Setup Instructions

Run a powershell prompt as admin and ensure you can run unsigned scripts

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser 

Install scoop

  # https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop
  iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')

Use scoop to install common utilities

  # if you don't already have git installed 
  scoop install git    

  # pshazz for nice themable prompt, dir colors and more
  # https://github.com/lukesampson/pshazz
  scoop install pshazz 

Configure PowerShell profile. You may want to fork my repo so you can track your own customizations.

  # remove existing profile if it exists. WARNING: this will delete your existing profile. Backup your existing profile first if you
  # want to keep any settings that you have already made there
  if (test-path $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell) { rm -Recurse -Force $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell } 

  # Clone into the standard PowerShell profile directory
  cd $env:USERPROFILE\Documents
  git clone https://github.com/xpando/WindowsPowerShell.git

IMPORTANT! Close your current PowerShell window and start a new one as admin so that the new profile settings will take effect

Setup ConEmu - Includes the color scheme you see in the screenshot.

  # Clone repo with ConEmu configuration and installation script
  cd C:\
  git clone https://github.com/xpando/ConEmu.git
  cd ConEmu

  # Install fonts
  dir .\Fonts\*.ttf |% { add-font -path $_ }

  # download and unzip ConEmu binaries
  .\install.ps1

Now you can run ConEmu.exe or ConEmu64.exe if you are a 64bit OS and continue.

Customize pshazz theme

  # download my pshazz theme shown in screenshot 
  $url = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/xpando/d42df2c0f014d710db42/raw/cce3f6ca874bd18d316bca946bda34a2bd1efe43/xpando.json'
  if (!(test-path $env:USERPROFILE\pshazz)) { md $env:USERPROFILE\pshazz}
  (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring($url) | out-file $env:USERPROFILE\pshazz\xpando.json
  pshazz use xpando

Included Modules and Scripts

PSReadline - syntax highlighting and intellisense like completion for powershell commands https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine

PSGet - Search and install PowerShell modules easy. http://psget.net/

VisualStudio - provides command for importing Visual Studio environment settings so you can run msbuild.exe and csc.exe etc. Examples:

Import-VSEnvironment # using default version of 12
vs 11 # using alias and specify Visual Studio version

Clean-VSSolution.ps1 - Removes temp and output folders typically created by Visual Studio builds. Defaults to remove obj and bin folders

# Remove all obj and bin folders from the current directory and any sub directories
Clean-VSSolution.ps1

# Remove all svn folders from the current directory and any sub directories
Clean-VSSolution.ps1 -dirNames '.svn', '_svn'

Several other useful scripts are included in the ~\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts folder.

Logos

The logos were made using jp2a and cleaned up using PabloDraw