Showing results for January 2010 - Page 4 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question. You guys seem to have a lot of material about automating Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel. You have even written some stuff about automating Microsoft Office Outlook, but I have never seen anything about automating Microsoft Office Visio. I am going to assume that it can be done, b...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been reading your articles this week about adding Help to scripts, and it looks really cool, but it also seems to be quite a bit of work. I would love to be able to display Help for a script when the script is run with a specific switch, but then it requires testing for the switched parameter and using nested if/then/el...

The clicks are in, and here's how you voted. These were our most clicked blog posts in 2009.1.       Can I Download Multiple Files at Once with Internet Explorer in Windows 7?2.       How Can I Simply Have Windows PowerShell Display Information on the Screen?3.     ...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I heard your interview the other day on the PowerScripting podcast, and I was really impressed. It is not every day I get to hear one of my heroes be interviewed on a podcast. I wanted to submit a question, but I got too carried away with the flow of things, and before I knew it, Hal was wrapping everything up. Oh, well. ...

  Hey Scripting Guy! I have been trying to add more comments to my Windows PowerShell scripts, but one thing that I really miss is a multiple-line comment character that I had in other programming languages. Not having a multiple-line comment was annoying in VBScript, but it is unacceptable for Windows PowerShell to not have it. Let’s fa...