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Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to display a calendar so that I can pick starting dates and ending dates by using a graphical tool. This is much easier and faster than having to type two dates into the command line, and it is more accurate as well. Besides, when I am choosing dates, I always have to click ...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I hate typing dates. There are several ways of typing dates, and they are all a pain. I do not like having to type the numbers and the whacks, and I do not like having to spell out month names, or attempting to remember if it is month first or day first. I like scripting, but I also like pointi...

 Hey, Scripting Guy! I am a faithful reader of the Hey, Scripting Guy! articles and have been a Dr. Scripto fan for years. I love your new TechNet Script Center Gallery too by the way. It is much easier to use and to locate scripts than what you had before. I had no idea you had so many scripts up there. WOW! Anyway, I have this script that I ...

(Note: This post by Ed Wilson originally appeared on the Microsoft Press Blog.)I finished writing my Windows PowerShell Best Practices book for Microsoft Press. I do not have all of the statistics available (number of words, number of figures, number of scripts and those type of numbers) but one value stands out clearly in my mind—one ...

 Hey, Scripting Guy! I know this may sound like a strange question, but I would like to create a graphical user interface for a Windows PowerShell script. I could do these kinds of things using a HTML Application (HTA) file, but I like writing Windows PowerShell scripts. If I could use some sort of functionality that would create a drop-down l...