Index

A

• anti-patterns
  • URL / Further reading
• antipatterns
  • about / Code smells, best practices, antipatterns, and technical debt
• assignment statements
  • sequencing / Sequences of assignment statements

B

• behavior-driven development (BDD) / An introduction to Pester
• best practices
  • about / Code smells, best practices, antipatterns, and technical debt
  • URL / Further reading

C

• caption property / Operating system version
• catch and release / Catch and release
• catch statement / try, catch, and finally statements
• cmdlet
  • error behavior / Investigating cmdlet error behavior
• cmdlet, naming convention
  • about / Cmdlet and function naming
• CmdletBinding()
  • about / CmdletBinding()
  • parameter support / Common parameter support
• cmdlets
  • about / Cmdlets
  • Get-Command cmdlet / The big three cmdlets
  • Get-Help cmdlet / The big three cmdlets
  • Get-Member cmdlet / The big three cmdlets
  • verb list, URL / Further reading
• code
  • about / Don't repeat code
• code smells
  • about / Code smells, Code smells, best practices, antipatterns, and technical debt
• code smells
  • Language-agnostic code smells / Language-agnostic code smells
  • PowerShell-specific code smells / PowerShell-specific code smells
  • URL / Further reading
• color, error message
  • issue / The color problem
• comment-based help
  • about / Comment-based help
• Common Information Model (CIM) / Validating operating system properties
• confirm
  • using / Using –confirm and –whatif
• console
  • debugging in / Debugging in the console
• console colors, error message
  • changing / Changing console colors
• content, error message
  • about / Error message content

D

• debugging
  • in console / Debugging in the console
  • in ISE / Debugging in the ISE
• DebugPreference variable / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• disk
  • availability, validating / Validating disk and memory availability
• Dogfooding
  • URL / Further reading
• downstream versions
  • Test-NetConnection, writing in / Writing Test-NetConnection in downstream versions

E

• ErrorActionPreference variable / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• error handling
  • about / Error handling
  • guidelines / Error-handling guidelines
  • techniques / Error-handling techniques
  • cmdlet, error behavior / Investigating cmdlet error behavior
  • catch and release / Catch and release
• error handling, PowerShell
  • trap statement / The trap statement
  • finally statement / try, catch, and finally statements
  • catch statement / try, catch, and finally statements
  • try statement / try, catch, and finally statements
  • non-terminating errors / Non-terminating errors
  • terminating error / Non-terminating errors
• error messages
  • reading / Reading error messages
  • color, issue / The color problem
  • console colors, changing / Changing console colors
  • ISE colors, changing / Changing ISE colors
  • PowerShell profiles / PowerShell profiles
  • content / Error message content
• event logs
  • about / Event logs
  • listing / Listing event logs
  • reading / Reading event logs
  • writing to / Writing to event logs
• Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) / Listing event logs

F

• filter left
  • about / Filter left
• finally statement / try, catch, and finally statements
• foreach-object cmdlet
  • used, for replacing foreach loop / Replacing the foreach loop with the foreach-object cmdlet
• foreach loop
  • replacing, with foreach-object cmdlet / Replacing the foreach loop with the foreach-object cmdlet
• format right
  • about / Format right
• formatting codes
  • URL / Further reading
• fully-qualified domain names (FQDN) / Rolling your own unit tests
• function naming, naming convention
  • about / Cmdlet and function naming
• function output
  • about / Function output
• functions
  • about / Functions

G

• Get-Command cmdlet / The big three cmdlets
• Get-EventLog, filtering parameters
  • -Index / Reading event logs
  • -EntryType / Reading event logs
  • -Message / Reading event logs
  • -Source / Reading event logs
  • -Before and -After / Reading event logs
  • -Newest / Reading event logs
  • -UserName / Reading event logs
• Get-Help cmdlet / The big three cmdlets
• Get-Member cmdlet / The big three cmdlets
• Get-Service cmdlet / Investigating cmdlet error behavior
• Get-Verb cmdlet / Cmdlets
• Get-WinEvent, filtering parameters
  • -FilterXPath / Reading event logs
  • -FilterHashTable / Reading event logs
  • -FilterXML / Reading event logs
  • -MaxEvents / Reading event logs
  • -Oldest (switch) / Reading event logs
• Get-WMIObject cmdlet / Investigating cmdlet error behavior

H

• helper functions
  • about / Helper functions

I

• ICMP connectivity
  • testing / Testing UDP and ICMP connectivity
• input set
  • reducing / Reducing input set
• integrated scripting environment (ISE) / PowerShell strings
• Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) / Write-Progress
• intermediate results
  • viewing, Tee-Object used / Using Tee-Object to see intermediate results
• ISE
  • debugging in / Debugging in the ISE
• ISE colors, error message
  • changing / Changing ISE colors

