PowerCrate

PowerCrate is a lightweight PowerShell toolbox for developers and power users.

It provides practical, no-nonsense commands to speed up everyday development and system tasks directly from the terminal.

Designed to grow over time, PowerCrate focuses on small, composable utilities that “just work” for common development and system workflows.

Features

• sln Open the first (or interactively selected) Visual Studio solution (.sln or .slnx) found under the current directory.

• open Open a file or directory using the operating system’s default file explorer (open ., open .., etc.).

Installation

Using PSResourceGet (recommended)

Install-PSResource PowerCrate -Repository PSGallery -Scope CurrentUser

Using PowerShellGet (legacy)

Install-Module PowerCrate -Scope CurrentUser

After installation, import the module:

Import-Module PowerCrate

Usage

Open the current directory

open .

Open the parent directory

open ..

Open a Visual Studio solution in the current folder

sln

Open a specific solution by name

sln MyProject

If multiple solutions are found, PowerCrate will prompt you to select one interactively.