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.