Web scraping is a process that extracts massive amounts of data from websites automatically, with a scraper collecting thousands of data points in a matter of seconds. It grabs the Hypertext Markup ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

Automation in Excel has advanced well beyond basic formulas and macros, allowing more efficient handling of repetitive tasks. Excel Off The Grid explains how combining Office Scripts with Power ...

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...

Because many password generators aren't as random as they seem, I built an improved one in Excel—and I'll show you exactly how you can, too. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...