Microsoft's PowerShell team has published a preview extension in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace for command-line scripting within your favorite open source, cross-platform code editor. The ...

Microsoft has just announced that the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code has hit version 1.0. It brings a "rich debugging experience", Plaster templates, integrated script analysis, and more.

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PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

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 ...

Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...