.1

New Price

We have lowered the price to $79 - effectively giving you an Enterprise grade application for a hobbyist price. Check it out now at our Store

Additionally PS+ has a free 30 trial and beyond that it is free for non-commercial use!

Download

Zip file - Simply Unblock the ZIP (if downloaded with IE) , unzip and run.
MSI installer.

Videos

Check out our videos. There is our original trailer, plus a detailed video of our debugger, which is the most feature complete PowerShell debugger around - generations ahead of anything else.

Official Blog

We are moving away from PowerShellLive and centralizing everything including our forums and blogs around www.powershell.com . Our Official Blog is now at http://blog.powershell.com

Some Screen Shots

Here are a few screenshots to whet your appetite.

1) PowerShell Plus console with GUI code completion in MiniMode.

2) PowerShell Plus Full Console with Variables, Properties and Help Center visible while inserting a snippet directly into the console.

3) PowerShell Plus editor window showing our save pipeline object code completion.

4) Editor showing some debugging, the variable inspector and console preview, as well as code completion of the file system with file icons.

Enjoy

Our home page http://www.powershell.com may have some old information of it, but now that we have 1.0 out, we'll get that caught up soon.

PowerShell Analyzer 1.0 and PowerShell Plus Beta Available for free.

karl — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:08:00 GMT

PowerShell Analyzer 1.0 is finally released. For a week or two we consider this a "soft" launch, just in case there is some major issue that eluded our testing, but we are pretty confident its stable.

Additionally, if you have already used your 45 Day trial, we have EXTENDED it another 45 days.

PowerShell Plus is now available with a 45 Day trial as well, and Additionally its available fully free for Non Commercial use as well.

So download both of these today and Enjoy

PowerShell Analyzer Screen-shots.

To get a grasp of what PowerShell Plus can do, Check out its trailer. its about 4 minutes, and definitely worth the time in our opinion.

Technorati Tags: Powershell Analyzer,Powershell Plus,Powershell Debugging

Automatic PowerShell Error Parsing in PowerShell Analyzer and PowerShell Plus

karl — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:13:00 GMT

Powershell Analyzer 1.0 (which we intend on releasing by the end of November) and the latest beta of Powershell Plus have manual and automatic PowerShell language parsing, without even having to run your scripts!

Here is a small screenshot from Powershell Analyzer.

and while Powershell Plus has a complete and traditional steppable debugger, Powershell Analyzer 1.0 contains a new twist on a debugger, that we feel might be more "powershelly". Stay tuned. Just a few of the things we are doing to help you be more productive and agile in your PowerShell work.

And just a reminder, Powershell Analyzer and Powershell Plus have been combined together into one purchase, called PowerShell Suite. Existing PowerShell Analyzer customers automatically get a free upgrade.

The ShellTools Team.

Powershell Plus is now available.

karl — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:16:00 GMT

Shell Tools has made the Beta of Powershell Plus available exclusively to owners of Powershell Analyzer, and once PS+ goes RTM, Customers will have the best deal – whether it be a free edition, or a nominal “upgrade/cross grade” is yet to be decided.

Simply use your Powershell Analyzer license file throughout the beta lifecycle and enjoy. Existing Customers should have already received an email with download instructions and various information and tips.

Prospective customers may purchase Powershell Analyzer at the store http://www.powershell.com/store

For more information check out a trailer of Powershell Plus at http://www.powershell.com/plus

Powershell Analyzer SALE and Powershell Plus

karl — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:40:00 GMT

Powershell Analyzer 1.0 will is planned to be officially released next week and the pre-release sale price will be expiring on Oct 1st, So if you are interested in this product, Now is the time to buy for only $79

http://www.powershell.com/store

Additionally the beta of Powershell Plus will be made availible to Powershell Analyzer customers by October the 15th.

For clarity Powershell Plus is a separate product that Powershell Analzyer and we have not yet decided on a price. However the following can be certain:

Powershell Analyzer customers will have almost exclusive access to Powershell Plus during its Beta lifecycle.
When Powershell Plus is released – Existing Powershell Analyzer customers will get the best deal – Most likely a nominal “Cross-grade” license purchase.
After Powershell Plus is released there will be combo packs of Powershell Analyzer/Powershell Plus.

