Huddled Masses » Adaptive Type System http://huddledmasses.org You can do more than breathe for free... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:42:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 PowerShell 2 CTP3 – Custom Accelerators, Finally! http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-2-ctp3-custom-accelerators-finally/ http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-2-ctp3-custom-accelerators-finally/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:28:38 +0000 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-2-ctp3-custom-accelerators-finally/ Have I mentioned lately how much Oisin Grehan (a.k.a.: x0n) rocks? He discovered that in PowerShell 2 we can now define our own custom type accelerators. A “Type Accelerator” is the thing that lets you write [regex] instead of [System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex], and they save a lot of typing, but in order to keep the name space clean, there aren’t very many of them predefined right now.

Thanks to Oisin’s discovery, I’ve written a module to make it trivially easy to create your own custom type accelerators in PowerShell 2. I’ll add a few more details here in the morning, and I’ll probably add a simulation of a “using” statement to the script (although you’ll practically never want to use it), but for now, here’s the script … the new CTP3 Get-Help will tell you everything you need to know.

Maybe I should try that New-CommandBlogPost thing that James has been hawking over on the PowerShell team blog…

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