You're reading from PowerShell 7 Workshop Learn how to program with PowerShell 7 on Windows, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812986

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Nick Parlow

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell 7 – What It Is and How to Get It FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets and Syntax

4. Chapter 3: The PowerShell Pipeline – How to String Cmdlets Together

5. Chapter 4: PowerShell Variables and Data Structures

6. Chapter 5: PowerShell Control Flow – Conditionals and Loops

7. Chapter 6: PowerShell and Files – Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data

8. Chapter 7: PowerShell and the Web – HTTP, REST, and JSON

9. Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking

10. Chapter 8: Writing Our First Script – Turning Simple Cmdlets into Reusable Code

11. Chapter 9: Don’t Repeat Yourself – Functions and Scriptblocks

12. Chapter 10: Error Handling – Oh No! It’s Gone Wrong!

13. Chapter 11: Creating Our First Module

14. Chapter 12: Securing PowerShell

15. Part 3: Using PowerShell

16. Chapter 13: Working with PowerShell 7 and Windows

17. Chapter 14: PowerShell 7 for Linux and macOS

18. Chapter 15: PowerShell 7 and the Raspberry Pi

19. Chapter 16: Working with PowerShell and .NET

20. Answers to Activities and Exercises

21. Index

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Summary

We started out by understanding what .NET is – a software framework. We learned that it is based on the Common Language Infrastructure and is similar to .NET Framework in Windows, but it is not the same. We saw that it includes its own runtime, CoreCLR, and a set of libraries, CoreFX. We learned about the relationship between .NET and .NET Framework and how they co-exist. We saw that .NET can be used for many things, including machine learning and Internet of Things applications, but is mostly used for Azure and Windows.

We went through the components of .NET, and we understood how they are related to each other and are represented in PowerShell. We saw the constructor member, a special type of method for instantiating objects, and understood why versioning is frequently confusing.

We then looked at the specifics of how we access .NET libraries from PowerShell, learned about dynamic loading, and then saw how to use the New-Object cmdlet to create instances of classes...