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Paul Thurott recentlyposted an article about LightSwitch, and made some interesting comments on PowerShell. The article is, as usual for Paul, well-written and thought-out. But I wanted to offer some alternative viewpoints for a couple of the...

Following up onyesterday's post, I have one more thing that I'm still trying to purge out of my brain as I use PowerShell: Variables...

When I started to switch my brain from VBScript to PowerShell (a topic I'm actually speaking on atTechMentor this Fall), I had a lot of difficulty. When I started trying to teach ...

I'm accustomed to using the Help (or Man) command to obtain help on PowerShell. Technically, these ARE commands - not aliases (you'll see Help if you run Dir Function:, and Man is an alias to help). They bundle up some functionality, like...

A reader, Paul, dropped me a note to ask about a script he'd written. He wanted to duplicate what had ben a manual process up to that point, including...