When you write objects to the pipeline in Windows PowerShell, at the end of the pipeline PowerShell’s formatting system handles displaying the results to the console. It accomplishes this by using a set of rules stored in XML configuration files...
In this post I got triggered by a question on our MVP maillist, about using HashTables to make Custom columns with Select Object, a technique I use often 'm glad that you don't haev to remember label or name now, but it has always perplexed me why you ever name name,expression at all given that...
A lot of data these days is wrapped as XML, and up until now, handling XML data wasn't a piece of cake. PowerShell makes handling XML a lot easier. This is the first part of a little series about XML and PowerShell. We start with accessing XML documents and reading data. Getting XML Data Let's...