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Pro Windows PowerShell

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Hristo Deshev
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  • Our book will address the weaknesses in competitors—we’ll have many real-world examples, content for both power users and developers, and more accessible scenarios
  • The PowerShell market is expanding, and the tool’s inclusion with Windows Server 2008 will increase its popularity still more
  • Our author has a reasonably strong blog platform and contacts within the Powershell team at Microsoft

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Objects and Object Types

    Pages 1-31

  3. Controlling Execution Flow

    Pages 33-54

  4. The Object Pipeline

    Pages 55-67

  5. Working with Script Blocks

    Pages 69-86

  6. Working with Functions

    Pages 87-106

  7. Command Aliases

    Pages 107-125

  8. Providers

    Pages 127-137

  9. Script Files

    Pages 139-154

  10. Error Handling and Debugging

    Pages 155-196

  11. Signing Scripts

    Pages 197-217

  12. The Shell Environment and Its Configuration

    Pages 219-236

  13. Extending the Type System

    Pages 237-252

  14. Getting Help

    Pages 253-273

  15. Taming Processes and Services

    Pages 275-284

  16. Input and Output

    Pages 285-296

  17. Monitoring Your System

    Pages 297-313

  18. PowerShell and the World Wide Web

    Pages 315-347

  19. Sending E-mail

    Pages 349-365

  20. Talking to COM Objects

    Pages 367-393
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About this book

Windows power users have always envied their friends running UNIX machines for the ease of automation that they enjoy. The traditional Windows command–line shell, cmd.exe, has never been up to par with shells like bash or tcsh, especially when it comes to text processing and process automation.

Windows PowerShell changes all that. This next–generation shell is also a full–blown scripting environment with a real programming language that allows users to access every part of their operating system. Files, registry entries, and COM and .NET objects are all supported by PowerShell, which makes manipulating them a breeze.

Pro Windows PowerShell will show you how to use all this power in your own work. You'll discover the object–oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. You'll then learn how to use those features to solve real–world problems: manipulating files, working with text, monitoring systems, and performing operations over the network. The book serves as not only a tutorial, but also a reference: the “Real World” part is structured so that it can be read nonlinearly and used as a reference or a cookbook. And you'll find freely available tools and extensions that will help you do things even faster.

Pro Windows PowerShell is your best companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers you.


         

      

                

About the author

Hristo Deshev is a group product manager for Telerik, a leading vendor of ASP.NET controls (Telerik.com). He has been working on component development for the past several years, focusing on creating rich, highly interactive Ajax solutions. A major goal of his and his team is "taming web development" applying agile software engineering practices to create robust solutions targeting all modern web browsers and supporting multiple ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET versions. You can reach Hristo via e-mail at hristo.deshev@telerik.com and on his blog at http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/twisted_asp_net.



                

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