You can check out some more details and see the trailer at http://www.powershell.com/plus

Additionally Technet Magazine wrote up Powershell Analyzer in their toolbox section. You can read it on their online edition at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/10/Toolbox/default.aspx

Powershell Plus Trailer Released

karl — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:20:00 GMT

Power Plus is a new product being made by ShellTools. It extends the windows Console, offering a true windows console experience but adding features such as transparency, expanded hotkey handling, dynamic resizing of screen buffer and fonts, Unicode font support.

Additionally and more importantly it’s a complete Powershell Host. A great alternative to powershell.exe and it provides IDE like code/tab completion, an editor and a debugger and much much more.

Check out the trailer and details at http://www.powershell.com/plus

Currently the product is only in closed beta, but soon we will be giving access to customers of Powershell Analyzer which you can find out more info about at http://www.powershell.com/analyzer or watch a demo of at http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/demos . If you wish to purchase Powershell Analyzer at the currently discounted price of $79 head over to the store at http://www.powershell.com/store

Powershell Community Extentions (PSCX) bug crashing Powershell Analyzer.

karl — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:08:00 GMT

There is a bug in Powershell Community extensions, which I believe will be fixed in their next release, that under certain circumstances (including running in Powershell Analyzer, or in conjunction with certain snap-ins like /N software cmdlets) will crash. Basically it’s a simple exception not being trapped, however its running on another thread. Anyhow if this is causing you problems with Powershell Analyzer. Look for the profile.ps1 files that thePSCX install modifies, and place the # character at the start of the line that says “start-tabcompletion” , and that will skip pass the faulty PSCX code and Powershell Analyzer should run perfectly fine.

Much appreciate and admiration to the Powershell CX folks and all they do.

Sincerely,
The ShellTools Team.

PSCX + PSA RC2 ISSUES

karl — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:30:00 GMT

We have isolated a problem that causes PSA RC2 to crash when you are using it with Powershell Community Extentions. It seems that there is something in the code of PSCX’s start-tabexpansion cmdlet that bombs an error that’s not even able to be caught when called from inside PSA regardless of whether you call it in the profile or ad-hoc interactively. It also only happens with our protected versions of PSA. We will try to isolate what exactly inside start-tabexpansion is causing this and see what we can do to fix it. In the meantime I just suggest you editor your profile and #comment out the line that calls start-tabexpansion and all should be ok.

Sincerely,
The ShellTools Team.

Powershell Analyzer RC2 is tentatively released.

karl — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:26:00 GMT

Powershell Analyzer RC2 is tentatively released.

http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/downloads/PowershellAnalyzerRC2.zip

This contains the final licensing scheme and defaults to a 45 day trial. If there are no significant issues, this will rapidly be turned around and released as version 1.0

Please Note that the website still only mentions RC1, but the download has been replaced with RC2. We will update the websites within a couple of days, and increase the price. So if you want to get Powershell Analyzer at the all time low price of $59 then today is the day to buy

Sincerely,

Karl Prosser , Tobias Weltner and the rest of the ShellTools Team.

Powershell Analyzer RC2 Almost Released!

karl — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:54:00 GMT

We are finalizing a few more rounds of tests then RC2 is out. RC2 mostly has a lot of bug fixes, and implements a new protection and licensing system. The reason for the intense tests is that though we are very confident in the functionality and stability of the application itself, as the protect techniques modify the code after the build, we want to be sure that process doesn’t introduce any issues. If there are not major issues, RC2 will quickly be turned around into RTM. In the unlikely event that there are issues, Customers still have access to a Customer Only Build protected in the old scheme that doesn’t expire until the end of the year. The current discount of more than 50% will be gone any day now. Get in quick and buy now for only $59

Shelltools Spam getting lost in Spam Filters

karl — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:36:00 GMT

A number of customers didn’t’ seem to receive the email we sent that contained information for them to get the latest version. It seems that spammers are impersonating at least one of our domains @powershell.com, and maybe also @powershellanalyzer.com . Later customers should already get the latest Customer Only builds when they purchase, but if you are a customer and haven’t received an email with the download instructions, please email us at support at powershellanalyzer dot com.

We apologize for the inconvenience,

The Shelltools Team.

Powershell Analyzer Customer Only Build Released

karl — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:49:00 GMT

We have released a build for customers, its not quite RC2, but we wanted to make sure our customers had time to upgrade before RC1 Expires. Future customers will get the new build automatically from the store and existing customers have received an email today.

