June, 2014

We are very grateful to the Windows PowerShell MVPs Kirk Munro and Laurent Dardenne for providing lots of great ideas to enhance the Script Browser & Script Analyzer in the past 3 weeks.   Today, we are releasing the 1.3 update thanks to their suggestions. The team is committed to making the apps useful. Your feedback is very important to us.
 

Download Script Browser & Script Analyzer 1.3 
(If you have already installed an earlier version of Script Browser & Script Analyzer, you will get an update notification when you launch Windows PowerShell ISE.)

1. Support Sub-Categories in Search Filters

You can select sub categories in the Filters now!  In the following example, I selected Windows Azure / Automation sub category to look for all Azure automation script samples.

2. Save the Search Filters.

If you have some filter combination that you would like to use very often, you can save the search.

After saving the search, you can easily revisit the search in Saved Filters.

3. Add the support of ‘PowerShell Workflow’ scripts in the Script Browser.

4. In Script Analyzer, switching the code tab will no longer trigger the script analysis automatically

This change is based on the following user feedback and the discussion with MVPs. 

https://scriptanalyzer.codeplex.com/workitem/1130

5. Other UI enhancements:

a) Reduce the height of search result in the search result list, so that user can see more search results on the screen.

b) Make it more obvious how to close the Filter option with the ‘Apply Filters’ button.

We sincerely suggest you give the new Script Browser & Script Analyzer a try (click here to download). If you love what you see in Script Browser & Script Analyzer, please recommend it to your friends and colleagues. If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions for us, please contact us at onescript@microsoft.com. Your precious opinions and comments are more than welcome.

Thanks to Satoru Kitabata, we get the chance to introduce the Script Browser and Script Analyzer application to the Japan IT community.

Here is a newly released MSDN article introducing how to use the Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE in Japanese.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/dn770154

The following article introduces the Script Analyzer usage.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/dn770155

Script Download:  
The script is available for download in Microsoft Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE. You need to install the Script Browser application first, and search for the script sample title.

This PowerShell script sample shows how to convert Visio page file to .png file.

Many companies generate technical visuals in Microsoft Visio and would like to be able to share this information on their corporate sites. The problem, however, is that most users would not be able to view the visuals in this format. One of the ways of solving this problem is converting Visio diagrams to a more universal format like PNG.  But doing it manually would be time consuming, this sample can help us to batch convert Visio files, it would be very convenient.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery