Get-FormatData - Powershell 2.0 CmdLet

Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting tool based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed for system administrators, engineers and developers to control and automate the administration of Windows and applications.

More than hundred command-line tools (so called "cmdlets") can be used to perform system administration tasks and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). These cmdlets are easy to use, with standard naming conventions and common parameters, and standard tools for piping, sorting, filtering, and formatting data and objects.

Get-FormatData

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Short description
Gets the formatting data in the current session.

Syntax
Get-FormatData [[-TypeName] <string[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Description
The Get-FormatData cmdlet gets the formatting data in the current session.  

The formatting data in the session includes formatting data from Format.ps1xml formatting files (such as those in t
he $pshome directory), formatting data for modules that you import into the session, and formatting data for comman
ds that you import into your session by using the Import-PSSession cmdlet.

You can use this cmdlet to examine the formatting data. Then, you can use the Export-FormatData cmdlet to serialize
 the objects (convert them to XML) and save them in Format.ps1xml files.

For more information about formatting files in Windows PowerShell, see about_Format.ps1xml.