Introducing PowerShell
PowerShell is a scripting language with an accompanying command-line shell created by Microsoft to automate tasks on Windows. PowerShell has a strong focus on system administrators. PowerShell has the .NET framework at its core, and hence brings all the features and the excellent library support to system administration activities.
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PowerShell is not just for system administrators. It is for developers too. To stress this point, there is even a book called Windows PowerShell for Developers, Douglas Finke, O'Reilly Media.
With a strong scripting language powered by the .NET framework and its focus on automating tasks, PowerShell makes for a good platform for creating build tools.
PowerShell-based build tools
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