When I’m working on an extremely large SharePoint deployment, getting small code changes deployed to my dev environment to test things can be a slow process.

I’ve started using PowerShell very frequently to verify the expected return from different objects before writing the code.

Here’s how you can enumerate all the site templates installed:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom
    ("..12 hive..\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.dll");

$globalAdmin = New-Object –TypeName 

$webTemplates = $globalAdmin.VirtualServers[0].GetWebTemplates("1033");

$webTemplates | Select Name, Description;