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PowerShell    is an amazing tool which we can use to perform various operations in windows environments. Today we are going to write a  PowerShell   script using Windows  PowerShell   ISE. How to open Windows PowerShell ISE  For this session we need to have Windows  PowerShell   ISE. You can find it under,  Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools. You better open Windows  PowerShell   ISE as administrator mode. if you have any issues please follow this link.  Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) In My project I had to use  PowerShell   script to regiter few Dlls in Global Assembly Cache (GAC) and keep file paths in XML file and extract data by reading XML file. My XML file looks like this and file name is FilePath.XML . FilePath.XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Resource>   <MacroFilePath>\ReleaseBuild\ReleaseMacro.mac</MacroFilePath>   <ProductName>BCS</ProductN

In my project, I had a scenario to build the assembly program and after that,  I had to perform few operation related to deployment since my project is kind of a connector to connect Microsoft Dynamics GP  to an e-Commerce solution. So, I was looking for a solution. I found out that my whole process can be executed with visual studio.Since my connector has one part of.Net assembly which is built with c#, I was using Visual Studio 2015 as my development environment. Solution In my case, I had to write a PowerShell script within my solution to automate copping file to necessary places. Refer this link if you need more information about   How to write PowerShell script once I have the script in place, we need to set the property   Copy to Output Directory to Copy always to make this script copy always to the bin folder.  Then, In visual studio project in build event, I have given following command to run  PowerShell script with the required parameter as the file p