November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
17h 15m
English
Loosely coupling the components is one of the keys to the success of a framework. PowerShell follows this principle as well. All cmdlets are packaged within PowerShell modules. The modules can be first-party provided, created by you, or created by other software vendors.
Initially, extending PowerShell capabilities was done using snap-ins. With PowerShell 2.0, PowerShell modules were introduced. One other place that Microsoft has gotten it right is advocating the use of modules over snap-ins. The installation of PowerShell modules, which could have been a hassle in the past, has been streamlined today. PowerShell now comes pre-packaged with a package manager called PowerShellGet, which connects to ...
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