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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

You're reading from   Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 Automate and control administrative tasks using DevOps principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838986
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David das Neves David das Neves
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Jan-Hendrik Peters Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Current PowerShell Versions FREE CHAPTER 2. PowerShell ISE Versus VSCode 3. Basic Coding Techniques 4. Advanced Coding Techniques 5. Writing Reusable Code 6. Working with Data 7. Understanding PowerShell Security 8. Just Enough Administration 9. DevOps with PowerShell 10. Creating Your Own PowerShell Repository 11. VSCode and PowerShell Release Pipelines 12. PowerShell Desired State Configuration 13. Working with Windows 14. Working with Azure 15. Connecting to Microsoft Online Services 16. Working with SCCM and SQL Server 17. PowerShell Deep Dives 18. PowerShell ISE Hotkeys 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Best practice guidelines

Before you can get serious about creating your own reusable code (in the form of functions and modules), you have to think about common best practices and why they exist. You need to get used to following best practices when writing code. In short, applying best practices should come naturally to you.

In an enterprise environment, there are usually code policies already in place. However, they are often tailored to in-house development, using traditional development frameworks like .NET or Java. That should not deter you from adopting the policies as guidelines for your PowerShell code. In this section, you will see that many of the best practices for writing PowerShell code are similar to, if not the same as, other programming languages.

See https://github.com/PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle for a community-maintained approach to PowerShell best...
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