DuPSUG had another Meetup event scheduled, which was changed from in-person to virtual on December 3rd, where I gave a session on how to code PowerShell scripts from anywhere. 🙂 In this blog post, I will highlight a few key points from the session.
What is the Dutch PowerShell User Group?
“The Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) is a vibrant community dedicated to advancing knowledge and expertise in PowerShell, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Cloud Infrastructure.
Our Mission
We are committed to fostering a collaborative environment where IT professionals, developers, and system administrators can:
Collaborate on projects and solutions
Learn the latest PowerShell techniques and best practices
Share knowledge and real-world experiences
Network with like-minded professionals”
Source: DuPSUG – Dutch PowerShell User Group
It’s back again after quite some time, and I’m happy that it’s there again! Jaap Brasser | LinkedIn, Leo Visser | LinkedIn, and Jeff Wouters | LinkedIn were the organizers and… Since yesterday, I’m also part of the team 😀
My session
From idea to session
I got the idea of creating a session about the different ways you can code/debug/run your scripts because of my new job 🙂 Since October, I have been working for InSpark, and their Windows machines have some security features enabled, which makes storing things like your PowerShell profile, Modules, etc, somewhat of a hassle. Which is good, security-wise, but makes coding a bit more challenging for me.
So I checked different options, some better than others, and my session is about using those options and their advantages/disadvantages.
Options for PowerShell coding
I started highlighting them all. Unfortunately, I did run into some local issues for WSL and Windows Sandbox because of unexpected networking issues, but I was able to show and explain them all 🙂 And they were, in no particular order, as follows: (Some have a link to my corresponding blog post(s))
- PowerShell ISE
- Notepad ++
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio Code connected to Windows Sandbox
- Visual Studio Code Dev Containers
- Visual Studio connected to Windows Subsystem for Linux instances
- GitHub CodeSpaces in Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio Code connected to a Linux VM using SSH
- VSCode.dev
- Azure CloudShell in a browser
- Azure CloudShell in a Docker container locally connected using Visual Studio Code
- PSEdit
They can all edit scripts, but not all of them have IntelliSense, Colored highlighting, or the option to run/debug scripts. Some are more difficult to configure, can be stateless or stateful, run on Linux or Windows, be fast or slow, etc. But there’s a use-case for all of them, small or big 😉
Recording
Because it was a Virtual event, a Teams recording is available on our DuPSUG – YouTube. It’s not there yet, but keep an eye out for it in the upcoming days! (And for more content in the future, Like and Subscribe 😀 )
Note: On the channel, you will find a session recorded with Jeffrey Snover from 11 years ago!
Jeff Wouters’s session
The second session was done by Jeff Wouters, “PowerShell’s Hidden Treasure Chest: The .NET Data Types You Didn’t Know You Needed”. Nice session with lots of insight and showing different ways to do things more efficiently, more programming-like things that I don’t do myself in PowerShell, but I like to learn new things! You can also watch his session on the same YouTube channel mentioned above.
Wrapping up
And that was my first DuPSUG event as a speaker, but also the first event in the organization. (Thanks again for having me on board, Jaap, Leo, and Jeff!) Have a lovely weekend!
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