October 2, 2006 / by SAPIEN Technologies / General, Software News / No Comments

PowerShell Help – Built In!

Now showing on the PrimalScript 4.1 Preview Center is our newly-announced built-in dynamic help for Windows PowerShell! Not only does PrimalScript display word-wrapped, pop-up tooltips for PowerShell cmdlets, it also displays the complete cmdlet help in a new “Help” tab within the Output pane. This puts the product’s own documentation right at your fingertips, so there’s no need to open a new instance of the shell and run the help or man commands to find out what’s what.Note: Currently, the “Help” tab of the output pane will populate with help information only when you position your cursor over a cmdlet name and press F1. This is for performance reasons; PrimalScript actually queries the help information from PowerShell itself. After PowerShell releases and our users have had a chance to evaluate this new feature, we’ll look at the possibility of having the cmdlet help show up in the “Help” tab automatically.