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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Add Help Information for Windows PowerShell Parameters?

January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10

ScriptingGuy1

(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been reading your articles this week about adding Help to scripts, and it looks really cool, but it also seems to be quite a bit of work. I would love to be able to display Help for a script when the script is run with a specific switch, but then it requires testing for the switched parameter and ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! What Should I Include in Windows PowerShell Script Help?

January 6, 2010 Jan 6, 2010 01/6/10

ScriptingGuy1

 (image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I heard your interview the other day on the PowerScripting podcast, and I was really impressed. It is not every day I get to hear one of my heroes be interviewed on a podcast. I wanted to submit a question, but I got too carried away with the flow of things, and before I knew it, Hal was wrapping ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Add Multiline Comments to My Windows PowerShell Scripts?

January 5, 2010 Jan 5, 2010 01/5/10

ScriptingGuy1

(image)   (image) Hey Scripting Guy! I have been trying to add more comments to my Windows PowerShell scripts, but one thing that I really miss is a multiple-line comment character that I had in other programming languages. Not having a multiple-line comment was annoying in VBScript, but it is unacceptable for Windows PowerShell to not ...