Comment-based help
Comment-based help was introduced with PowerShell 2 and allows the author of a script or function to provide content for Get-Help
without needing to understand and work with more complex MAML
help files.
PowerShell includes help for authoring comment-based help:
Get-Help about_Comment_Based_Help
Comment-based help uses a series of keywords that match up to the different help sections. The following list shows the most common ones:
- .
SYNOPSIS
.DESCRIPTION
.PARAMETER <Name>
.EXAMPLE
.INPUTS
.OUTPUTS
.NOTES
.LINK
.SYNOPSIS
and .DESCRIPTION
are typically the minimum supplied when writing help.
.PARAMETER
, followed by the name of a parameter, may be included once for each parameter.
.EXAMPLE
may be used more than once, describing as many examples as desired.
The tag names are not case-sensitive; uppercase is shown here as it is one of the most widely adopted practices. Spelling...