Learn PowerShell Toolmaking (EPUB)

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Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.  You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker.Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, helpfiles, and more.

What's Inside

Build your own administrative tools
Learn by doing with hands-on labs
Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.

Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING

Before you begin
PowerShell scripting overview
PowerShell's scripting language
Simple scripts and functions
Scope

PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL

Tool design guidelines
Advanced functions, part 1
Advanced functions, part 2
Writing help
Error handling
Debugging techniques
Creating custom format views
Script and manifest modules
Adding database access
Interlude: creating a new tool 157

PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES

Making tools that make changes
Creating a custom type extension
Creating PowerShell workflows
Troubleshooting pipeline input
Using object hierarchies for complex output
Globalizing a function
Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework

PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION

Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI
Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code
Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output
Creating proxy functions
Setting up constrained removing endpoints
Never the end