December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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23.9 Bringing .NET to the Command Line with PowerShell
Not so long ago, command-line user interfaces were the only way to interact with a computer. Advances in graphical user interfaces have made command-line shells unfashionable, and many people have made predictions about those shells disappearing completely. So why has Microsoft created yet another command-line interface?
The command line has one advantage that GUIs lack—ease of automation. The limiting console interface is the greatest weakness, but it is also the greatest strength, as it offers a standardized way to “talk” to programs. That standardization allows us to write scripts that drive long-running and complex processes. The Windows PowerShell (previously known as “Monad”) team has gone even further by changing text pipelining between commands into object pipelining.
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Tool | Windows PowerShell (previously known as “Monad”) |
Version covered | RC1 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | An interactive command-line shell and complete scripting environment |
License type | Microsoft EULA |
Online resources | Documentation, examples, newsgroups, team blog |
Supported Frameworks | .NET 2.0 |
Related tools in this book | PowerShell IDE |
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