If you've been using PowerShell, then you know that one of the great things about it is the ability to take objects outputted from one cmdlet, easily send it to another cmdlet and have it know how to ...

One of the best things about Windows PowerShell is the pipeline. The pipeline is beneficial in so many ways, and it is in part what makes PowerShell fun to code in. The capability of the pipeline to ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

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Don Jones, TechMentor presenter and cochair, discusses some of his observations on how people are using PowerShell, and how they could do a better job. If you ever need to know more about PowerShell, ...

I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...

let's say I have a powershell function that takes a number of string parameters and combine them into a directory path, what's the best way to ensure each individual variable ends with an appropriate ...