The PowerShell pipeline can pass objects from one command to another, enabling output from a function to stream – or ‘pipe’ – as input into another command. In this article we will demonstrate how to leverage this functionality to seamlessly…
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On our PowerShell community forums, we have recently received questions asking if it is possible to store PowerShell variables in external files, and if so, how is it done. It is indeed possible to store variables in external files for…
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PowerShell has multiple Cmdlets that display information, but the question that often arises is which one should be used? In this post we will take a look at the differences between some of the more common ways to display…
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SAPIEN technologies, Inc. is proud to announce that we’ve officially released iPowerShell on the Play Store! In this blog post, we will outline the two biggest features available.
SSH/PSWA Servers
Just as in the iOS version, there is a console…
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On Friday, February 17, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!).
It shows a PowerShell function with a Write-Verbose command and asks “Why won’t this verbose string print?”
You might think of this as a…
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On Friday, February 3, we posted a Friday Puzzle that shows a PowerShell function and a PowerShell class method that contain the same command sequence, including a statement with the Return keyword.
The puzzle asks: What does the function return?…
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On Friday, January 20, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!).
It shows a Get-ChildItem command where the value of the Path parameter is $PSHome, the Windows PowerShell installation directory, and the value of the…
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On Friday, January 6, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (here, too!).
It shows a Try block that encloses an expression with an intentional error and a Catch block that writes an error. But, when you…
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Tested on: PowerShell 2.0+, PowerShell Studio 2016
This step-by-step example shows you how to create a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI app. The app consists of a parent form that gets data from a child form and displays it. When…
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When I started using Git back in 2012, I wasn’t new to source control systems. I used a database-backed source control system back in the 80’s and, at Microsoft, I used Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).…
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