Category Archives: Powershell

UPDATE: The source and installer for this task can now be found at Codeplex: http://powershellmsbuild.codeplex.com/  I have written an MSBuild task that hosts a Powershell runspace and allows you to embed Powershell scripts in your MSBuild build files. While MSBuild … Continue reading →

  As I posted on Monday, Powershell doesn’t let you cast a scriptblock to a delegate with a signature other than void (Object, Object). Jeffrey Snover confirmed this the same day. When I learned that this was a limitation in … Continue reading →

I was asked the other day how to handle authentication in NSvn with Powershell. The scripts I’ve shown up until now([1], [2] have used the NSvn.Core.AuthenticationProvider.GetWindowsSimpleProvider() method to provide authentication when required by Subversion. Subversion uses a concept of “authentication … Continue reading →

All NSvn.Core.Client methods that modify the repository directly require a log message. These include MakeDir, Commit, Import, Move, PropDel, PropEdit and PropSet. To provide a log message using NSvn, you need to handle the Client.LogMessage event and set the Message … Continue reading →

VS.NET installs a shortcut that, when invoked, sets the necessary environment variables you need to access the command line tools that comes with VS and the .NET and brings up a command prompt. The shortcut leads to a batch file … Continue reading →

Scott Hanselman posts an interesting script where he uses the NSvn library (the .NET wrapper library for Subversion we wrote for AnkhSVN) directly from Powershell to either checkout from a Subversion repository or update an existing working copy. This is … Continue reading →

Windows Powershell allows the user to customize the behavior of TAB expansion/completion on the command line by replacing the default TabExpansion function. The following is a Powershell script that adds TAB completion for svn.exe subcommands and their associated options. It … Continue reading →