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A Windows PowerShell user group member recently came to me with a question about comment-based help in Windows PowerShell. It reminded me again that comment-based help is not as easy to use as you might think. Here are…
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In a Google+ discussion this week, Edi Prinz demonstrated an effect of the ValidationRange parameter attribute that surprised many of us. When you validate a parameter value, the validation rules are enforced on the parameter variable — and…
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I often manage data in CSV files, typically data that originates in an Excel spreadsheet. The Import-Csv cmdlet, which creates custom objects from the contents of a CSV file, makes CSV data an optimal choice in Windows PowerShell.…
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SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. is proud to announce its second wave of MVPs for 2015.
SAPIEN Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. It’s our way to recognize and show
our appreciation for community members who promote our products and contribute
to…
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In a previous post, I talked about displaying output in a GUI application. But I really covered only the primary output of cmdlets. In this post, we’ll discuss some very basic strategies for detecting and displaying terminating and…
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SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. is proud to announce its first wave of MVPs for 2015.
SAPIEN Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. It’s our way to recognize and show
our appreciation for community members who promote our products and contribute
to…
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SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. is proud to announce the introduction
of the SAPIEN Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. It’s our way
to recognize and show our appreciation for community members who
promote our products and contribute to their improvement and…
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[Update: The original post referred to “enums” as “enumerators” when, in fact, they are “enumerated types.” By contrast, enumerators allow you to process items one at a time. Many thanks to Windows PowerShell MVP Dave Wyatt (@msh_Dave) for…
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I’ve been playing with the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview and especially with its new class feature. After I create my class, I often create several instances of the class and experiment with them in my session. For example,…
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After many years of writing scripts for the Windows PowerShell console, I’m now learning the next level of automation — writing GUI applications that run Windows PowerShell commands. PowerShell Studio forms provide a gentle and well-guided introduction to GUI applications,…
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