There is one major flaw you must have encountered whilst working with Silverlight for a while: its incompatibility with unit tests! Unless you’ve been using Silverlight solely for drawing circles and rectangles, surely you must have tried to use the Silverlight Toolkit unit test project template to try to put some TDD in your project ! …most probably you were disappointed by it because it’s fairly poor…

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After working more than a year on different projects using PowerShell (v1 and v2), I would like to share with you some Best practices that I could identify.

I decided to write this article when I realized that I was always using the same tips/tricks and asking people working with PowerShell to use them as well.

Some of the tips that I’ll give may seem stupid and/or quite common (not to say mandatory), in the development world… But scripting is not really part of the “development world” and I realized that it’s much easier to write dirty codes.
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