Start-Demo

1.0.1

This script completely transforms the experience of giving a demo, allowing you to focus on your messages instead of typing.

It is REAL in the sense that the commands REALLY run, the script just eliminates your typing.

This script was originally published by Jeffrey Snover at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2007/03/03/start-demo-help-doing-demos-using-p
This script completely transforms the experience of giving a demo, allowing you to focus on your messages instead of typing.

It is REAL in the sense that the commands REALLY run, the script just eliminates your typing.

This script was originally published by Jeffrey Snover at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2007/03/03/start-demo-help-doing-demos-using-powershell/


Show more

Installation Options

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using PowerShellGet More Info

Install-Script -Name Start-Demo

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet More Info

You can deploy this package directly to Azure Automation. Note that deploying packages with dependencies will deploy all the dependencies to Azure Automation. Learn More

Manually download the .nupkg file to your system's default download location. Note that the file won't be unpacked, and won't include any dependencies. Learn More

Owners

Copyright

(C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Jeffrey Snover

Functions

Start-Demo

Dependencies

This script has no dependencies.

Release Notes

- You can specify which file you want to demo (it defaults to “.\demo.txt”)
- You can specify which command to start with (it defaults to 0)
- It shows you the command (both at the prompt and in the Window Title [for the folks at the back of the room) and waits for input. If your input is <CR>, it runs the command.
- You can provide other input and it will do other actions. You can:
- Ask for help using “?”
• Quit at any point
• Dump the list of commands in the demo. It produces a red line above your current point in the demo
• Run another command or Suspend the demo and enter into a nested prompt to explore a topic
• Go to a specified command in the demo
• Find all the commands in the demo using a regular expression
• Check your time. It displays how many minutes and seconds since the start of the demo. This information is also displayed in the Window title on an ongoing basis.

FileList

Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
1.0.1 (current version) 1,081 3/29/2016