What's new with PowerShell Plus

New in Version 3.1

• Enhanced Learning Center

  • Getting Started Page - Getting started with PowerShell Plus has never been easier! A new Getting Started page walks you through the steps you need to be find, create, run, edit and share scripts.
    
  • Mastering PowerShell eBook and PowerTips - Learning Windows PowerShell has never been easier! We’ve added PowerShell MVP Tobias Weltner’s entire book, Mastering PowerShell, and over 100 PowerShell Tips to the Learning Center.
    
  • Enhanced Search - Quickly and easily search all content in the Learning Center directly from the PowerShell Plus console or editor.
    

• Enhanced Personal ‘QuickClick™’ Script Library

  • Hundreds of free scripts - In your Personal QuickClick Library for applications like SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, Exchange, VMWare, and more!
    
  • Enhanced UI - Makes organizing and accessing your personal script libraries quick and easy.
    
  • Keyword Search - Quickly find the scripts you need.
    

• Enhanced Access to Community Script Libraries

  • Easy access to thousands of community scripts - New search and download features enable you to find and download scripts from PowerShell.com, TechNet and PoshCode libraries - directly from the PowerShell Plus console.
    
  • Easy script sharing - Quickly and easily share your scripts with the PowerShell community by uploading them to the PowerShell.com Script Library; or send them directly to your colleagues.
    

• New in the Console

  • The new, familiar Windows interface makes the console easier to navigate.
  • Support for PowerShell v2 modules has been added to help you discover the modules automatically and load them into PowerShell Plus for immediate use.

• Enhanced Code Editor

  • New PowerShell V2 Editor Snippets - Include Advanced Functions, Comment Based Help, Exception Handling, Jobs, Modules and Remoting.
    
  • Parameter code folding - For creating lengthy parameter sections in advanced functions.
    

• New installation options

  • Side-by-Side install - You can now install 32-bit and 64-bit versions of PowerShell Plus side by side on a 64-bit machine.
    
  • Extended trial period - We’ve extended the trial period from 14-days to 30-days to give you more time to evaluate the power of PowerShell Plus.
    

New in Version 3.0

• QuickClick™ - A solutions view that puts your most cherished scripts at your finger tips from within the PowerShell Plus console, organize them the way you like, execute them in the console, save them and share with your friends and co-workers. Includes starter Solution Sets for Active Directory, IIS 7.0, MySQL, SQL Server, SharePoint and VMware.
  
• 64-bit support - PowerShell Plus is now available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions giving you access to PowerShell snapins developed specially for native 64-bit Windows applications including Exchange 2007 and SQL Server 2008.
  
• Code Sharing - Enables you to leverage the wealth of scripts that reside in the PowerShell.com and PoshCode.org libraries. Increase your productivity by quickly and easily searching and grabbing the scripts from those libraries. You can also submit your own scripts to the PowerShell.com library directly from PowerShell Plus Editor.
  
• Visual Basic support - The PowerShell Plus Editor can now edit and run Visual Basic scripts.
  
• Code Completion - PowerShell Plus code completion just got better! In addition to the already rich code completion, we also provide easy access to link for Getting Help as well as Google search for examples containing the selected command.
  
• PowerShell v2 Support - Including Block Comments and the $Profile variable.