“Notepad for PowerShell” - PowerGUI 1.0.11 is out « Dmitry’s PowerBlog: PowerShell and beyond

PowerGUI 1.0.11 is out and can be freely downloaded from PowerGUI downloads page.

This is probably one of the most community-driven releases we had. Most of the features are implementations of enhancements and fixes suggested by the PowerGUI community and the key features - stand-alone PowerShell script editor is no exception.

That’s right, now you can use the script editor we introduced in 1.0.9 not just for PowerGUI node, actions, and links but also for any ps1 files on your disk:

The editor has all you would expect:

Syntax highlight,
Intellisense for PowerShell cmdlets and cmdlet parameters,
Tooltips with syntax information,
Matching brackets, search/replace, regions,
Ability to export, run, print, etc.

And more importantly we tried to do our best to add these goodies without sacrificing the advantages of the main PowerShell editor on the market today - Windows Notepad. The script editor:

Is absolutely free (installs as one of the features of PowerGUI), and
Is very lightweight and fast.

(I know that bundling it with Windows would have been even better but I am not sure EU would have allowed us to do that. ;))

Thanks to the PowerGUI community and especially Kirk the Poshoholic and Richard Siddaway (from PowerShell UK UG) for pushing us into that direction.

15 Responses to ““Notepad for PowerShell” - PowerGUI 1.0.11 is out”

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1 halr9000 October 8, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Dmitry, this is awesome! Code folding!
2 dmitrysotnikov October 8, 2007 at 6:56 pm

Completely forgot about that one. Yep, we got it too. Thanks Hal!
3 Greg M October 9, 2007 at 6:30 am

Wow. Can’t wait to get to using this. Too cool.
4 mcgurk October 9, 2007 at 12:56 pm

Download is fuxzored.
5 dmitrysotnikov October 9, 2007 at 1:06 pm

Please try again a bit later - I’ve just downloaded myself and it worked with no issues whatsoever. I am guessing that the servers might be quite loaded because everyone is trying to get the new version.
6 Bob October 9, 2007 at 4:09 pm

It looks really cool, great job!

Bob
7 Mathieu CHATEAU October 13, 2007 at 10:30 am

PingBack from http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/2007/10/powershell-script-editor-powergui.html
8 Trevor June 26, 2008 at 5:17 pm

This is a great tool considering Powershell Analyzer is the only real competition and it costs almost $100. One question, is there any plans to improve the performance? I see a lot of lag from keystroke to appearance.

At any rate, thanks for the link!
9 dmitrysotnikov June 27, 2008 at 7:26 am

Trevor,

Any repro steps? What was it that you typed which caused the delay?

Dmitry