Vista - make-shell

What happened to the whole custom shells and make-shell tool in the RTM? I
can't find any info on this anymore. (Oh God please tell me it's still around
or I have a lot of code to rewrite to make all this work with snapins...)

Think is now part of the SDK which is downloadable from


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


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"fuzzy333" wrote:

> What happened to the whole custom shells and make-shell tool in the RTM? I
> can't find any info on this anymore. (Oh God please tell me it's still around
> or I have a lot of code to rewrite to make all this work with snapins...)

Hi Fuzzy;

These are still available in the PowerShell SDK, which is part of the
Windows SDK.

That said, we designed the snapin model to make your life significantly
/easier/ , not harder. Custom shells are designed for situations when you
want to lock down your environment and bake the functionality into it. If
that's what you're trying to do, then great. If you just want to develop
your own custom cmdlets and providers into your shell, then a snapin is the
best way to go. When you implement your functionality as a snapin instead of
a custom shell, you still have the ability to use and install other snapins.
And perhaps more importantly, you can easily share your snapin with other
PowerShell users without having to package and distribute your entire custom
shell.

You don't have to rewrite any code in order to transform your current Cmdlet
/ Provider DLL into a snapin. All you need to do is define an additional
class to help PowerShell and .NET install and manage your snapin. The
additional class extends the PSSnapinClass, and needs only to provide a
Name, Vendor, and Description.

This article on CodeProject is a helpful introduction to that:
http://www.codeproject.com/vista/getfromcopernic.asp (although the name
should be related to the DLL name, not the cmdlet contained inside of it.)

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Lee Holmes [MSFT]
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Microsoft Corporation
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"fuzzy333" <fuzzy333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:976B0370-EB00-4E30-ACE9-D443FEDB8377@microsoft.com...
> What happened to the whole custom shells and make-shell tool in the RTM? I
> can't find any info on this anymore. (Oh God please tell me it's still
> around
> or I have a lot of code to rewrite to make all this work with snapins...)