{"id":762,"date":"2014-08-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/08\/29\/powertip-hide-common-code-in-powershell-ise\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-hide-common-code-in-powershell-ise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-hide-common-code-in-powershell-ise\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Hide Common Code in PowerShell ISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to hide common code in the Windows PowerShell ISE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I hide related code in the Windows PowerShell ISE to make it easier to troubleshoot and to read?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Open the ISE, and in the script pane, begin a section with the&nbsp;<b>#Region<\/b>&nbsp;tag and a name. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Then end the section with the&nbsp;<b>#EndRegion<\/b>&nbsp;tag. Now everything between the two tags can be collapsed <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and hidden when desired. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">#region Name<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">&nbsp;If($d.name -match&nbsp; &#8216;,&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $name = (Get-Culture).textinfo.ToTitleCase($d.name).Split(&#8216;,&#8217;).trim()<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $ln = $name[0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $fn = $name[1]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">#endregion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to hide common code in the Windows PowerShell ISE. &nbsp;How can I hide related code in the Windows PowerShell ISE to make it easier to troubleshoot and to read? &nbsp;Open the ISE, and in the script pane, begin a section with the&nbsp;#Region&nbsp;tag and a name. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Then end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to hide common code in the Windows PowerShell ISE. &nbsp;How can I hide related code in the Windows PowerShell ISE to make it easier to troubleshoot and to read? &nbsp;Open the ISE, and in the script pane, begin a section with the&nbsp;#Region&nbsp;tag and a name. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Then end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}