Renegade's Random Tech weblog has a simple how-to for converting batch or .VBS scripts into executable forms using a lesser-known Windows program called IExpress.

Recently, however, I was surprised to learn that Microsoft provides a free utility that can convert a PowerShell script into an executable file.

So you've probably envisioned the idea: convert the file that we want to embed into an object file, then it can simply be linked in with the rest of our code. Let's say we have a file name data.txt ...