Professional Windows PowerShell Programming: Snapins, Cmdlets, Hosts and Providers

By Arul Kumaravel, Jon White, Guohui Xie, et al.

Providing you with the programmer's approach to understanding Windows PowerShell, this book introduces the concepts, components, and development techniques for building software packages that leverage the power of PowerShell. The author team of PowerShell experts shows you how PowerShell makes writing code easy by providing a runtime engine with its own parser, plus you'll discover that with PowerShell, all of the .NET Framework objects become accessible via scripting, making PowerShell a very powerful addition to your toolbox and a popular choice for future development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470173939
• ISBN13: 9780470173930
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Wrox
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

The definitive guide to PowerShell development

I've been developing PowerShell cmdlets for the past year and half for the PowerShell Community Extensions project. I really wish I had this book when I started. It would have saved me a ton of time. Having everything documented in one place alone would have been a huge timesaver. The examples in the book are really good and should give any would-be developer of PowerShell cmdlets or providers a huge jumpstart. One minor quibble is that the formatting on some of the sample code output wraps making it harder to interpret the results. Other than that it is a fantastic compendium of the knowledge necessary to start knocking off some heavy duty cmdlets and providers.