Snover Questions

<Gaurhoth> Please make sure the other teams don't artificially restrict to v1.0 :) So I had to uninstall CTP and reinstall 1.0 [to work with SCVMM]. I haven't tried reinstalling 2.0 yet... but I hate when people make those artificial limitations in install routines.
<Hal> Will we be able to install v1 and v2 side-by-side? I found it odd this was not allowed for the CTP.
<Jaykul> Do you personally, really think it's a good idea to hide your nouns behind branding prefixes like Get-QADUser?
<Jaylul>
1. Did you know there's no schema for ps1xml.
2. Ps1xml is overly complicated and produces very large files (even for something as simple as adding a single column with a property that already exists on the object).
3. Why is there no schema for ps1xml?
4. There's no way to specify colors as part of the formatting xml files -- it's the 21st Century dang it -- nobody's used monochrome monitors in 30 years.
5. The ps1xml is only consumed by the format-* cmdlets, which output objects which are HIDEOUSLY complicated .... just try to write an out-htmltable ... based on the output of the format-table cmdlet
6. When will there be a schema for the ps1xml files? (if you pretend Oisin was the one that asked about the schemas, he'll probably get a bigger chuckle out of it -- Oisin's promised them to bug them about it every week until they publish them).
<Jaykul> Are there any plans to consider open-sourcing the new "GUI" host, or at least releasing it as "reference" material?
<K5WTF> What cmdlet does he feel powershell lacks the most?
<JonWalz> In some pre-release versions of V1 the ability existed to navigate Active Directory in the same way as the file system or the registry. I was hoping to see this return in V2 but I don't see it yet. Is this still a feature that is planned for PowerShell?
<Hal> How did you and your team come to understand what system administrators want so well? That's a polite way to say that you are a developer and we don't normally expect so much out of you guys.
<JHicks> Microsoft has always taken the approach of leaving something for ISVs and others. That is, there have always been gaps filled in by third party products. How far will PowerShell go or what sort of things will be left for third party solutions?
<JHicks> Will Out-Printer ever support printing something other than text? For example, I might send the results of an expression to Out-printer and specify a PDF virtual printer which creates a file and I then might want to send that to a "real" printer for a hard copy. I can't easily accomplish this now. This is just one example. Printing image files like bitmaps is another.
<JHicks> Could constructing the xml help file for a cmdlet be made any more complicated?
<almostautomated> “Is a rewrite of the write-host in the roadmap; and if so how far off?”

The reason for this question is, it seems that the console color support is such that unless you use rawui you can’t feed through the formatters and retain color; if you use the rawui then the whole object is colored, including the header (if the first item is colored). Also, if colored objects are sent through a sort then the color is lost. It has been explained to me.