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Whenever you need to assign multi-line text to a variable, you can use so-called here-string. This is a sample: $myCodeSnippet=@' function...

PowerShell 3.0 ISE editor creates collapsible regions automatically, so you can collapse a function body or an IF statement. In addition, you can...

Sometimes you may just be interested in the last couple of entries in a log file. Here’s a simple yet fast way of outputting only the last x...

In a previous tip we illustrated how you can use web services to retrieve information such as public holidays or the location of an IP address....

Whenever a machine is connected to the Internet, it gets a public IP address (typically assigned by the ISP), and this public IP address is not...

In PowerShell 3.0, WPF is a great (and easy) way of creating GUIs. If you have a touch-enabled machine, check out how easily you can open a drawing...

Whenever you change a file, the file system automatically updates the LastWriteTime property. If you'd like to change a file without leaving...

Ed Wilson from the Scripting Guys demonstrated how PowerShell can use free web services to find out holidays. You do need direct (non-proxy)...

Aliases are shortcuts for commands and useful in interactive PowerShell. Once you write scripts, however, you should no longer use aliases and...

Ever wondered how a website knew which country you are from? That's because there are IP address segments assigned to certain regions. And...

Get-Process can easily return the CPU load for each running process, but this information by itself is not very useful: Get-Process | Select-Object...

PowerShell 3.0 uses .NET Framework 4.x so it has WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) capabilities built-in. This way, it only takes a few lines of...