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$JobScript = @"
    &{ 
      `$DebugPreference = 'Continue'
      Write-Debug "Start(Ticks) = `$((get-date).Ticks)"
    }

    & { $ScriptBlock } @args

    &{
        `$DebugPreference = 'Continue' 

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Add-Type -TypeDefinition @'
    using System;
    using System.Management.Automation;

    public class DynamicParamExample
    {
        [Parameter()]
        [ValidateSet("one", "two", "three")]
        public string MyDynamicParameter { get; set; }
    }

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	if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('ConfigurationData')) {
		Write-Verbose ""
		Write-Verbose "Resolving ConfigurationData"
		$ScopeToCheck = 1
		do {
			try {
				$ConfigurationData = Get-Variable -scope $ScopeToCheck -Name 'ConfigurationData' -ValueOnly -ErrorAction Stop
			}
			catch {
				Write-Verbose "`t`tNothing in scope $ScopeToCheck for ConfigurationData"

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$ConfigurationData = @{
    AllNodes = @(
        @{
            NodeName = 'Server01'
            Applications = @{
                Mercurial = @{
                    Name = 'Mercurial 2.5.1 (x64)'
                    ProductId = 'F39802E0-BE92-4896-A67B-85144CF01831'
                    SourcePath = '\\servername\sharename\Mercurial\'
                    Installer = 'mercurial-2.5.1-x64.msi'

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$configData = @{
    AllNodes = @(
        @{
            NodeName = '*'
            AllNodesProperty = 'AllNodesValue'
        }

        @{
            NodeName = 'Node1'
            FilterNumber = 1

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if ($reallyLongConditionThatIDontFeelLikeMakingUpRightNowSoIllJustUseAVariableNameNumberOne -and
    $reallyLongConditionThatIDontFeelLikeMakingUpRightNowSoIllJustUseAVariableNameNumberTwo) {
    Do-Something
}

# Versus:

if ($reallyLongConditionThatIDontFeelLikeMakingUpRightNowSoIllJustUseAVariableNameNumberOne -and
    $reallyLongConditionThatIDontFeelLikeMakingUpRightNowSoIllJustUseAVariableNameNumberTwo)
{

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$utilsType = [scriptblock].Assembly.GetType('System.Management.Automation.PsUtils')
$flags = [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]'Instance, Static, Nonpublic'

$method = $utilsType.GetMethod('EvaluatePowerShellDataFileAsModuleManifest', $flags)
$context = $ExecutionContext.GetType().GetField('_context', $flags).GetValue($ExecutionContext)

$path = (gmo bitstransfer -list).Path
$hashTable = $method.Invoke($null, @($null, $path, $context, $true))

$hashTable

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#requires -version 2

#
# Powershell Snake Game
# Author : Kurt Jaegers
#

function SetEmptySquare($x, $y)
{
    $matrix[$x, $y] = $emptysquare

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# Import the stuff you'll be testing.  Could be dot-sourcing a ps1 file here, importing a module, whatever you need.
# If importing a mdoule, make sure you've only got one copy of it imported, or weird things can happen when you start
# to get into mocking.

Remove-Module [S]omeDscResource
Import-Module $PSScriptRoot\SomeDscResource.psm1

# All of the Pester tests in a script must go inside a Describe block; you can mave many Describe blocks in the same
# script, if you like.  Make sure to put the opening brace on the same line as Describe, since this is just a function
# pretending to be a keyword; no assistance from the parser allowing us to put opening braces on their own lines.

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function ConvertTo-Hashtable
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
        [psobject[]] $InputObject
    )

    process
    {