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  • Name: Dmitri Fedorov 
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  • Member Since: May 13, 2008
  • Last Logged In: Nov 11, 2009 12:20 PM
  • Status Level: Enthusiast Enthusiast (182 points)
  • Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Occupation: Senior Software Engineer
  • Homepage: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrifedorov
  • Biography: Grew up in Western Siberia, in 1997 immigrated to Canada, hoping to find an interesting work and a new home. Found it!

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Downloaded and installed vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 for Windows.

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/wintk40/windowstoolkit40-200905-releasenotes.html

It will be used for writing test scripts under PS.

It gave me a very good first impression.

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Using PS a bit, I tried to speed up my work with some command line shortcuts and a quick googling returned to me this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/manual/hotkeys.mspx

I don't know what to think about it.

PS was presented to me by my Windows-savvy coworkers as a shot to compete with *nix shells, so I'd expect it so be somehow close to usability that *nix shell provides, but its shortcut keys set looks like a creation of a first grade college student or a high school senior.

I mean very simple things everybody uses in a command line: incremental search through history, deleting a word (forward and back) and deleting from cursor to the end.

It's completely missing from PS!

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This is what I use all the time:

1. The API Reference Guide
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/

2. The Managed Object Browser
https://my-esx-server/mob/?

3. SDK & API FAQs
http://www.vmware.com/communities/content/developer/faqs.html

4. VI SDK samples
vi-sdk-xxx-xxx\SDK\samples\Axis
vi-sdk-xxx-xxx\SDK\samples\DotNet

I generated html documentation from Java samples using Doxygen.

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