SMART & EXE Package Providers

Microsoft Hackathon 2015 project - find, download and install applications in one line of PowerShell. Supports MSI and EXE installation.

Note that this is an experimental project and is not officially supported by Microsoft. Use at your own risk - only install applications from sources you trust. Contributions are very welcome!

Usage

find-package -provider smart notepad++ | select -first 1 | install-package

Deploy SMART Installer on your system

1. Build SMART and EXE solutions in Visual Studio.
2. Copy providers and dependent dlls to PackageManagement folder. The folder should be either one of:

C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PackageManagement\1.0.0.0\ 

or

C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PackageManagement

You can run

Get-Module PackageManagement -list

to get the actual location.

The files to copy are:

• SmartProvider.dll
• ExeProvider.dll
• Newtonsoft.Json.dll
• HtmlAgilityPack.dll

Check Installation

Get-PackageProvider

You should see SMART and EXE providers.

Verified with:

• Notepad++
• Vivaldi
• 7zip
• Icon Restore