{"id":75401,"date":"2015-11-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/11\/28\/powertip-add-custom-function-to-runspace-pool\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:52","slug":"powertip-add-custom-function-to-runspace-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-add-custom-function-to-runspace-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Add Custom Function to Runspace Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Boe Prox shows how to add a custom function to a runspace pool.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to add a custom function to a runspace pool?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the following approach:<\/p>\n

#Custom Function<\/p>\n

Function ConvertTo-Hex {<\/p>\n

    Param([int]$Number)<\/p>\n

    ‘0x{0:x}’ -f $Number<\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

#Get body of function<\/p>\n

$Definition = Get-Content Function:\\ConvertTo-Hex -ErrorAction Stop<\/p>\n

#Create a sessionstate function entry<\/p>\n

$SessionStateFunction = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.SessionStateFunctionEntry
-ArgumentList ‘ConvertTo-Hex’, $Definition<\/p>\n

#Create a SessionStateFunction<\/p>\n

$InitialSessionState.Commands.Add($SessionStateFunction)<\/p>\n

 #Create the runspacepool by adding the sessionstate with the custom function<\/p>\n

$RunspacePool = [runspacefactory]::CreateRunspacePool(1,5,$InitialSessionState,$Host)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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