Microsoft recently announced that they are adding a feature to Excel that will allow Python code to be embedded and used for advanced analytics. That made me wonder if it might be possible to create ...

Microsoft's dev team for the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code has updated the tool in a major revamp some two years in the making, driven by user feedback submitted via GitHub issues. "This ...

If you're a PowerShell user and a fan of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), you now have the option to flick on ISE mode in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) cross-platform ...

PowerShell modules allow you to combine multiple scripts to simplify code management, accessibility, and sharing. Scripts are useful, but they can become unwieldy over time as you create more and more ...

PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

You can buy specific software to sync your files and folders, but it may not offer the flexibility you need. A good PowerShell script, however, can help you build a custom solution that meets all your ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Microsoft is announcing today that it’s open-sourcing PowerShell, its system administration and configuration management tool that’s been a default part of Windows for several years. Microsoft is also ...