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Changing user preferences within (VB) cmdlet

Last Post 24 Oct 2009 11:32 PM by Archdeacon. 2 Replies.

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24 Oct 2009 05:16 AM
I have writen a PSSnapin in Visual Basic but can find no information on the following points: 1. How can the variables VerbosePreference and DebugPreference be changed during runtime? 2. How can the settings from PSCmdlet.vb be accessed from the console? (Using Get-PsSnapin MyDll only returns Name,Description & PSVersion). 3. How can one Exit the cmdlet at any point (without throwing an exception)? 4. What needs to be done to make Get-Help Get-MyCmdlet to work? 5. How can I access the equivalant of PowerShell MyInvocation.MyCommand during runtime, ie the commandline the user entered? Any advice please?

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24 Oct 2009 06:41 AM
I'm short on time right now. As for #4, you may want to check this: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/ar...-tool.aspx The format required for creating a help file isn't documented AFAIK...

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24 Oct 2009 11:32 PM
Many thanks for the prompt reply on that one. I will check it out.

Retired computer operator/programmer from Rutherford High Energy Lab (UK), European Space Agency and Amadeus Global Ticketing (Germany). Now dabble with PCs only, using Windows, VBscript, Visual Basic and PowerShell. An assortment of utilities is available on the web site at www.SeaStarDevelopment.Bravehost.com for free download. Started working on computers in 1969 on the IBM mainframe 360/75 which was later upgraded to System 360/195 (the largest computer in Europe at that time) and had access to the Bitnet, or ArpaNet (American Research Project Association), which has now become the Internet.

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