Overview

PowerShell productivity tools for development

How to setup

This tool is a self-contained PowerShell module. It can be used by explicitly installing to user’s PowerShell module directory.

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Tools

Compare NPM dependecies

This tool is suppused to compare npm dependencies in a source and a destination package.json.
By using this tool it’s easy to higlight version mismatches.

# Simple compare 
npmCompare c:\examples\first\package.json c:\examples\second\package.json
# Include DEV dependecies
npmCompare c:\examples\first\package.json c:\examples\second\package.json -IncludeDevDeps
# Show mathcing entries as well
npmCompare c:\examples\first\package.json c:\examples\second\package.json -IncludeEquals

Example output:

Name                      Type         Source Destination Latest
----                      ----         ------ ----------- ------
@google-cloud/bigquery    dependencies 1.0.0  ^0.9.6      1.0.0
@google-cloud/datastore   dependencies 1.1.0  1.0.4       1.3.3
@google-cloud/debug-agent dependencies 2.3.2  2.1.2       2.3.2
@google-cloud/storage     dependencies 1.5.2  1.2.0       1.5.2

Paremeters

• Source: Path of the package.json file to be used as the source of the comparison
• Destination: Path of the package.json file to be used as destination of the comparison
• Filter: Filter result by package name
• IncludeEqual: Include matching packages in the result
• IncludeDevDeps: Include devDependencies in comparison result
• ShowMismatchOnly: Show package version mismatch only in the result
• LatestVersionInfo: Show latest npm package version in the result

Compare DLLs in source directories

This tool is suppused to compare dlls in a source and a destination folders.
By using this tool it’s easy to higlight version mismatches and missing references.

# Simple compare 
dllCompare c:\examples\first c:\examples\second\
# Use filter
dllCompare c:\examples\first c:\examples\second\ -Filter Microsoft*
# Analyze file versions
dllCompare c:\examples\first c:\examples\second\ -CompareVersion

Example output:

Name                              FileVersion  SideIndicator
----                              -----------  -------------
Hangfire.Core.resources.dll       1.6.8.0      =>
Hangfire.Core.dll                 1.6.8.0      =>
Hangfire.SqlServer.dll            1.6.8.0      =>
Hangfire.SqlServer.dll            0.0.0.0      =>
Microsoft.Owin.dll                3.0.30819.47 =>
Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.dll 3.0.30819.47 =>
Newtonsoft.Json.dll               5.0.1.16007  =>
Owin.dll                          1.0          =>