Book description
Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches is now available. An eBook of this older edition is included at no additional cost when you buy the revised edition!
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Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day -- lunchtime would be perfect -- for each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.
About the Technology
About the Book
You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker.
Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files, and more.
What's Inside
- Build your own administrative tools
- Learn by doing with hands-on labs
- Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets
About the Reader
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.
About the Author
Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (Manning 2012) and PowerShell in Depth (Manning 2013).
Quotes
Yet another great book from PowerShell legends, Don and Jeff.
- Thomas Lee, PowerShell MVP
An excellent resource to begin learning a must-have skill set.
- Marc Johnson, Triangle Technology
Take your PowerShell skills to the next level.
- Nathan Shelby, Snohomish Health District
A perfect guide for creating PowerShell tools.
- Christoph Tohermes, netzkern AG
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- About this Book
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Introduction to toolmaking
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Part 2. Building an inventory tool
- Chapter 6. Tool design guidelines
- Chapter 7. Advanced functions, part 1
- Chapter 8. Advanced functions, part 2
- Chapter 9. Writing help
- Chapter 10. Error handling
- Chapter 11. Debugging techniques
- Chapter 12. Creating custom format views
- Chapter 13. Script and manifest modules
- Chapter 14. Adding database access
- Chapter 15. Interlude: creating a new tool
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Part 3. Advanced toolmaking techniques
- Chapter 16. Making tools that make changes
- Chapter 17. Creating a custom type extension
- Chapter 18. Creating PowerShell workflows
- Chapter 19. Troubleshooting pipeline input
- Chapter 20. Using object hierarchies for complex output
- Chapter 21. Globalizing a function
- Chapter 22. Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework
- Part 4. Creating tools for delegated administration
- Appendix. GUI technologies and PowerShell
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2012
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617291166
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