For fast and effective development of software for the Microsoft Windows operating system a bunch of tools are quite helpful. Having them accessable from the Powershell gives the advantage to make them very easy to use and avalible for everywhere in Windows.
In case the development is done using Microsoft Visual Studio there is a plugin to include ConEmu which allows you to use the Powershell and therefor also this module directly in your IDE. For details please see the readme of the project: https://github.com/Therena/ConEmuIntegration
Please also see the detailed description of the commandlets itself in the code or after importing the module by calling Get-Help for the specific commandlet.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| Get-OperatingSystemBitness | Get bitness of the installed Windows operating system |
| Get-DebuggerPath | Get the paths to the Windows Debug (WinDBG) executables in the installed Windows kits |
| Get-KernelDebuggerPath | Get the paths to the Windows Kernel Debug (kd) executables in the installed Windows kits |
| Find-WindowsKitFile | Get the full path to a file in the installed Windows kits |
| Connect-KernelDebugger | Connect the kernel debugger (windbg) to the given host system |
| Get-DumpAnalysis | Runs and prints an analysis of a crash dump file |
| Open-DumpAnalysis | Opens an analysis of a crash dump file |
| Get-LinesOfCode | Count the lines of code in all the selected files |
| Get-EicarSignature | Prints the eicar (European Expert Group for IT-Security) signature |
| Get-SymbolCheck | Get the paths to the symbol check (symchk) executables in the installed Windows kits |
| Find-Symbols | Find the symbols (PDBs) for the given path |
| Get-FileDetails | Obtain the details of the given file(s) or directory |
| Get-AuthenticodeDetails | Read the certificates from the given file |
| Get-HexDump | Get the content of the file in hexadecimal format |
| Get-GlobalAssemblyCache | Read the entries of the global assembly cache from the registry |
| Get-DateTime | Get the date and time in different formats |
The module just needs to be imported into PowerShell be e.g. calling the following command
Import-Module .\WindowsDevelopmentShellTools.psd1- Create the folder
New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Windows-Development-Shell-Tools - Copy or clone the content of the repository to that folder
cd $Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Windows-Development-Shell-Tools
git clone https://github.com/Therena/WindowsDevelopmentShellTools.git- The module will be loaded automatically in powershell
Please also see for more details: Microsoft Docs - Installing a PowerShell Module
After the module is imported or installed into the powershell all the commandlets from the module are available. For example the "Get-DateTime" commandlet:
PS C:\>Get-DateTime
Format Time
------ ----
Time 13.11.2018 21:02:58
Unix Time 1542142978
File Time 131866129788272588
ISO Date 2018-11-13T21:02:58In case you want to have some more details about a commandlet, there is a detailed help included for each single commandlet. To get this help displayed please use the "Get-Help" commandlet:
Get-Help Get-DateTimeThe "Detailed" flag causes that the examples are shown as well:
Get-Help Get-DateTime -Detailed