Whats Next

Sept 29th 2008

Our next step is to conduct a survey of our customers, users, and PowerShell community to see what we want to do with our IDEs. We have code for a lightweight and fast PowerShell-lite that can load and run without a runspace (even without PowerShell if desired), and a PSA Version 2 build against PowerShell Version 2 and build on Visual Studio Shell. We are committed to not compete against PowerShell Plus, and also see that many PowerShell editors have reached the "good enough" stage and now a PowerShell editor is a generic commodity so we are only willing to release something on the marketplace that we are willing to support long term.

Another thing we are likely to do is to componentized updated versions of PSA’s vizualisers, and the provider explorer and release new help system in a way that they can be used from powershell.exe or from PowerShell Analyzer.

Additionally there are a number of Powershell Snapins that we’d like to bring out. We plan to opensource a project or two, keep some free, and productize enough to put the bread on the table.

-Karl