Installing PSGraph

Make sure you are running Powershell 5.0 (WMF 5.0). I don't know that it is a hard requirement at the moment but I plan on using 5.0 features.

# Install GraphViz from the Chocolatey repo
Register-PackageSource -Name Chocolatey -ProviderName Chocolatey -Location http://chocolatey.org/api/v2/
Find-Package graphviz | Install-Package -ForceBootstrap

# Install PSGraph from the Powershell Gallery
Find-Module PSGraph | Install-Module

Generating your first graph

PSGraph has a unique syntax for defining a graph. This is because it was built specifically for the GraphViz engine. Here is a basic graph to get you started.

# Import Module
Import-Module PSGraph

graph "myGraph" {
    edge start,middle,end        
} | Export-PSGraph -ShowGraph

This will create a new graph with three nodes linking each other.

It will save it in the $env:temp folder because we did not specify a destination. It will then show the graph when it is done.