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June 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18There won’t be much code in today’s post, but this can be a useful feature to know about.
In addition to the expandable and literal strings we talked about, we can also use something called a Here String. Here strings allow us to have quote characters inside of our string that match the quote characters we use to create that string.
May 15, 2018May 15, 201805/15/18Welcome back to PowerShell for Programmers, this week I’m trying gitGist again for the code blocks. Let me know what you think about it vs the normal syntax highlighter I use 🙂
As we’ve seen in the other posts about functions,
April 24, 2018Apr 24, 201804/24/18I 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:
Before the function keyword (I like it up here)
Between the open curly brace and the param() statement
At the bottom of the function before the closing curly brace (I hate this spot)
For scripts we just put it at the top of your script before you type the param() statement,
March 27, 2018Mar 27, 201803/27/18In 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.
March 14, 2018Mar 14, 201803/14/18Welcome 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.
