PowerGUI Quick Tip: Create a PowerPack from start to finish in 10 minutes
This Sunday at midnight PST marks the closing of our second annual PowerPack Challenge contest.  The rules of this contest are very simple: create a new PowerPack or modify one of your existing PowerPacks and submit it to the contest folder in the PowerPack Library for a chance to win some cool prizes.  Now you might be thinking: "

PowerShell 3.0: Why wait? Importing typed objects with typed properties from a CSV file
After working exclusively with PowerShell in my career for over two years now, it has become quite clear to me that the single most valuable feature in Microsoft Windows PowerShell, in my opinion anyway, is its extensibility.  In particular, it’s how easily it can be extended in PowerShell itself through a combination of PowerShell scripts and XML files, without the need of a compiler.  There are some features that are a very close second to that (consistency and discoverability), but the extensibility that PowerShell provides is truly second to none. Version 1.0 of PowerShell was extendible from within PowerShell via combinations of PowerShell functions, th