{"id":3271,"date":"2009-12-26T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/12\/26\/powershell-help-reader-wow\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:06:04","slug":"powershell-help-reader-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershell-help-reader-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell Help Reader &#8211; WOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexey Martseniuk posted a blog entry in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/communities\/newsgroups\/list\/en-us\/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.powershell&amp;mid=133e6be4-aeaa-490d-b1ad-032c0d947793\">PowerShell NewsGroup<\/a> announcing a new version (V1.2) of the PowerShell Help Reader.&#160; My first reaction is WOW!<\/p>\n<p>Start your wow experience by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/PowershellTools.Com\">http:\/\/PowershellTools.Com<\/a> and checking out the Silverlight-based intro screen.&#160; (You\u2019ll need Silverlight of course but you should have it anyway \u2013 it is awesome.)&#160; This is the harbinger of things to come.&#160; The installed app takes advantage of WPF to deliver an excellent help experience.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The basic edition of the product is free and contains all the features but works only for the built-in PowerShell snap-ins\/modules.&#160; The professional Edition has no limitations.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great looking tool and addresses a lot of the shortcomings of our help.<\/p>\n<p>Great job Alexey!<\/p>\n<p>Experiment!&#160; Enjoy!&#160; Engage! <\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]   <br \/>Distinguished Engineer    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&#160;&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexey Martseniuk posted a blog entry in the PowerShell NewsGroup announcing a new version (V1.2) of the PowerShell Help Reader.&#160; My first reaction is WOW! Start your wow experience by going to http:\/\/PowershellTools.Com and checking out the Silverlight-based intro screen.&#160; (You\u2019ll need Silverlight of course but you should have it anyway \u2013 it is awesome.)&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Alexey Martseniuk posted a blog entry in the PowerShell NewsGroup announcing a new version (V1.2) of the PowerShell Help Reader.&#160; My first reaction is WOW! Start your wow experience by going to http:\/\/PowershellTools.Com and checking out the Silverlight-based intro screen.&#160; (You\u2019ll need Silverlight of course but you should have it anyway \u2013 it is awesome.)&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}