Carbon v1.3 is out, is backwards compatible with v1.0 through v1.2. This release improves PowerShell 3 compatibility, updates Invoke-PowerShell so it can run scripts, and adds ConvertTo-Base64 and ConvertFrom-Base64 functions.

Thanks to Jason Stangroome for the feedback that contributed to the work done in this release.

Get the bits at BitBucket.

Enhancements

PowerShell

• Invoke-PowerShell now supports running an external script.
• Added OutputFormat argument to Invoke-PowerShell so your scripts/script blocks can return XML results instead of plain text.
• Renamed Invoke-PowerShell’s Args parameter to ArgumentList (with backwards compatibile Args alias).
• Renamed Invoke-PowerShell’s Command parameter to ScriptBlock (with backwards-compatible Command alias).
• Invoke-PowerShell now runs 64-bit PowerShell from 32-bit PowerShell.
• Get-PowerShellPath now returns path for 64-bit PowerShell when running 32-bit PowerShell.

Text

• Created new ConvertTo-Base64 function for encoding strings in base-64.
• Created new ConvertFrom-Base64 function for decoding base-64 strings.

Bug Fixes

.NET

• Set-DotNetAppSetting and Set-DotNetConnectionString weren’t able to set .NET 2.0 app settings and connections string when running under PowerShell 3.