searching msdn within powershell

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:47:03 GMT

What if you're in Powershell and need to know how to use a specific namespace or class? Of course you can start internet explorer, go to msdn and do a search.

But why not do this from within powershell?

Function msdn {

param([string]$searchstring="")
$inet = New-Object -Com Internetexplorer.Application
$netsearch = "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/forms?queryTerm="
$inet.Navigate($netsearch+$searchstring)
$inet.Visible=$TRUE
}

And now, we can just type:

PS:> msdn forms

The result will be a new internet explorer window with you're search results.

You can put this function in you're profile so you can use it all the time.

have fun

Grt

Dennis

Just Powershell it: handy script

searching msdn within powershell