February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
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Windows PowerShell includes an Extensible Type System (ETS). A type, in Power-Shell’s world, is a data structure that describes what a type of data looks like, as well as what capabilities that type of data has. For example, there’s a type that represents a Windows service. The type says that a service has a name, a description, a status, and other properties. The type also says that a service has methods enabling you to stop the service, start it, pause it, resume it, and so on.
Types are generally born within the .NET Framework that ...