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PowerShell can use .NET type names, for example to convert values to a given type. Frequently, scripts use a variety of formats to define .NET...

Error handling does not necessarily have to be complex. It can be as simple as checking whether the last command executed successfully: # suppress...

Beginning in PowerShell 5, the PowerShell console features colorized text, and there is a wealth of other new features provided by a module named...

By converting a path to a FileInfo object, you can easily determine the path parent folder or file extension. Have a look:...

Often, code needs to check on files, and for example test whether the file exists or exceeds a given size. Here is some commonly used code: $logFile...

Beginning in PowerShell 5, you can use Start-Transcript in any host to log all the output created by your script. Here is how you can easily add...

On Windows 10, the operating system ships with a bunch of high-quality text-to-speech engines and is no longer limited to just the English language....

Occasionally, you might read about Trim(), TrimStart(), and TrimEnd() to remove text from strings. And this seems to really work well: PS C:\>...

In the previous tip you learned how you can use Export-CliXml to serialize data and then use Compress-Archive to shrink the huge XML files to only a...