Writing Award Winning PowerShell Functions and Script Modules
summary
Shows concrete recipes for turning one‑liners into reusable tools using PowerShell and PowerShell Core, Visual Studio Code and ISE, GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery; demonstrates parameter validation, CmdletBinding, supports ShouldProcess, pipeline binding, try/catch with ErrorActionPreference, module manifests and custom format XMLs. Builds a reusable mr. toolkit module and a Plaster template for new modules, runs Pester checks, and reports 600,000+ blog hits and a Scripting Games advanced win — the demos create modules, import manifests, and the formatting and tests work.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45About Mike Robbins
- 3:55Who is using BSCode
- 7:24Windows Updates
- 11:09Learning is Not Equal
- 12:51The Thought Process
- 18:02Module Autoloading
- 20:22What is a Function
- 21:17Naming
- 23:48Demo
- 24:06New Module
- 24:45Get Verb
- 26:45Remove PS Version
- 28:20DotSourcing
- 29:08DotSourcing Error
- 31:12Rename
- 31:34No Profile
- 32:45Remove Function
- 33:03Hungarian Notation
- 35:28Variable Name
- 35:59PowerShell Jedi
- 38:06Parameter Naming
- 40:56Calling the function
- 43:38Parameters
- 45:45What If and Confirm
- 46:58Free Book
- 48:23Parameter Validation
- 52:08Dynamic Parameters
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