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OK, candidate #1 for publication: http://docs.opscode.com/dsl_recipe_helper_windows_platform.html

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Thanks James. Looking good overall; a couple of things:

• I found the intro graf a little wordy. Maybe something like this: "The Recipe DSL provides support for determining the specific platform version in a Microsoft Windows environment by using a utility method inside the Chef::ReservedNames::Win32::Version class" ?
• Some code errors in the third code block: Ruby uses "elsif" not "elseif", and also the brackets around each conditional are unnecessary, i.e. if windows_version.handler_name? is sufficient)
• marketing_name doesn't have a question mark on the end of it, since it just returns a string. (In Ruby, methods that return booleans have a '?' by convention; otherwise they don't.) It also doesn't really mean the Microsoft marketing name, so it won't return "Blue" for Windows 8.1; it'll return "Windows 8.1".
• You can mention that the example installs Powershell 2.0 on systems that don't have it, and it's a publicly-available cookbook at https://ckbk.it/ms_dotnet2 if people want to refer to it.

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... and updated!

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Cool, thanks James! Couple last things...

• marketing_name doesn't "test for" the marketing name, it just displays it.
• The output on the last line of the document is garbled.

Other than that it's great.

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All fixed, hooked into main docs, open source, enterprise builds.

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