Function Get-FormatView {

[cmdletbinding()]

[alias("gfv")]

[OutputType("PSFormatView")]

Param(

[Parameter(HelpMessage = "Specify a typename such as System.Diagnostics.Process.",ValueFromPipeline)]

[ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]

[string]$TypeName = "*",

[Parameter(HelpMessage = "Specify the version of PowerShell this cmdlet uses for the formatting data. Enter a two digit number separated by a period.")]

[system.version]$PowerShellVersion = $PSversionTable.psversion

)

Begin {

Write-Verbose "[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) BEGIN ] Starting $($myinvocation.mycommand)"

#a regular expression pattern to match on the format type

[regex]$rx = "Table|List|Wide|Custom"

} #begin

Process {

Try {

$data = Get-FormatData -Typename $Typename -PowerShellVersion $PowerShellVersion -errorAction Stop | Sort-Object -Property TypeName

}

Catch {

Throw $_

}

if ($data) {

Write-Verbose "[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) PROCESS] Found $($data.count) type definitions"

#$data | Out-String | Write-Verbose

foreach ($item in $data) {

#there might be a collection of typenames

foreach ($tn in $item.TypeNames) {

#$tn | out-string | write-verbose

Write-Verbose "[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) PROCESS] Getting formatting view for $($tn)"

foreach ($view in $item.FormatViewDefinition) {

[PSCustomObject]@{

PSTypename = "PSFormatView"

Format = $rx.Match($view.Control).value

Name = $view.name

Typename = $tn

}

}

} #foreach tn

} #foreach item

} #if data

} #process

End {

Write-Verbose "[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) END ] Ending $($myinvocation.mycommand)"

} #end

} #close Get-FormatView