You may want to take the survey<\/a> that was put out by the community group organizing the next Windows PowerShell Deep Dive in Redmond, Washington at the Microsoft Campus in April 2013. This is a great chance to make your voice heard.<\/p>\n One of the things I really like about Windows PowerShell 3.0 (in general—not necessarily in Windows 8) is that it is more discoverable than previous versions of Windows PowerShell. Now, don’t get me wrong. Even Windows PowerShell 1.0 was highly discoverable. In fact, the same three cmdlets you used then still work: Get-Help<\/b>, Get-Command<\/b>, and Get-Member<\/b>. They are still the most basic cmdlets you will use. However, there is now a new one now. Show-Command<\/b> is the name of the new cmdlet. You do not pipe a cmdlet to the Show-Command<\/b> cmdlet. This generates an error (as illustrated here when I piped the Get-Process<\/b> cmdlet to Show-Command<\/b>).<\/p>\n To use the Show-Command<\/b> cmdlet, you can specify the name of the cmdlet to Show-Command<\/b> when calling it. This technique is shown here.<\/p>\n Show-Command -Name Get-Process<\/p>\n When you do this, the Show-Command<\/b> window appears, and the Windows PowerShell console pauses until you close the Show-Command<\/b> window or you specify parameters for the cmdlet. In the example shown here, I add a process name to the Show-Command<\/b> window prior to pressing Run<\/b> to run the command.<\/p>\n After the Run<\/b> <\/i>button is pressed, the Show-Command<\/b> window closes, and the created Windows PowerShell command is written to the Windows PowerShell console. Then the command executes, and the results appear in the console. This is illustrated in the image shown here.<\/p>\n Another way to use the Show-Command<\/b> cmdlet is to simply launch the Show-Command<\/b> window. It details all the commands from all modules. To explore commands from a specific module, select it from the Modules<\/b> <\/i>drop-down list. This works even for custom modules. In the image shown here, I select my WMI module, and it displays all of the advanced functions that are contained in that module.<\/p>\n If I want to, I can choose one of the commands, and the dialog changes to display the parameters from the command. I can then run the command, or copy the command that gets created.<\/p>\n Keep in mind that I was demonstrating how to use this useful tool from within the Windows PowerShell console, but it also exists in the new and improved Windows PowerShell ISE.<\/p>\n That is about it for today, join me tomorrow for more Windows PowerShell cool stuff.<\/p>\n I invite you to follow me on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.<\/p>\n Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about discovering Windows PowerShell 3.0 cmdlets. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. There are still a few tickets available for Windows PowerShell Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 15, 2012. 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