On Friday, February 24, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!). We provide a Pester test script and a script with detailed help but no code, and you add the code to the script to…
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On Friday, February 17, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!).
It shows a PowerShell function with a Write-Verbose command and asks “Why won’t this verbose string print?”
You might think of this as a…
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On Friday, February 3, we posted a Friday Puzzle that shows a PowerShell function and a PowerShell class method that contain the same command sequence, including a statement with the Return keyword.
The puzzle asks: What does the function return?…
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On Friday, January 20, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!).
It shows a Get-ChildItem command where the value of the Path parameter is $PSHome, the Windows PowerShell installation directory, and the value of the…
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On Friday, January 6, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (here, too!).
It shows a Try block that encloses an expression with an intentional error and a Catch block that writes an error. But, when you…
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On Friday, December 16, 2016, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter.
It shows a function that has no comment-based help or XML help, but when you run Get-Help on the function, Get-Help displays both a description and notes for…
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