Book description
Windows Powershell in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised edition of the bestselling book on PowerShell, written by Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, codesigner of the PowerShell language, and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. The definitive book on PowerShell V2.
About the Technology
Windows PowerShell transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. PowerShell, an elegant dynamic language from Microsoft, lets you script administrative tasks and control Windows from the command line. Because it's a full-featured, first-class Windows programming language, programmers and power-users can now do things in a shell that previously required VB, VBScript, or C#.
About the Book
This expanded, revised, and updated Second Edition preserves the original's crystal-clear introduction to PowerShell and adds extensive coverage of v2 features such as advanced functions, modules, and remoting. It includes full chapters on these topics and also covers new language elements and operators, events, Web Services for Management, and the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment.
The First Edition's coverage of batch scripting and string processing, COM, WMI, and .NET have all been significantly revised and expanded. The book includes many popular usage scenarios and is rich in interesting examples that will spark your imagination. This is the definitive book on PowerShell v2!
What's Inside
- Batch scripting, string processing, files, and XML
- PowerShell remoting
- Application of COM and WMI
- Network and GUI programming
- Writing modules and scripts
About the Reader
Written for developers and administrators with intermediate level scripting knowledge. No prior experience with PowerShell is required.
About the Author
Bruce Payette is a founding member of the PowerShell team at Microsoft. He is codesigner and principal author of the PowerShell language.
Quotes
First he wrote the language, then he wrote the book.
- Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft
Not just a reference. It’s worth reading cover to cover.
- Jason Zions, Microsoft
Unleashes the power in PowerShell.
- Sam Abraham, SISCO
Even better than the original.
- Tomas Restrepo, winterdom.com
Still the definitive reference.
- Keith Hill, Agilent Technologies
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Learning PowerShell
- Chapter 1. Welcome to PowerShell
- Chapter 2. Foundations of PowerShell
- Chapter 3. Working with types
- Chapter 4. Operators and expressions
- Chapter 5. Advanced operators and variables
- Chapter 6. Flow control in scripts
- Chapter 7. PowerShell functions
- Chapter 8. Advanced functions and scripts
- Chapter 9. Using and authoring modules
- Chapter 10. Module manifests and metadata
- Chapter 11. Metaprogramming with scriptblocks and dynamic code
- Chapter 12. Remoting and background jobs
- Chapter 13. Remoting: configuring applications and services
- Chapter 14. Errors and exceptions
- Chapter 15. The PowerShell ISE and debugger
- Part 2. Using PowerShell
- Chapter 16. Working with files, text, and XML
- Chapter 17. Extending your reach with .NET
- Chapter 18. Working with COM
- Chapter 19. Management objects: WMI and WS-MAN
- Chapter 20. Responding in real time with eventing
- Chapter 21. Security, security, security
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781935182139
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