Monthly Archives: December 2012

PowerShell and Excel: Adding a Chart and Header Filter to a Report

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Boe Prox

In the previous articles I have shown you how to use Excel with PowerShell to make a nice disk space report, complete with color coded rows for disks that are running low on space. I am now going to take … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Excel: Adding Some Formatting To Your Report

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Boe Prox

Continuing from my previous Excel article, I will now take the report that I created and make more pleasant to the eyes and really show why this is different from just piping the output into Export-CSV to a CSV file. … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Deep Dives Now In Early Release (MEAP)

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Boe Prox

A PowerShell book that I contributed a couple of chapters to has just been released to MEAP, meaning that some chapters are now available for early review by the public. This has been a great experience and fun project to … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Excel: Creating Your Initial Report

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Boe Prox

One of the most common methods to generating a report (at least for me) is to write out the data to a CSV file using Export-CSV. While this is a simple and effective method of getting most data out to … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and WPF: ListBox Part 2–DataTriggers and ObservableCollection

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Boe Prox

I wanted to share a couple of more things when working with ListBoxes that I did not cover in my previous article. The items that I will cover are: Using an Observable Collection to handle data in the ListBox Using … Continue reading →

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