Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a new GUID. How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily generate a new GUID for a project.? Use the New-Guid cmdlet. If you need to create more than one, you can use code such as the following (% is an alias for Foreach-Object): 1..4 | % {new-guid}
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using inheritance with Windows PowerShell 5.0 classes in Windows 10. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I want to talk about class inheritance with Windows PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10. In Introduction to PowerShell 5 Classes, I talked about class design and I mentioned how im...
Summary: Learn how to easily find class constructors. How can I use Windows PowerShell 5.0 to find the constructor overloads for a new class I want to create? Place the class in square brackets, and call the static New method with no parentheses, for example: [datetime]::new
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using the new Windows PowerShell 5.0 class feature in Windows 10 and doing constructor overloading. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I want to talk about overloaded constructors. I know, I know, I know… It sounds like some sort of engineering failure. But that is not the c...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to perform a quick fix on a volume. How can I use Windows PowerShell to perform a quick fix on a volume that is somewhat suspect? Use the Repair-Volume cmdlet and specify the drive letter and the SpotFix parameter, for example: Repair-Volume -DriveLetter E -SpotFix
