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Product Review: PowerShell Plus Professional Edition
By: Don Jones

A couple of years ago, Microsoft MVP award winner Dr. Tobias Weltner released an early beta of what he called PowerShellIDE, a graphical development environment for Windows PowerShell. Building on his VBScript-centric SystemScripter product, PowerShellIDE offered a good editing experience for PowerShell users. At close to the same time, fellow MVP Karl Prosser was working on PowerShellAnalyzer, a product that offered a more interactive PowerShell experience through an alternate console host rather than an editor. Weltner and Prosser joined forces to create ShellTools LLC, which then began working on PowerShellPlus, which offers both an improved interactive console and a full IDE--sort of a combination between the two separate projects. Now, Idera, known for their data management tools focused on SQL Server and SharePoint, is working with Weltner to offer PowerShellPlus Professional Edition. As of this writing, the product is not generally available, but I was offered a first look at it. Since it's based on the already-released and stable PowerShellPlus, it's pretty ready for "prime time." Idera's worked with Weltner to make a bunch of usability changes, consolidating similar functionality into one place, and so forth--really just polishing the product very nicely. There's also a new Learning Center, which includes tutorials and other useful educational information...

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