If you want to build an Azure Functions app with PowerShell, don't start in Azure. That may sound counterintuitive, but in this video, Anthony Howell, PowerShell consultant and DevOps engineer at ...

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 ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

One of the language constructs that makes Windows PowerShell unique is the pipeline. Although the pipeline was long a staple of various shells, PowerShell improved upon the traditional concept by ...

Describes how functions that specify the CmdletBinding attribute can use the methods and properties that are available to compiled cmdlets. All the methods and properties of the PSCmdlet class are ...

Parameterized SQL queries can make PowerShell tools more secure and reliable while preserving smart quotes, emojis and other complex input. As a freelancer, I have a number of proprietary tools and ...

In this article, you learn the high-level concepts surrounding triggers and bindings for functions. Triggers cause a function to run. A trigger defines how a function is invoked, and a function must ...