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Updatable Help speaks only English! What’s up with that?

January 17, 2013 Jan 17, 2013 01/17/13
PowerShell Team
Our customers have certainly not been shy about their interest in multiple languages of Windows PowerShell Updatable Help, and we're grateful to hear how much they would value localized Help. Our challenge is this: Updatable Help is a new feature for this release of Windows PowerShell, and we have so very many new cmdlets and modules for ...

Cmdlet Help Editor is now released on CodePlex

September 20, 2011 Sep 20, 2011 09/20/11
PowerShell Team
I published the source code for the Cmdlet Help Editor on CodePlex here: http://cmdlethelpeditor.codeplex.com/ . Please feel free to contribute. for more information on the Cmdlet Help Editor, please check out the following post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/09/01/new-and-improved-cmdlet-help-editor-tool.aspx  ...

Keeping Help Helpful: Use -Online and Redirectable Links

April 22, 2011 Apr 22, 2011 04/22/11
PowerShell Team
When you refer to Windows PowerShell help topics, such as in tools and blog posts, be sure to refer to the most recent version of the help topics. Few things are less helpful or more confusing than sending a reader to a topic that is missing a parameter or includes an example that doesn't work. To be sure ...

Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search

April 19, 2010 Apr 19, 2010 04/19/10
PowerShell Team
Beginning today, there's a new way to look at Windows PowerShell cmdlets. You're used to looking at them this way: Or, perhaps, this way: But would you like to look at them this way? What if getting a list of the remoting cmdlets was as easy as clicking a category name? And you could filter to display only the remoting configuration ...

URLs for PowerShell Core Help Topics

July 21, 2009 Jul 21, 2009 07/21/09
PowerShell Team
Several Windows PowerShell online help fans have requested a list of all of the URLs of Windows PowerShell Core online help topics in the TechNet Library. I'm providing them here so that they're available to everyone.   The file includes URLs for the current Windows PowerShell Core conceptual ("about"), cmdlet, and provider help, ...

Function Help Cannot Share a Cmdlet Help File

July 9, 2009 Jul 9, 2009 07/9/09
PowerShell Team
In Windows PowerShell 2.0, you can write help topics for functions, scripts, and modules, just as you do for cmdlets and providers. In fact, as a best practice, you should always include help topics for all shared PowerShell items.  And we make it easy. For functions and scripts, you can write comment-based help topics right in the ...

Adding Custom Cmdlet Help for Providers

May 28, 2009 May 28, 2009 05/28/09
PowerShell Team
A new feature of Windows PowerShell 2.0 lets you write custom cmdlet help for Windows PowerShell providers. This blog explains how to do it. (The topic will also be covered in excruciating detail in MSDN, but we don't want you to wait.)   What's a Provider? A Windows PowerShell provider is a C# program that exposes a data store to Windows...

Adding your own help links to ISE

April 20, 2009 Apr 20, 2009 04/20/09
PowerShell Team
ISE has an F1 help feature, where if you press F1 when your caret is over a cmdlet name, context sensitive help opens. Shay Levy has a nice post on F1 help in the ISE herehttp://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/01/31/using-help-in-powershell-ise.aspxHe adds “I wanted to mimic the way ISE’s help works when you press F1...

Get-Help Can't Find My Help File!

July 16, 2007 Jul 16, 2007 07/16/07
PowerShell Team
(or How to Define the Help File Name in a Custom Windows PowerShell Snap-in)   We've discovered an error in our instructions for creating a custom Windows PowerShell snap-in. This error prevents Get-Help from finding the help files for cmdlets in the snap-in. We'd like to come clean about our mistake and to warn you about the effects of ...