Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The installer is a fairly simple class, similar to the cmdlet class, which inherits the PSSnapin class and contains overrides that return information about the cmdlet."

A block of code is set as follows:

Function Multiply-Numbers
{
    Param($FirstNum, $SecNum)
    Try
    {
        Write-Host ($FirstNum * $SecNum)
    }
    Catch
    {
        Write-Host "Error in function, present two numbers to multiply"
    }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

Write-Host "Static Size:`t`t" ...

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