Windows PowerShell™ 2.0 Best Practices

Chapter 11. Planning for Modules

• Locating and Loading Modules 375

• Installing Modules 381

• Including Functions by Dot-Sourcing 391

• Adding Help for Functions 397

• Additional Resources 406

Windows PowerShell 2.0 introduces the concept of modules.A module is a package that can contain Windows PowerShell cmdlets, aliases, functions, variables, and even providers. In short, a Windows PowerShell module can contain the types of items that you might put into your profile, but it can also contain items that previously required a developer to incorporate into a Windows PowerShell 1.0 snap-in.

There are several advantages to using modules instead of snap-ins. The first advantage is that anyone who can write a Windows PowerShell script can create a module.Another ...