Author Archives: Boe Prox

Quickly Create a PowerShell Snippet in the ISE Using an Add On

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Boe Prox

As you know, starting with PowerShell V3, we have had the ability to create our own snippets within the PowerShell ISE. I actually covered doing this a while back using the New-ISESnippet cmdlet that is available to use so I … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Tracking The Status of GitHub Using PowerShell

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Boe Prox

This evening I noticed that GitHub, a site for collaborating and sharing code that I use for all of my projects, was down for an unknown reason. The site showed the dreaded ‘Unicorn of 503’ and I was left without … Continue reading →

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Getting the Icon from a File Using PowerShell

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Boe Prox

Sometimes you want to use an icon of a particular file for another purpose such as working with a custom UI in either WinForms or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) where you can supply the Base64 data to automatically load the … Continue reading →

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Updated Function to Remove Long Files and Directories

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Boe Prox

I had a post last month ( or year for that matter) on Hey, Scripting Guy! where I talked about using PInvoke and PowerShell to create a function that allowed you to remove files which were nested too deep in … Continue reading →

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2016 PowerShell Resolutions

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Boe Prox

I had a pretty good response with my post from last year on your PowerShell resolutions both in the comments and elsewhere on the internet for 2015 that I decided to do another one! First I am going to look … Continue reading →

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