PSKoans
A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing. (by vexx32)
CsWin32
A source generator to add a user-defined set of Win32 P/Invoke methods and supporting types to a C# project. (by microsoft)
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| PSKoans | CsWin32 | |
|---|---|---|
| 56 | 23 | |
| 1,646 | 1,873 | |
| - | 4.5% | |
| 0.0 | 9.4 | |
| 12 months ago | 22 days ago | |
| PowerShell | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PSKoans
Posts with mentions or reviews of PSKoans.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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If you have no experience, learn Powershell (or Python)
PSKoans
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Best resource to learn PowerShell?
PSKoans: https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
- I'm brushing up on powershell, but I've got no projects to apply it to at the moment.
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The weird world of Windows file paths
It's worth learning at any age, especially now that it is an open-source, cross-platform shell. The PS Koans [1] that recently showed up on HN seemed an interesting way to try to learn it.
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Hello. Can someone please give me some fun and cool projects for powrshell? Thank you.
Get involved in the PowerShell Community: dbaTools, PSKoans, explore PoshCode, PowerShell Practice and Style, and lots more.
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I have to learn PowerShell in 2 weeks. is that possible?
Hey it's been a while but I had a guy recommend I use "Koans" and it was pretty cool in addition to the aforementioned Month of Lunches. https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
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practice scripting?
Look into PSKoans
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What are your favorite "learning guide" repos on GitHub?
One I personally liked for PowerShell was PSKoans.
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How can someone (in, say, a tech support position) practice Powershell in their spare time?
PSKoans: https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
CsWin32
Posts with mentions or reviews of CsWin32.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
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[OC] I made a program for Windows which lets you create sticky preview thumbnails
This was mostly a project for fun, to dive into CsWin32 - a PInvoke source generator as well to fiddle around with the DWM API.
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Change Secondary screen rotation using CMD
If you haven't seen the CsWin32 project, you can use it to generate all your bindings as well. It generates the raw extern bindings, and then friendly wrappers for C# (where possible) that also work really well with PowerShell.
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Hello. Can someone please give me some fun and cool projects for powrshell? Thank you.
If you're looking for something different, try out writing windows programs using Win32 via CsWin32. You can generate a DLL that you Add-Type into PowerShell that lets you access all of Win32.
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PInvoke.net: the interop wiki
Also worth mentioning is this C# source generator for generating P/Invoke methods for win32 APIs: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32
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WPF Roadmap 2023
Idk what all the hubub is about FolderBrowserDialog, it's pretty easy to make the Win32 calls (you can even code generate the interop calls).
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C# to C Struct
You could try this to auto-generate it.
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Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs
A quick Google Search netted the following project (https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32). Looks like my evening is gone.
- Should you use c# for memory manipulation
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Fixing my BF1942 woes with Win32 APIs
I tried out both TerraFX.Interop.Windows and CsWin32, ultimately settling on the latter. CsWin32 was a little less intimidating as the API is generated based on strings in a text file rather than containing everything at once. Also I like jumping to definition of types to read more and explore APIs etc and doing that to one of the types in the TerraFX library crashed Visual Studio. That's more of a VS problem than a TerraFX library but still - CsWin32 would work great for what I'm doing.
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How to interact with Win 11 API?
Pick your P/Invoke library of choice. For instance, CsWin32, or if you feel braver and want to go faster, TerraFX.Interop.Windows
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PSKoans and CsWin32 you can also consider the following projects:
ClangSharp - Clang bindings for .NET written in C#
Mailozaurr - Mailozaurr is a PowerShell module that aims to provide SMTP, POP3, IMAP and probably some other ways to interact with Email. Underneath it uses MimeKit and MailKit libraries written by Jeffrey Stedfast.
PSWritePDF - PowerShell Module to create, edit, split, merge PDF files on Windows / Linux and MacOS
SRWE - Simple Runtime Window Editor
Vanara - A set of .NET libraries for Windows implementing PInvoke calls to many native Windows APIs with supporting wrappers.
pinvoke - A library containing all P/Invoke code so you don't have to import it every time. Maintained and updated to support the latest Windows OS.
terrafx.interop.windows - Interop bindings for Windows.
cheat-engine - Cheat Engine. A development environment focused on modding
psfalcon - PowerShell for CrowdStrike's OAuth2 APIs
DalamudPlugins - This repository hosts plugins for XIVLauncher/Dalamud
cppcomponents - Allows you to write binary components in C++11 that can be used across different compilers and standard libraries
CppSharp - Tools and libraries to glue C/C++ APIs to high-level languages