[1\/3\/09 Update – the original link to the attachment containing this code was broken but is now fixed. Sorry. jps]<\/p>\n
It is hard to overstate how important Modules and Advanced Functions are. If you are a PowerShell user – you need to take the time to learn these new mechanisms and use them as your first choice in implementing new functions. The reason for this is that these mechanisms are critical technologies to support SHARING. <\/p>\n
Advanced Functions provide help, parameter tab-completion, and cmdlet semantics that make it easy for other people to use your functions. Who wants to have to keep going back to read the source code to figure out what a function does – you want help. Who wants to guess at the parameters – you want tab completion. Who wants a functions that can have unintended consequences – you want -WHATIF -CONFIRM and -VERBOSE.<\/p>\n
Modules make it easy to package functions and use them in ways that they don’t collide with each other. BTW – I’m not sure whether we’ve been clear on this point or not but Modules provide an alternate mechanism to do what PSSNAPINs did. In fact MODULES work with both PSSCRIPT and DLLs. The benefit of Modules over snapins is that they can be xcopy deployed.<\/p>\n
The only downside of using Modules and Advanced Functions is that they both require extra work when you start writing code. That is why I wrote the Module Module (that is probably a horrible name but I’m going with it for now). This module makes it easy to create Modules and Advanced Functions AND it is a reasonable example of both.<\/p>\n
PS> Import-Module Module CommandType Name Definition New-PSScript requires a VERB and NOUN and optionally takes a number of other parameters and generates the body of a script or a function including help comments. You can then redirect that output into a file. Here is an example:<\/p>\n PS> New-PSScript -Verb Get -Noun MyProcess -Parameter ID ` .Parameter ID [CmdletBinding( Begin Process End New-ModuleTemplate does something similar for Modules. It requires a NAME and it generates a .PSD1 file describing the module and a .PSM1 file with a GET-NAME function. The nice thing about this command is that it takes a switch \u2013EDIT and if you specify it, it will open these files in Powershell_ISE so you can immediately start coding. <\/p>\n Install the module by copying the files to a directory called MODULE in your module directory:<\/p>\n ($Env:PSMODULEPATH -Split “;”)[0]<\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t already created your module directory, you can do this:<\/p>\n PS> New-Item \u2013Type Containter \u2013Force \u2013path ($Env:PSMODULEPATH -Split “;”)[0]<\/font><\/p>\n Now if you are like me, you don\u2019t want to be typing that crap all the time so when you import-Module Module, the first thing it does is to create a PSDRIVE for you called MYMOD.<\/p>\n New-PsDrive -Scope Global -Name MyMod -PSProvider FileSystem -Root (($env:PSMODULEPATH -split “;”)[0])<\/font><\/p>\n Give these a try and let me know what you think. They all have HELP and the HELP has examples so party on.<\/p>\n Again \u2013 it is hard to overstate how important it is to begin using Modules and Advanced Functions. In particular, you should start using them today and let us know if there are any bugs or problems or opportunities for improvement. We have a relatively short window to make any changes for V2 so start today.<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
PS> Get-Command -Module Module <\/font><\/p>\n
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Function New-GUID …
Function New-ModuleTemplate …
Function New-PSScript … <\/font><\/p>\n
>> -Synopsis “This is My Version of GetProcess”
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QQReturnValue
.Link
QQLink
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NAME: Get-MyProcess
AUTHOR: RugratsVista\\jsnover
LASTEDIT: 01\/02\/2009 10:10:24
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