PowerShell visual demos
Documentation: Microsoft Learn
Short interactive scenes show object flow, member inspection and error handling without forcing a long video before you can practice.
Overview
Use the animation to form a mental model, then practise it
Each demo is deliberately short. Step through it, predict the next frame, then open the related interactive tool and reproduce the idea yourself.
Pipeline filtering
Watch service objects enter the pipeline and see how a property-based filter changes the collection.
Object members
Follow a process object into Get-Member and separate properties you can read from methods you can invoke.
Error handling
See how -ErrorAction Stop changes control flow so a terminating error can be handled by catch .
Step through the concepts
Choose a concept, predict the next stage, then advance to inspect the explanation. These are teaching diagrams; no PowerShell executes.
- 1. Source objects
Get-Service - 2. Filter by property
Where-Object Status -eq 'Running' - 3. Select properties
Select-Object Name, Status
Get-Service emits service objects. Filtering keeps matching objects, and selection creates objects with the requested properties.
Try the real sample-data exercise in the pipeline builder, or inspect properties in the object explorer.
