I’ve been hearing a lot of questions recently about what things you can do with advanced functions.  People seem to be aching for good examples of using PowerShell V2 functions, and, since I’ve discovered a few handy tricks for advanced functions, I thought I’d start to share them there in a series...

The first post in this series was learning to crawl. I introduced Get-Web , which allows you to use System.Net.Webclient to download web sites in a variety of ways. The next post was learning to walk. I showed us Get-MarkupTag , which helps coerce parts of the web into XML. Now we can start to really...

As I've said a number of times before, PowerShell's quantum leap forward is something called the Object Pipeline.  It allows you to take the results of one command and easily use them with the next, which means that each command you create becomes a link in a chain rather than an isolated island...

There's a simple yet powerful function that nearly everyone on the PowerShell team has written a version of.  My version is called Get-Type.  It's only a one-liner, but it's an amazing way to explore .NET and it's also an amazing example of some of the things you can do with the object pipeline...

Both WPF and PowerShell are both full of great little touches. One of WPF's nice touches is Routed Events . Routed Events allow you to capture events raised by child controls or parent controls. This can be incredibly useful, because it allows you write less code (which I believe is generally good) by...

In a previous post , I showed you how you can debug Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers in Visual Studio and load them up without using installutil.exe. This very briefly touched on using the command Add-Module, in this case, to load up an assembly containing cmdlets. This post explains how to...

I was cleaning up some scripts for posting when I happened upon this minor trick. I had a function that was using $input, a PowerShell v1 feature that allows you to use pipelined values within a function.  This enables you to do basic pipelining with PowerShell v1, but it can make code more complex...