If you are new to PowerShell and want to get started quickly, take a look at this handy cheat sheet.

Experienced users of Windows PowerShell among you will probably know and already have worked with PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment). PowerShell ISE is a lightweight but very useful IDE which I am using quite often for developing, maintaining and try-running my PowerShell scripts

Whenever I work with a tool on a regular basis I try to learn and use its keyboard shortcuts to be more productive and efficient. That’s why I was really excited when I found out that there was a way of programmatically retrieving all the available keyboard shortcuts in PowerShell ISE.

I discovered this nice little trick on the website Powershell.com which offers a PowerTip of the Day service, providing useful tips or code snippets around PowerShell or the PowerShell ISE.

Lately this PowerTip of the Day offered a code snippet which extracts all the built-in keyboard shortcuts of the PowerShell ISE and displays them in a table. Here is the few lines of PowerShell code for that:

Now we have a fully interactive list view containing all available shortcuts in PowerShell ISE. This makes exploring these shortcuts even easier by being able to sort and filter them using the built-in functionality of the Out-GridView command.

This Power Tip of the Day is a really clever example demonstrating the invaluable advantage we get by just thinking a little bit outside the box. Instead of treating the PowerShell ISE just as a simple tool for creating and maintaining scripts, it becomes a source of information of its own.

Solving small challenges and issues like that is what makes us more productive and efficient in the long run.