Though we don’t have intentions to carry developing PowerShell Analyzer much in the future, there are a number of improvements in my personal fork, and we want to make sure that it keeps its shelf life by updating it for PowerShell V2. Surprisingly we are still getting hundreds of downloads a day so we want to make sure that those who prefer PSA can still keep using it and also take advantage of the features I use day in and day out. We’ll probably release some new builds within the next couple of weeks, but will post some screenshots and maybe videos until then. We hope that will minimal effort keep PSA the best free PowerShell tool. Read more below to see the screenshots and examples

PowerShell CTP3 ISE - Integrated Scripting environment has inherited many ideas and features from PowerShell analyzer including multiple runspaces,editors, a smaller immediate input area and output pane, however it doesn’t have the output visualizers of PSA nor the super fast RTS like execution control of PSA.

However Microsoft in their wisdom has made ISE rather extensible through the $PSISE variable, and many people already have added some very cool functionality to ISE through these.

When I first demo’d what was then MSH analyzer to Microsoft back in the first few months of 2006, the feature that seemed to stand out the most to the team was the ability to select an area of code and just run that. Thankfully that level of execution control is now in ISE as F6, but I wanted more, so i’m going to share with you a script that build a few months ago to add a couple of features.

F7 run the current physical line.