What's in This Book?
When working on the book, I separated it into sections, and this distinction may be helpful to you too.
The first section includes Chapters 1 through 14. It introduces the shell's object-oriented features and its means for providing basic abstraction like script blocks, functions, scripts, aliases, and providers. It is best to read those chapters in sequence to get a solid understanding of the advanced techniques that allow you to work with the shell's type system, get to know its security infrastructure, learn about the documentation facilities, and start using important debugging techniques.
The second section spans Chapters 15 to 21. The text uses advanced scripting techniques to work with .NET, COM, and WMI objects. ...
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