This post is part of the series on AutoCompletion options for PowerShell! Click the banner for more posts in the series!
Previously in this series, we reviewed a few ways to add AutoComplete onto your functions, covering Param AutoCompletion and Dynamic Parameters. In this post, we’ll spend a LOT of time typing in the present to help our future selves save fractions of a second, because there’s no way we’ll become less lazy, right? At the end of the day, we will have achieved the holy grail of Attaboys, and have Output Autocomplete working in our function.
Output AutoComplete
You know how in PowerShell you can type a cmdlet, then pipe into Select-Object or another cmdlet and start tabbing through property names? This is the type of Autocompletion we are going to add to our function in this post!
Not only does this save you from making mistakes, but it is amazingly convenient and really gives our functions a polished and professional look and feel. PowerShell’s ability to do this highlights one of its distinguishing features as well!
Dynamic Type System
Warning: this next part is probably kind of boring
If you’re like me, you read things and then just gloss over all of the words and symbols you don’t know, assuming they’re unimportant. If I just described you, then I hate to be the one to tell you this, but that is kind of a tremendous character flaw. I’ll get around to why this is bad and how it relates to PowerShell, but first, take us on a detour into my past. Continue reading →
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