Windows PowerShell for Developers

The PowerShell platform gives developers seamless integration with legacy .Net code while adding a range previously not seen in a language. With this book you will quickly learn the fundamentals, and move on to writing rich, sophisticated scripts to manage key tasks and processes in your development activities. PowerShell .Net for Developers begins with a cheat sheet of language primitives to get you on your feet with the language. You ll see how to speed up nearly every aspect of the development process using PowerShell.

List of contents

Preface;
Audience;
Assumptions This Book Makes;
Contents of This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
We'd Like to Hear from You;
Safari® Books Online;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
1.1 This Is Just the Beginning;
1.2 Why Use PowerShell;
1.3 There's a New Game in Town;
1.4 An Underutilized Development Tool;
Chapter 2: Getting Started;
2.1 Installing PowerShell;
2.2 Interactivity, the Key to PowerShell;
2.3 Running a PowerShell Script;
2.4 PowerShell ISE;
2.5 Other PowerShell Editors;
2.6 PowerShell and Visual Studio;
2.7 The PowerShell Community;
2.8 The Future of PowerShell on Windows 8;
2.9 Summary;
Chapter 3: The Dime Tour;
3.1 The Object Pipeline: The Game Changer;
3.2 Automation References;
3.3 Semicolons;
3.4 Return Statements;
3.5 Datatypes;
3.6 Exception Handling;
3.7 Quoting Rules;
3.8 PowerShell Subexpressions in Strings;
3.9 Here-Strings;
3.10 Closures, Functions, and Lambdas;
3.11 Arrays;
3.12 Parentheses and Commas;
3.13 Hash Tables;
3.14 Get-Member;
3.15 Inject a GUI into the PowerShell Command Line;
3.16 New-Object;
3.17 Add-Member;
3.18 Add-Type;
3.19 "What Does % Do?" and Other Aliases;
3.20 Modules;
3.21 Summary;
Chapter 4: Accelerating Delivery;
4.1 Scanning for const Definitions;
4.2 Working with Template Engines;
4.3 Generating PowerShell Functions from C# Methods;
4.4 Calling PowerShell Functions from C#;
4.5 Overriding C# Methods with PowerShell Functions;
4.6 Summary;
Chapter 5: Add PowerShell to Your GUI;
5.1 Embedding PowerShell in your C# Application;
5.2 Beaver Music Application;
5.3 Getting the PowerShell Console in Your App;
5.4 Summary;
Chapter 6: PowerShell and the Internet;
6.1 Net.WebClient;
6.2 Wrapping Code in a PowerShell Function;
6.3 Reading XML-Formatted Data from the Web;
6.4 Invoke-RestMethod;
6.5 PowerShell and The New York Times Semantic API;
6.6 New-WebServiceProxy;
6.7 Invoke-WebRequest;
6.8 Summary;
Chapter 7: Building GUI Applications in PowerShell;
7.1 Why a Chapter About GUIs?;
7.2 PowerShell and WinForms;
7.3 PowerShell, ShowUI, and the Twitter API;
7.4 A Twitter GUI Application;
7.5 ShowUI Video Player;
7.6 Summary;
Chapter 8: DLLs, Types, Properties, Methods, and Microsoft Roslyn;
8.1 Sending Text to the Clipboard;
8.2 Transcoding C# to PowerShell;
8.3 Microsoft's Roslyn;
8.4 Using PowerShell to Display Visual Studio Detail;
8.5 Roslyn's Document Methods;
8.6 PowerShell Roslyn Class Viewer;
8.7 Summary;
Chapter 9: Writing Little Languages in PowerShell;
9.1 Adding a New Construct to PowerShell;
9.2 PowerShell: A Better XML;
9.3 The Little Language in Action;
9.4 Graphviz;
9.5 Mix and Match PowerShell and GraphViz;
9.6 Summary;
Chapter 10: PowerShell, COM, and More;
10.1 Opening a File in Excel Using Invoke-Item;
10.2 Calling an Excel Function;
10.3 Discovering Available Excel Functions;
10.4 Automating Excel from PowerShell;
10.5 Discovering Other COM Applications to Automate;
10.6 Summary;
Chapter 11: PowerShell Version 3;
11.1 PowerShell Workflows;
11.2 Using PowerShell with Web Data: Converting to and from JSON;
11.3 Creating an Instance of a Microsoft .NET Framework Object;
11.4 Get-Content -Tail;
11.5 ISE v3;
11.6 Out-GridView and the -PassThru Parameter;
11.7 Scheduling Jobs;
11.8 Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod;
11.9 PowerShell v3 Items That Are a Must-See;
11.10 Summary;
Productive PowerShell;
Getting Automation Approved;
Saving Time with Automation;
Adding Aliases to Your PowerShell Profile;
Adding Variables and Functions to Your PowerShell Profile;
Remote Desktop Connection;
Starting Another PowerShell Session;
Using PowerShell's Tokenizer;
PowerShell and Older Tools;
Faster, Faster-The Light Is Turning Red;
Summary;
Running PowerShell with the .NET 4.0 Runtime;

About the author

Doug Finke, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for PowerShell, is a software developer at Lab49, a company that builds advanced applications for the financial service industry. For the last 20 years, Doug has been a developer and author working with numerous technologies. You can catch up with Doug at his blog Development in a Blink at http://dougfinke.com/blog/.

Product details

• Authors: Finke, Douglas Finke, Finke Douglas
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Languages: English
• Product format: Book
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9781449322700
• ISBN: 978-1-4493-2270-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Weight: 352 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft, COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Server, Windows programming