Windows PowerShell in Action

Part 2. Using PowerShell

Part 1 covered the PowerShell language and runtime features in great detail; however, those features were discussed mostly in isolation. In part 2, we shift our focus to combine the features we learned about in part 1 into larger examples. Now we’ll look at applying PowerShell in specific technology areas and problem domains.

We begin in chapter 10, looking at how PowerShell can be used to attack the kind of text processing tasks that have been the traditional domain of languages such as Perl. In chapter 11, we look at how we can discover and apply the vast capabilities of the .NET framework from PowerShell. In chapter 12, we’ll look at how to use and apply other Microsoft object technologies, specifically COM and WMI. ...