Recently, I posted an article about using localized data in your function’s messages. My reasoning is that I want to have a consistent user experience across all functions in my module. I also took this concept and applied it to how I was displaying messages, specifically verbose output.

In my functions, I typically use verbose statements like this:

Write-Verbose "[$((Get-Date).TimeOfDay)] BEGIN  ] Starting $(MyInvocation.MyCommand)"

My verbose statements tend to be structured with some prefix, like the time an indicator; I often display the function script block like Begin and a message. This gets to be repetitive in my code. And what if I want to change the layout? I don’t want to be forced to update all the functions in my module.