PowerShell Module Browser site lets you search for cmdlets & packages

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The Redmond-based Microsoft Corporation has successfully turned on the PowerShell Module Browser site. Earlier this month, the Microsoft Docs team announced that PowerShell Module Browser, a web search page for finding PowerShell scripts and information to go live.

PowerShell Module Browser site

PowerShell Module Browser Site will be used by the users to find specific cmdlets or modules. Further, a search will provide the users with a description and parameters for a script. Moreover, the users volition also be able to become the script itself, which can be copied. This search portal is organized in such a fashion that its users volition be able to select a specific PowerShell package in social club to search inside, or they can fifty-fifty deport a search across "all packages."

You will no longer accept to spend tens of minutes trying to figure where the correct cmdlet is located, or whether a specific module is part of the PowerShell package that you just installed. All you take to do, is open the Powershell Module Browser and get-go searching, says Microsoft.

What is PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is an automation platform and scripting language for Windows and Windows Server. It allows users to simplify the direction of their systems. PowerShell really harnesses the power of the .Cyberspace Framework and thus provides rich objects and a massive set of born functionality in society to take control of Windows environments.

The search procedure isn't wholly intuitive

The search process in PowerShell Module Browser Site isn't wholly intuitive. For instance, if a user wants to search for the Azure PowerShell Machine Learning module; and then typing "Azure" gives the user a list of modules to ringlet through. The bodily module chosen "AzureRM.Auto", can be found in this way. Notwithstanding, by simply typing "Azure PowerShell Auto Learning" in the search box will not produce whatever results. The search window looks equally follows:

Click on the drop-downwardly menu under 'All Packages'. Hither you lot will see packages such as Azure PowerShell, Azure Stock PowerShell, etc.

Locate cmdlets more speedily

The PowerShell Module Browser Site will certainly help users more rapidly locate cmdlets. Microsoft's proclamation suggested that the site may besides be helpful in figuring out "whether a specific module is part of the PowerShell package that the user just installed."

What is a cmdlet

A cmdlet is a lightweight command, which is used in the Windows PowerShell environment. Further, the PowerShell runtime invokes these cmdlets within the context of automation scripts, which are provided at the command line. Furthermore, the Windows PowerShell runtime also invokes them programmatically through Windows PowerShell APIs.

This new website seems to be supplemental to the "Module Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE".

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