Design Your PowerShell Functions to Be Reusable

re: Design Your PowerShell Functions to Be Reusable

Brian T Young — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:10:09 GMT

@June Blender

June thank you for your diligent work to create the help comments, they are invaluable and I use them extensively. I also put them in all of my functions. I love comment based help.

Regards,

Brian

re: Design Your PowerShell Functions to Be Reusable

Brian T Young — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:07:05 GMT

Great article Andy, thanks. Klaus hit the nail on the head with his comments.

The scripting games this year sure did solidify and improve my scripting skills. I have already developed and implemented custom functions that are reusable and utilize the pipeline.

To add to the comments from Klaus and the article, keep things simple, have your function do one thing and do it well.

Regards,

Brian

re: Design Your PowerShell Functions to Be Reusable

June Blender — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:32:02 GMT

-- Start PowerShell with the -NoProfile switch. This prevents you from using functions, variables, and aliases from your profile in your script.

-- Always add help. :)

Thanks, Andy!

June Blender [MSFT]

Windows PowerShell Documentation

re: Design Your PowerShell Functions to Be Reusable

Steve Murawski — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:14:46 GMT

Klaus beat me to saying it.. this article ties together a bunch of the other wrap up articles.

Nice work Andy.

re: Design Your PowerShell Functions to Be Reusable

Klaus Schulte — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:07:54 GMT

Thanks Andy,

this is a very pragmatical approach to writing reusable functions!

Some good advise and the hope that we may improve our style after a couple of functions have been written ... right!

Refering to the previous articles, all these aspects lead to reusabilty:

- Comment your work wisely ( use comment-based-help )

- name the variables in an approprate way

- use objects

- ... and so on ...

Remembering them helps to write reusable functions!

Kind regards, Klaus