Chapter 14. Working with .NET
Windows PowerShell is based on and leverages extensively version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. This means that you can use Windows PowerShell for an enormous range of scripting functionality, taking advantage of the huge range of.NET Framework classes to provide the functionality you need to create custom scripts.
Limitations in version 1.0 of Windows PowerShell tend to reflect the fact that many facets of the Windows operating system are not yet exposed as managed objects. It is likely that an increasing proportion of a Windows system will be exposed as .NET objects in future versions of the .NET Framework and, subsequently, in future versions of Windows PowerShell. In the meantime, Windows PowerShell can be used with existing technologies where .NET classes aren't available. In Chapter 13, for example, I showed you how to work with COM objects from Windows PowerShell.
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