February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
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As you develop your own scripts and functions, or even if you dive into .NET Framework programming and create your own binary cmdlets, you’ll doubtless want to include help with them. PowerShell’s help system is a crucial feature for shell users, giving them the ability to discover, learn, and use commands. Without help, your functions and cmdlets become essentially invisible, unlearnable, and unusable. Fortunately, PowerShell makes it relatively easy to write your own help.
One thing we’ve seen in recent Scripting Games is that many people try to develop their own way of delivering help. This is a bad idea because ...