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Maybe you stumbled across code like this in the past: $shell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell $value = $shell.Popup('Restart...

The PowerShell pipeline tends to be slow when it is processing a lot of elements. This can take a lot of time: $result = 1..15000 | ForEach-Object {...

It may be useful for PowerShell to know whether a given key is currently pressed. This way, your profile script could, for example, do things during...

Advanced PowerShell users often find themselves doing one of three things: They run a previous command and add Get-Member to learn more about the...

When you override Out-Default to do something meaningful, you really want to make sure the old behavior isn’t lost, and instead just something...

Out-Default is a hidden PowerShell cmdlet that gets called at the end of each command, and outputs results to the console. You can override this...

Typically, Out-GridView opens a window and displays whatever you pipe into the cmdlet: PS C:\> Get-Service | Out-GridView However, with a little...

At psconf.eu there was recently a challenge for the shortest code to check for how often a password was previously pwnd (hacked). Here is the result...

Some geocoding APIs provide sophisticated sentiment analysis like in the example below: "Most important museums of Amsterdam are located on the...

Geocoding can automatically extract geolocations from text. This example also shows a new way of submitting information to a server: in the example...

Today, we’d like to do the opposite and translate latitude and longitude into an address: '52.37799,9.75195' | ForEach-Object -Begin...

Let’s start with translating addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates. We assume you read the previous parts to fully understand the...