PowerShell has a set of cmdlets that allow you to control how properties are displayed for particular objects. The names of all the cmdlets begin with the verb Format. They let you select which ...

List output format produces two columns, property names followed by the value. For complex objects, the type of the object is displayed instead. The following output has some fields removed.

installation directory (`$pshome`). Each of these files defines the default display for a specific set of .NET objects. These files should never be changed. However ...

description The `Format.ps1xml` files in PowerShell define the default display of objects in the PowerShell console. You can create your own `Format.ps1xml` files to change the display of objects or ...

You may not think too often about how text is displayed in your PowerShell console, but under the covers, there's quite a bit going on. Think about all of the commands you have the ability to run in ...

No more wading through xml files to get what you need. The Get-FormatData cmdlet offers some nice data presentation. PowerShell is all about the objects. At the end of your pipelined expression ...

I've got a powershell script that dynamically generates and ftp script file (to be used by the CLI version of WS-FTP) to grab a file off a server. It recreates the file every day with the GET command ...

I'm learning a little about graph theory and got sidetracked into Powershell text formatting. I'm writing a script that creates a two-dimensional array based on user input and displays the array in a ...