Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Working with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) in PowerShell

Jaap Brasser
1 Min To Read
24 Dec, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. PowerShell offers a powerful method of working with URIs by leveraging the System.

#PSCXTip Getting details about a command’s parameters

Keith Hill
3 Min To Read
21 Dec, 2012
- Tips and tricks

The parameters for a PowerShell command can be quite complex. Some parameters are only valid in certain parameter sets. Parameters have types, may be mandatory or optional, can have aliases and may or may not support pipeline input.

#PSCXTip Manipulating file attributes

Keith Hill
2 Min To Read
20 Dec, 2012
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When dealing with files under source control it is quite often useful to be able to make a bunch of files readonly or writable in bulk.

#PSCXTip Testing XML for well-formedness and validity against a schema

Keith Hill
2 Min To Read
19 Dec, 2012
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We often deal with XML files whether it is modifying TFS work item templates, C# project files, or our own XML data files.

#PSCXTip Formatting XML for better readability

Keith Hill
2 Min To Read
18 Dec, 2012
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XML is great for easily storing structured data and is pretty easy to work with in PowerShell. However, sometimes you run across XML that is so poorly formatted you lose out on XML’s human readability.

#PSCXTip How to determine the byte order mark of a text file

Keith Hill
2 Min To Read
17 Dec, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Text files created by PowerShell are little endian Unicode (UTF-16LE) by default. You can see this by inspecting the first couple of bytes of a text file for a BOM i.

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