PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: eed a quick message box to display something or ask a question? Fortunately, PowerShell can access old COM components. Here’s a line that creates a MsgBox for 5 seconds. If the user does not make a choice within that time, it returns -1: a perfect solution for… Continue reading Opening MsgBoxes using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: Your own PowerShell functions can have the same sophisticated parameters, parameter types and parameter sets that you know from cmdlets. However, it is not always obvious how to construct the param() block appropriately. A clever way is to spy on cmdlets and look how they did it.… Continue reading Spying on Parameters in Powershell
In a previous tip you learned how to use clip.exe to send results to the clipboard. But what if you don’t have clip.exe (let’s say on Windows XP) or don’t want dependencies? Here’s a clever alternative: function Out-Clipboard { param( $text ) Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms $tb = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $tb.Multiline = $true if… Continue reading Sending Text to Clipboard Everywhere using Powershell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: What if you wanted to paste information from the clipboard? No sweat, here is a Get-Clipboard function that outputs any text held by the clipboard: function Get-Clipboard { Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms $tb = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox $tb.Multiline = $true $tb.Paste() $tb.Text } In a previous tip we presented… Continue reading Reading the Clipboard using Powershell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: Creating Your Own Get-Driver Tool Some code snippets are really valuable, so you should turn them into functions to keep around as new PowerShell commands. Here’s a sample function: function Get-Driver { param( $Keyword = ‘*’ ) $col1 = @{Name=‘File Name’; Expression={ Split-Path… Continue reading Creating Your Own Get-Driver Tool using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: Finding More Driver Information In a previous tip you learned how you can convert raw CSV data from a console application such as driverquery.exe into real PS objects. Let’s play some more. Since the CSV data only returns the complete path to a driver (which is too… Continue reading Finding More Driver Information using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: You probably know what this line produces: ‘Hello’ * 12 Right, you get 12 times the string you submitted. If you wanted new lines instead, a minor adjustment will do the job: ,‘Hello’ * 12 The comma puts the string into an array, and when you multiply arrays,… Continue reading Creating Multiline Strings
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: In a previous tip you learned that text arrays can easily be multiplied. The same is true for assignment operators such as +=. When you apply this operator to a string, it appends a text: PS> $text = “Hello” PS> $text += “World” PS> $text HelloWorld When… Continue reading Adding New Lines to Strings
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: If you need to set the default value for a Registry Key, you can use either of these approaches: Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Somekey -Name ‘(Default)’ -Value MyValue Or, you can just do this: Set-Item -Path HKCU:\Software\Somekey -Value MyValue thanks
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: When you write functions that accept credentials as parameters, add a transformation attribute! This way, the user can either submit a credential object (for example, a credential supplied from Get-Credential), or simply a user name as string. The transformation attribute will then convert this string automagically into a… Continue reading Asking for Credentials
