Writing Comment-Based Help Topics

You can write comment-based Help topics for functions and scripts using special Help comment keywords.

The Get-Help cmdlet displays comment-based Help in the same format in which it displays the cmdlet Help topics that are generated from XML files. Users can use all of the parameters of Get-Help, such as Detailed, Full, Example, and Online, to display function and script Help.

You can also write XML-based Help topics for scripts and functions and use the Help comment keywords to redirect users to the XML-based topics or other topics.

In This Section

• Syntax of Comment-Based Help - Describes the syntax of comment-based help.
• Comment-Based Help Keywords - Lists the keywords in comment-based help.
• Placing Comment-Based Help in Functions - Shows where to place comment-based help for a function.
• Placing Comment-Based Help in Scripts - Shows where to place comment-based help for a script.