- SAMPLE POWERSHELL SCRIPTS TO LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS HOW TO
- SAMPLE POWERSHELL SCRIPTS TO LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS GENERATOR
But let’s start with the assumption, hardly realistic, I’m sure, that you do not have any doc-comments in your code and see what you can already do. Once you have instrumented your modules with doc-comments to satisfy Get-Help, you need surprisingly little extra work to supply to Convert-HelpToHtmlTree.
SAMPLE POWERSHELL SCRIPTS TO LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS HOW TO
This article discusses how to generate a complete API for a PowerShell library. (You can find my entire API bookshelf here and download libraries here.)
SAMPLE POWERSHELL SCRIPTS TO LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS GENERATOR
(Note that the Perl version Pod2HtmlTree is Perl-specific while the T-SQL one uses my generic XML conversion tool XmlTransform configured to handle SQL documentation, described in Add Custom XML Documentation Capability To Your SQL Code.) The PowerShell generator (written in PowerShell, of course!) is a function in my DocTreeGenerator module called Convert-HelpToHtmlTree. So over the years I created an API-level documentation generator for Perl, later for T-SQL, and most recently for PowerShell. On the other hand, languages like Perl with perldoc and PowerShell with Get-Help, generate only isolated module documentation, which I found rather unsatisfactory. Java has javadoc and C# has Sandcastle, both of which generate a complete, cross-linked API documentation set. But documenting individual methods or classes or files is not the same as documenting an API. Most modern languages provide some level of support to assist in creating your documentation, where you instrument your code with documentation comments ( doc-comments for short) that may then be automatically extracted and formatted to generate some documentation. When you write library code-code for you or others to consume in other projects-it is almost useless without proper documentation. Controlling Output with the Page Template.How to Document Your PowerShell Library.