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Mastering PowerShell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206540
Length 788 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell 2. Modules and Snap-Ins FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Operators 5. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 6. Conditional Statements and Loops 7. Working with .NET 8. Strings, Numbers, and Dates 9. Regular Expressions 10. Files, Folders, and the Registry 11. Windows Management Instrumentation 12. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON 13. Web Requests and Web Services 14. Remoting and Remote Management 15. Asynchronous Processing 16. Graphical User Interfaces 17. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks 18. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters 19. Classes and Enumerations 20. Building Modules 21. Testing 22. Error Handling 23. Debugging and Troubleshooting 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index

Summary

Some errors in PowerShell come up again and again, and being able to spot and identify such errors can reduce the amount of time spent attempting to isolate a problem. Several common problems were introduced based on real-world bugs.

Not every bug can be attributed to a common error, and sometimes a more extensive investigation is required. PowerShell includes a debugger that you can use from either the command line or an editor to isolate bugs.

Visual Studio is a PowerShell editor that simplifies using the PowerShell debugger. It makes it easier for a developer to use line-based debugging.

This chapter brings this book to a close. PowerShell is full of rabbit holes to dive down and explore, more than is possible to include in this book.

Perhaps one of the most prominent features of PowerShell is consistency. Each command, each module, is presented consistently, and each has help immediately available.

The move to .NET Core and open source has opened interesting...

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