Using PSScriptAnalyzer to check your PowerShell code for best practices

Are you interested in learning if your PowerShell code follows what the community considers to be best practices? Well, you’re in luck because Microsoft has a new open source PowerShell module named PSScriptAnalyzer that does just that. According to the GitHub page for PSScriptAnalyzer, it’s a static code checker for PowerShell modules and scripts that checks the quality of PowerShell code by running a set of rules that are based on best practices identified by the PowerShell team and community....

November 19, 2015 · 3 min · 622 words · Mike F. Robbins