Scripting Blog

Doing More With Functions: Comment-Based Help

Kory ThacherApril 24, 2018Apr 24, 201804/24/18

I just wanted to throw together a post highlighting how cool and easy it is to add help data to your own Functions and scripts. The help data gets added via comments. For functions the help data can go in three places: For scripts we just put it at the top of your script before you type the param() statement, or at the ...

Doing More With Functions: Taking Parameters on the Pipe

Kory ThacherMarch 27, 2018Mar 27, 201803/27/18

In an earlier post, I showed you how you could use the [parameter(mandatory)] attribute to force your parameters to behave  a bit more like you'd expect from other languages. We also have a bunch of other useful attributes we can use on our parameters to enable cool features. Pipelineing The pipe might feel pretty magical to you in ...

PowerShell for Programmers: The Magic Switch!

Kory ThacherMarch 14, 2018Mar 14, 201803/14/18

Welcome back everyone, I'm trying out GitHub Gist for my code blocks this week. It lets you click and download them, as well as making them easy to edit. The downside is that I can't use my usual dark themed syntax highlighting. Let me know in the comments if you like gist or the old method better :) Switch statements in PowerShell are ...