PowerShell SnippetRace 20-2021

Platy, Taskbar, CSV, Hangman

Events

  • Azure-Cloud Cafe
    This will happen as a virtual event June 1st 19:00. We will focus on 3 topics:
    IoT Central – Sensors -> Data -> Information, how to get up to speed fast !
    – Power Automate Desktop, an introduction
    – Microsoft PowerApps

    See all the details in the link.
  • ARM vs. PSARM – Toolsbattle to manage your Cloud-Resources
    July 22nd, we will discuss and demo the difference between Azure Resource Manager and the new PowerShell ARM Module. Join us to get an overview on whats best for you.

Trainings

  • currently no trainings scheduled

Snippets

PlatyPS 2.0.0-Preview1 released

One of the promises of the PS engineering group is going to be reality soon. Write PowerShell help in JSON with PlatyPS ! As described and demoed in out recent usergroup-meeting PlatyPS is actively developed further and elevated to a prerelease version 2.0.0-Preview1. Read the announcement and give it a try !

Hiding Taskbar Search

Managing Desktops is probably the number two objective after managing Active Directory for PowerShell. Jeffrey Hicks wrote some code to hide the taskbar search. Nice !

CSV CSV CSV

CSV is a very old format for list-data, but still commonly used to export data between different systems. Jeffrey Hicks (again) wrote a custom CSV-importer with some useful enhancements. Blog post about it and code can be found here.

HangMan

Writing games with Powershell is rare, so i picked this one up. a neat little hangman game, which also works in PS7. Link to Github.

Hangman screenshot

Happy start into the week ! R.

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