Bug

[derekthecool]

Description

Hi, thanks for the wonderful project! I use EZout in all of my powershell modules, thank you!

This is not actually a bug, instead it is either a lack of my understanding of using EZOut or perhaps powershell does not even allow this.

I'm trying to create a format view for raw primitive data types. In this case I really want to create a format view if for System.Int32.
Perhaps this is not even possible, but I thought I'd check with you here.
I really want to see decimal and hexadecimal format.

Here is my code I've attempted this with which I have saved in a file Numbers.format.ps1 in my module.

Write-FormatView `
    -TypeName 'System.Int32' `
    -Name DotsInt32View `
    -Property Hex `
    -VirtualProperty @{
    Hex = {
        "{0:X}" -f $_
    }
    Dec = {
        $_
    }
}

This generates the following in my output ps1xml file.

    <View>
      <Name>DotsInt32View</Name>
      <ViewSelectedBy>
        <TypeName>System.Int32</TypeName>
      </ViewSelectedBy>
      <TableControl>
        <TableHeaders>
          <TableColumnHeader>
            <Label>Hex</Label>
          </TableColumnHeader>
        </TableHeaders>
        <TableRowEntries>
          <TableRowEntry>
            <TableColumnItems>
              <TableColumnItem>
                <ScriptBlock>
        "{0:X}" -f $_
    </ScriptBlock>
              </TableColumnItem>
            </TableColumnItems>
          </TableRowEntry>
        </TableRowEntries>
      </TableControl>
    </View>

This output from Write-Host shows how I would love to have numbers formatted by default

$Number = 1234; Write-Host "$Number " -NoNewline; Write-Host "0x$([convert]::ToString($Number, 16).ToUpper())" -ForegroundColor Green
# prints this
# 1234 0x4D2

Reproducable Steps

None, not a bug

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