Showing archive results for September 2014

Summary: June Blender explains Doug Finke's multiplication and formatting trick. Today...the method. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This is the second part of a two-part series written by June Blender, Honorary Scripting Guy. In the first part, Fun Formatting Ones—Part 1: The Task, we discussed the task of printing Doug's multip...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display hidden properties from an object.  How can I see if there are any hidden properties on an object I have returned from Windows PowerShell?  Use the -Force parameter with either Format-List or Format-Table, for example: Get-ChildItem C: | Format-List * -Force &...

Summary: June Blender explains Doug Finke's multiplication and formatting trick. Today...the task. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, Honorary Scripting Guy, June Blender, examines a multiplication and formatting trick that Doug Finke posted on the PowerShell Facebook page. I've broken this article into two parts: Part 1:...

Summary: Use the Trim() method to remove extraneous space from a String object.  Is there an easy way to drop all spaces that are before or after a string in Windows PowerShell?  Use the Trim() method to remove all spaces before and after a string from the output, for example: $Something='  &nb...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to provide a GUI input and build a custom URL for Internet Explorer. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, here to share a little fun that I have enjoyed on the client site. I say it was fun because, to be quite honest, the problem really wasn't that challenging, but to make the solution seamless to an end user ...