Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches

Chapter 15. Interlude: creating a new tool

We’re not going to teach you anything new in this chapter. Instead, we’d like to take a brief break from the learning and focus on reinforcing what you’ve done so far, using a different example. This chapter, then, is basically one giant lab. You’ll be walking through every step of the toolmaking process (as we’ve covered it thus far) and creating an all-new tool for yourself.

 

Note

In the example Lab Answers provided at http://MoreLunches.com, we’ll provide you with an example script for each section of this chapter. That way, if you get lost, you can catch up by looking at our example for that point.

 

15.1. Designing the tool

This chapter will require that you have a Windows 8 or Windows Server ...