This is for use with Gaurhoth’s “New-HtmlHelp from VMWare modification” script, although it should work just fine with VMware’s original version.  The New-HtmlHelp script extracts all of the help files from your installed snapins and outputs them to disk in a pretty HTML version complete with index (using frames but hey nobody’s perfect).

My Get-HtmlHelp script simply allows you to go straight to the help for a particular cmdlet (like Get-Help), by opening it in your default web browser.  My script assumes you’ve got a sub-folder under your (split-path $profile) folder called “help” but you can change that to whatever.

function Get-HtmlHelp ($Cmdlet) {

    if ( Get-Command $cmdlet -ea 0 ) {

        $helpdir = Join-Path -Path (Split-Path $profile) -ChildPath "help"

        Invoke-Item ( Join-Path -Path $helpdir -ChildPath "$Cmdlet.html" )

    }

    else { Write-Error "No such cmdlet exists, so sorry for you!" }

}