How to read and use the contents of a website from Powershell?

First we need to create a xmlhttp object, similar to what you would do in JavaScript $objXmlHttp = New-Object -ComObject MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP Use the open method to specify the url, optional username and password. The third parameter (optional) is a boolean indicator...

How to connect to / read from / write to SQL Server from Powershell?

First create the connection object, set the connection string and open the connection: $objSqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection $objSqlConnection.ConnectionString = “Server=YourSqlServer; Database=YourDataBase; User Id=YourUsername;...