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Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what youre learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a daylunchtime would be perfectfor each self-contained lesson. Youll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.
About this Book
You dont have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker.Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunchesis the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. Its packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what youre learning. Its an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files, and more.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Whats Inside
Build your own administrative tools Learn by doing with hands-on labs Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.
About the Authors
Don Jonesis a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer.Jeffery Hicksis a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthoredLearn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition(Manning 2012) andPowerShell in Depth(Manning 2013).
Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING
Before you begin PowerShell scripting overview PowerShells scripting language Simple scripts and functions Scope PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL Tool design guidelines Advanced functions, part 1 Advanced functions, part 2 Writing help Error handling Debugging techniques Creating custom format views Script and manifest modules Adding database access Interlude: creating a new tool 157 PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES Making tools that make changes
Creating a custom type extension
Creating PowerShell workflows
Troubleshooting pipeline input
Using object hierarchies for complex output Globalizing a function Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output Creating proxy functions Setting up constrained removing endpoints Never the end

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Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches
Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks

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Preface

Way back in 2012, some six years after Windows PowerShell was born, Jeff and I wrote Learn Windows PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches. The word toolmaking was important to us. My first job out of high school was working as an aircraft mechanic, and one of the first trades I was exposed to was the machine shop. Imagine a hot, humid warehouse in Norfolk, Virginia, full of noisy machines chipping away at chunks of metal. Machinists would spend hours, sometimes, setting up a milling machine with various tools and diesfancy drill and router bits, basicallythat would carve a block of metal into a useful aircraft part. You went home with your hair full of metal chips, your skin covered in lubricants, and your ears ringing from all the noise. I swore I didnt want to become one of these tool users. Of course someone has to wield the tools, and theres nothing wrong with it. I just didnt want it to be me.

But tucked away at the back of the warehouse was a small, enclosed, air-conditioned office. The men and women there wore dress shirts and sat in front of computers all day, designing the tools and dies the machinists used. These tool and die makers, or toolmakers, got paid more, had a better work environment, and generally hadin my post-teenager viewbetter lives. I promised myself that in order to escape my personal hellhole of a workplace, Id work hard to become one of them.

That attitude served me well after I shifted into IT a few years later. As a LAN manager for a Bell Atlantic subsidiary (its part of Verizon, now), my help desk and Tier 2 guys brought me plenty of problems to solve, and my solution almost every time was to write a script for them. That way, those tool users could solve problems on their own, and I could act as a force multiplier, enabling them to solve problems rather than spending all my time solving them. Making tools for others is, in many ways, the highest IT calling for me, and Ive devoted significant effort to making sure I was always in that kind of enabler position. Plus, I dont get calls from users or late-night pagesbonus!

Candidly, this books titleLearn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunchesis a total search engine optimization ploy. People search for PowerShell Scripting a lot more than PowerShell Toolmaking. But now that you have the book in your hands, physically or digitally, know that Jeff and I are going to try and make you a toolmaker, not just a scripter. If youre not sure what the difference is, dont worryitll become clearer as you go. Weve rewritten this entire book, dropped content that strayed away from toolmaking, and added contentlike automated testing, publishing your code, and so onthat sits firmly within the realm of toolmaking. Weve taken everything weve learned in the last four or five years and brought it to this new title. Our goal is to make you the best toolmaker you can possibly be, to make you a force multiplier within your organization, and to put your career on the firmest footing possible. Thanks for joining us, and enjoy the ride.

D ON J ONES

Acknowledgments

Books simply dont write, edit, and publish themselves. We would like to thank everyone at Manning Publications who decided to take a chance on a very different kind of book for Windows PowerShell, and who worked so hard to make this book happen. Wed like to acknowledge our peer reviewers who kept us honest, including Bruno Sonnino, Edul Chikhliwala, Foster Haines, Jan Vinterberg, Justin Coulston, Reka Horvath, Roman Levchenko, and Shankar Swamy.

Wed also like to extend a big thank you to everyone who purchased a MEAP edition, which reflects your confidence in the quality of our work. We hope we meet your standards.

Finally, a sincere thank you to the entire PowerShell community. You are a spirited, hard-driving bunch who keep us motivated and energized.

About this Book

In this book, were pretty careful to walk you through everything you need to know about PowerShell scripting and toolmaking, beginning with its important. But there are a few administrative details we should get out of the way:

  • Be prepared to follow along. If a chapter has a hands-on exercise, theres a reason for thatits good for your brain to complete the exercise. Well discuss this a bit more in .
  • Read the chapters in order. Again, explains why; for now, know that its in your best interests to follow the narrative weve constructed. Well expose you to specific problems so youll know more about why things are happening, and well also show you how to script.
  • Download the code. Manning hosts a zip file with this books sample code, and we suggest you download it from www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-scripting-in-a-month-of-lunches. Follow along with the code open in an editor, if possible, because itll look a great deal nicer than what we can print in a book.
Join the community

We suggest that you look around and find a community of active PowerShell enthusiasts to become your new best friends. Youre definitely going to run into problems as you pursue your new scripting avocation, and colleagues are the best source for help. Find a local user group, or even make a website like PowerShell.org a regular stopping place. This will take effort on your part, and its far easier to ignore this important aspect of your career. Dont.

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