database-tools

In the previous tip we used an old COM technique to display a pop-up box with a built-in timeout. That worked pretty well except that the dialog box...

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...