When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

PowerShell automation to make the lives of IT easier is what it's all about for James Brundage, founder of Start-Automating. That's what compelled him and his team to create the PipeScript module, ...

If you want to group parts of your code for debugging purposes or simple readability, the PowerShell ISE has the answer. Keeping your code organized is sometimes just as important as the code actually ...

Writing tests for PowerShell code can sometimes be tricky. Depending on how complex your code depends on how many tests that must be created. Also, if you've got a script or function with a lot of ...

Microsoft is announcing today that it’s open-sourcing PowerShell, its system administration and configuration management tool that’s been a default part of Windows for several years. Microsoft is also ...

If you're a PowerShell user and a fan of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), you now have the option to flick on ISE mode in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) cross-platform ...

Back in April of 2015, Microsoft announced Visual Studio Code, a free, cross-platform source code editor based on the Electron framework, which makes use of the same editor component from Visual ...

A new "getting started" experience highlights the August 2022 update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code. Other new things for the tool -- available in the VS Code Marketplace-- include ...