Showing archive results for January 2015

Summary: View Windows PowerShell cmdlet Help online.            How can I view Windows PowerShell Help in my web browser?  The –Online parameter with the Get-Help cmdlet opens the latest online Windows PowerShell Help             in your web browser, for exam...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about the changing nature of documentation. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This week, we announced Microsoft HoloLens during the Windows 10: The Next Chapter webcast. I mean, I want one—badly. This is going to be an incredible year. The excitement of holographic computing has me...

Summary: Pipe a string to the Windows PowerShell Get-Date cmdlet to convert it to a DateTime object.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to convert a date that is in a string format to a DateTime object?  Create a pipeline, for example: "11/14/2015" | get-date 

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about creating custom date formats with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the cool things about working with Windows PowerShell is that it is highly configurable. In short, if there is something that I do not like, I can change it. Most of the time, that change...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display date formatting for a specific culture.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the short date pattern for a specific culture without            changing my UI culture settings?  Use the CultureInfo class from System.Globalization, c...