PowerTip: Determine your version of PowerShell and host operating system
June 29, 2018Jun 29, 201806/29/18Identify your PowerShell environment by making use of built-in PowerShell variables.
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Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 5)
June 29, 2018Jun 29, 201806/29/18Send and receive content to the Text-to-Speech API with PowerShell.
PowerShell PowerTip: Checking your PowerShell version
June 26, 2018Jun 26, 201806/26/18If there is one question I could say I get the most in PowerShell, it is:
How do I check my version?
Its not a hard thing, but its not an obvious thing. We can actually check our version with a build in variable called PSVersionTable
$psversiontable.PSVersion
Major Minor Build Revision
—– —– —– ——–
5 1 17134 48
Hope that helps,
PowerShell For Programmers: Here Strings, There Strings, Everywhere Some String Strings
June 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18There won’t be much code in today’s post, but this can be a useful feature to know about.
In addition to the expandable and literal strings we talked about, we can also use something called a Here String. Here strings allow us to have quote characters inside of our string that match the quote characters we use to create that string.
PowerTip: Use PowerShell to play WAV files
June 15, 2018Jun 15, 201806/15/18Make use of the native features of Windows through PowerShell to play sound.
Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 4)
June 15, 2018Jun 15, 201806/15/18Send and receive content to the Text-to-Speech API with PowerShell.
PowerShell PowerTip: Grabbing the location your script lives in
June 12, 2018Jun 12, 201806/12/18One super common thing in PowerShell is to design a script to consume particular files for data. Often times you are building the script right in the folder for your files. However, it can be annoying to give long, literal file paths to a file.
Working with JSON data in PowerShell
June 5, 2018Jun 5, 201806/5/18Welcome back everyone! This week we will take another look at some common data types we might encounter in the real world: JSON data.
JSON data is used pretty frequently on the web if you’re hitting APIs. This not only includes external data (twitter,