Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Microsoft is finally saying goodbye to PowerShell 2.0 — the 14-year-old command-line tool and scripting language that debuted alongside Windows 7 — as part of a broader effort to clean up legacy code ...

QuietShell is a command-line application for headless PowerShell execution supporting both in-process runspaces and out-of-process execution models. QuietShell eliminates console window visibility ...

PowerShell has a feature called dynamic parameters that allows you to add parameters to a cmdlet based on the value of another parameter. This is useful when you have a parameter that can take ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Cmdlets are the workhorse of PowerShell. They are small, single-purpose commands that perform specific actions. Cmdlets follow a verb-noun naming convention, where the verb describes the action and ...