RC2 is just around the corner and we will start raising the price towards the full retail price soon. If RC2 proves not to have any serious bugs, then it 1.0 will follow briskly on its heel.

Sincerely,

The Shelltools Team.

4th of July Sale: Powershell Analyzer only $47.07

karl — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:50:00 GMT

We are joining the throng of merchants cheapening our democracy with shameless commercialism.

So, today only. You can buy Powershell Analyzer for only $47.07 . I know the date format 4/7/07 is decidedly non American, but would you rather pay $74.07 ?

http://www.powershell.com/store

Buy now and declare your independence from the windows console subsystem, and enter into the freedom of agile powershell scripting.

That's a discount of over 63%

PowerShell industry leaders join forces and offer a 50% + discount on our first product – PowerShell Analyzer

karl — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:21:00 GMT

Shell Tools wants to officially announce that sometime ago Dr. Tobias Weltner (MVP) , author of the award winning "System Scripter" VBScript Editor, has joined Shell Tools bringing with him his extensive experience and "PowerShellIDE" technology.

We have been working closely together on our flagship product – PowerShell Analyzer, our extensive PowerShell Debugger, a community portal and some very exciting PowerShell related projects that we will disclose more about in the near future.

PowerShell Analyzer Release Candidate 1 has been available for a number of months now, and has received much positive feedback and we are very close to releasing version 1.0
You can now pre-order PowerShell Analyzer for a low price of $59 , less than half of the introductory price of $129. Order now, this price will only last until we release version 1.0 !

Purchasing the pre-release version of PowerShell Analyzer will also give you the following benefits:
Full access to use the Release Candidate of PowerShell Analyzer in a production environment
Access to beta releases
Access to the customer support forum, where a staff member will reply to your questions within 24 hours
Email support if you do not want your question to be seen by others
Free updates of PowerShell Analyzer for 1 year from the day the full version of 1.0 is released
Feature request priority
You will be receiving PowerShell Analyzer for less than half the retail price.

Additionally only customers will have access to the Beta versions of our next exciting product.

for more information. Check out our Store, or watch a video of some of the features.

Sincerely,

The Shell Tools Team

PowerShell Analyzer RC1 Released

karl — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:06:00 GMT

PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has now been released. Download it here. There isn’t significant rnew functioanlity other than some new hotkeys. The main aspects of this release are numerous bug fixes.

Below is the partial change log.

Refactoring for stability
Changed Expiry Date to August 1
Fixed bugs that made it not work with PSCX 1.1 (profile wise)
Fixed bugs in Provider Explorer that made filters crash PSA.
Fixed a provider explorer bug, that showed one less item than there really was (i.e it didn’t show the last alias)
Certain help for third party cmdlets (namely exchange) would crash the program when trying to render the rich help. I haven’t been able to replicate this, however change the program to deal with this gracefully if it does happen.
Ctrl-E now toggles focus between console and editor.
Changed logo , and splash screen
Result explorer – default view, now will update property grid with the value of the row you are on. (similar to how the hyrachical view worked before)
F4 toggles visibility of property grid
Changed the included Iron Python from Version 1.0 to Version 1.1
Add PSLIVE webchat link on menu.

PowerShell Analyzer home page

Enjoy.

ShellTools Blog

PowerShell Plus 1.0 Soft Launch

PowerShell Analyzer 1.0 and PowerShell Plus Beta Available for free.

PowerShell Analyzer 1.0 - Direct Download

PowerShell Plus Beta - Direct Download

Automatic PowerShell Error Parsing in PowerShell Analyzer and PowerShell Plus

Powershell Plus is now available.

Powershell Analyzer SALE and Powershell Plus

Powershell Plus Trailer Released

Powershell Community Extentions (PSCX) bug crashing Powershell Analyzer.

PSCX + PSA RC2 ISSUES

Powershell Analyzer RC2 is tentatively released.

Powershell Analyzer RC2 Almost Released!

Shelltools Spam getting lost in Spam Filters

Powershell Analyzer Customer Only Build Released

4th of July Sale: Powershell Analyzer only $47.07

PowerShell industry leaders join forces and offer a 50% + discount on our first product – PowerShell Analyzer

PowerShell Analyzer RC1 Released