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iPowerShell and PowerShell Help Community Edition

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:00 pm
by arcanecode
Hi, I just bought the iPowerShell, looks to be a neat handy app. I love the fact that it's extensible by writing our own properly formatted XML files, which brings me to my question. Is the file format used by iPowerShell the same as what the PowerShell Help Community Edition uses? In other words, if I write an XML file with the help I need, could I use it in both apps? Thanks, Robert Cain / ArcaneCode

iPowerShell and PowerShell Help Community Edition

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:25 am
by Alexander Riedel
The XML format is a standard PowerShell help file format and supported by both applications, yes. Please see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx
for the exact format specifications.

Please note that the XML sample on this page has some typos in it.

iPowerShell and PowerShell Help Community Edition

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:30 am
by arcanecode
Awesome, thanks for the quick response Alexander. I just blogged about iPowerShell at http://arcanecode.com/2012/04/04/ipowershell/, please let me know if you see any inaccuracies. Thanks,Robert

iPowerShell and PowerShell Help Community Edition

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:29 am
by Ferdinand Rios
Thank you for he nice blog article. I will put your suggestions on our potential feature list.