Redmond Magazine

Using Configuration Files to Control PowerShell Scripts, Part 3

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Edit a CFG File and Save It As a CFG File

A file ending with the extension "CFG" contains configuration settings used on your computer. The file format is plain text, which means you can use a free plain text editor such as Windows Notepad to ...
InfoWorld

What is TOML? An easier way to configure Python apps and more

TOML format files consist of key-value pairs, where keys are strings and values can be one of a number of types. In some ways it’s reminiscent of the Microsoft Windows .ini file format, but with ...
InfoWorld

7 YAML gotchas to avoid—and how to avoid them

YAML is a human-readable configuration file format that is flexible and easy to understand, but fraught with unexpected pitfalls. Here’s how to dodge its most precarious issues. The YAML (“YAML Ain’t ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Configuration Files to Control PowerShell Scripts, Part 1: The Basics

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...