Windows PowerShell for Developers

Preface

1. Introduction
-This Is Just the Beginning
-Why Use PowerShell
-There's a New Game in Town
-An Underutilized Development Tool

2. Getting Started
-Installing PowerShell
-Interactivity, the Key to PowerShell
-Running a PowerShell Script
-PowerShell ISE
-Other PowerShell Editors
-PowerShell and Visual Studio
-The PowerShell Community
-The Future of PowerShell on Windows 8
-Summary

3. The Dime Tour
-The Object Pipeline: The Game Changer
-Automation References
-Semicolons
-Return Statements
-Datatypes
-Exception Handling
-Quoting Rules
-PowerShell Subexpressions in Strings
-Here-Strings
-Closures, Functions, and Lambdas
-Arrays
-Parentheses and Commas
-Hash Tables
-Get-Member
-Inject a GUI into the PowerShell Command Line
-New-Object
-Add-Member
-Add-Type
-“What Does % Do?- and Other Aliases
-Modules
-Summary

4. Accelerating Delivery
-Scanning for const Definitions
-Working with Template Engines
-Generating PowerShell Functions from C# Methods
-Calling PowerShell Functions from C#
-Overriding C# Methods with PowerShell Functions
-Summary

5. Add PowerShell to Your GUI
-Embedding PowerShell in your C# Application
-Beaver Music Application
-Getting the PowerShell Console in Your App
-Summary

6. PowerShell and the Internet
-Net.WebClient
-Wrapping Code in a PowerShell Function
-Reading XML-Formatted Data from the Web
-Invoke-RestMethod
-PowerShell and The New York Times Semantic API
-New-WebServiceProxy
-Invoke-WebRequest
-Summary

7. Building GUI Applications in PowerShell
-Why a Chapter About GUIs?
-PowerShell and WinForms
-PowerShell, ShowUI, and the Twitter API
-A Twitter GUI Application
-ShowUI Video Player
-Summary

8. DLLs, Types, Properties, Methods, and Microsoft Roslyn
-Sending Text to the Clipboard
-Transcoding C# to PowerShell
-Microsoft's Roslyn
-Using PowerShell to Display Visual Studio Detail
-Roslyn's Document Methods
-PowerShell Roslyn Class Viewer
-Summary

9. Writing Little Languages in PowerShell
-Adding a New Construct to PowerShell
-PowerShell: A Better XML
-The Little Language in Action
-Graphviz
-Mix and Match PowerShell and GraphViz
-Summary

10. PowerShell, COM, and More
-Opening a File in Excel Using Invoke-Item
-Calling an Excel Function
-Discovering Available Excel Functions
-Automating Excel from PowerShell
-Discovering Other COM Applications to Automate
-Summary

11. PowerShell Version 3
-PowerShell Workflows
-Using PowerShell with Web Data: Converting to and from JSON
-Creating an Instance of a Microsoft .NET Framework Object
-Get-Content -Tail
-ISE v3
-Out-GridView and the -PassThru Parameter
-Scheduling Jobs
-Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod
-PowerShell v3 Items That Are a Must-See
-Summary

Appendix A: Productive PowerShell
Appendix B: Running PowerShell with the .NET 4.0 Runtime