L

• language-agnostic code smells
  • about / Language-agnostic code smells

M

• Measure-Command cmdlet / Filter left
• memory
  • availability, validating / Validating disk and memory availability
• mocking
  • URL / Further reading
• modularization
  • about / Modularization
  • process, breaking into subtasks / Breaking a process into subtasks
  • single responsibility principle / Single responsibility principle
  • process / Understanding the process
  • URL / Further reading
• module naming, naming convention
  • about / Module naming
• modules
  • about / Modules
• Monad Manifesto
  • URL / Further reading

N

• naming conventions
  • about / Naming conventions
  • cmdlet / Cmdlet and function naming
  • function naming / Cmdlet and function naming
  • parameter naming / Parameter naming
  • module naming / Module naming
  • variable naming / Variable naming
  • URL / Further reading
• network connectivity
  • validating / Validating network connectivity
  • working / Putting it all together
• network connectivity, validating
  • telnet used / Using telnet
  • Test-NetConnection used / Using Test-NetConnection
  • UDP connectivity, testing / Testing UDP and ICMP connectivity
  • ICMP connectivity, testing / Testing UDP and ICMP connectivity
  • implementation, prior to / Validating connectivity prior to implementation
• non-terminating error / Non-terminating errors

O

• operating system properties
  • validating / Validating operating system properties
  • workstation/server version / Workstation/server version
  • operating system version / Operating system version
  • working / Putting it all together
• operating system version / Operating system version
• output objects
  • accumulating / Accumulating output objects

P

• Param() statement / CmdletBinding()
• Param() statements
  • missing / Missing Param() statements
• parameter name
  • validation / Parameter name validation
• parameter naming, naming convention
  • about / Parameter naming
• parameters / Homegrown common parameters
  • blog post, URL / Homegrown common parameters
• parameter type transformation
  • about / Parameter type transformation
  • URL / Further reading
• parameter value
  • validation / Parameter value validation
• Pester
  • about / An introduction to Pester
  • mocking with / Mocking with Pester
  • URL / Further reading
• pipelines
  • about / Pipelines, How pipelines change the game
  • processing / Pipeline processing
  • input / Pipeline input
  • and function execution / Pipelines and function execution
• PowerShell
  • strings / PowerShell strings
  • string substitution / String substitution, How string substitution goes wrong
  • pipeline, processing / Pipeline processing
  • error handling / PowerShell error handling
  • version control, using with / Using version control with PowerShell
  • testing / Why is PowerShell testing difficult?
• PowerShell-specific code smells
  • about / PowerShell-specific code smells
• PowerShell profiles, error message
  • about / PowerShell profiles
• process
  • breaking, into subtasks / Breaking a process into subtasks
  • about / Understanding the process
• ProgressPreference variable / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• PSDiagnostics module
  • about / The PSDiagnostics module
• PSDrives / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• PSProviders / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?

R

• #REQUIRES statements
  • -Verson option / #REQUIRES statements
  • -PSSnapIn option / #REQUIRES statements
  • -Modules option / #REQUIRES statements
  • -ShellID option / #REQUIRES statements
  • -RunAsAdministrator option / #REQUIRES statements

S

• Script Analyzer
  • about / Script Analyzer
  • URL / Script Analyzer, Further reading
• Script Browser
  • URL / Script Analyzer, Further reading
• ScriptCop
  • about / ScriptCop
  • URL / ScriptCop, Further reading
• scripts
  • about / Scripts
• service status
  • validating / Validating service status
• Set-PSDebug
  • using / Using Set-PSDebug
• Set-PSDebug -strict / Set-StrictMode and Set-PSDebug -strict
• Set-StrictMode / Set-StrictMode and Set-PSDebug -strict
• single responsibility principle
  • about / Single responsibility principle
• sorting
  • directory / How pipelines change the game
  • about / What's the fuss about sorting?
• static analysis tools
  • about / Static analysis tools – ScriptCop and Script Analyzer
  • ScriptCop / ScriptCop
  • Script Analyzer / Script Analyzer
• strings, PowerShell
  • about / PowerShell strings
  • substitution / String substitution, How string substitution goes wrong
  • escaping in / Escaping in PowerShell strings
  • double-quoted strings, special characters / Escaping in PowerShell strings
• subtasks
  • process, breaking into / Breaking a process into subtasks
• SupportsShouldProcess
  • about / SupportsShouldProcess
  • parameter name validation / Parameter name validation

T

• Team Foundation Services (TFS) / Using version control with PowerShell
• technical debt
  • about / Code smells, best practices, antipatterns, and technical debt
  • URL / Further reading
• Tee-Object
  • used, for viewing intermediate results / Using Tee-Object to see intermediate results
• telnet
  • used, for validating network connectivity / Using telnet
  • URL / Further reading
• terminating error / The trap statement, Non-terminating errors
• Test-NetConnection
  • used, for validating network connectivity / Using Test-NetConnection
  • writing, in downstream versions / Writing Test-NetConnection in downstream versions
• Test Driven Development (TDD) / Unit testing
• trap statement / The trap statement
• try statement / try, catch, and finally statements

U

• UDP connectivity
  • testing / Testing UDP and ICMP connectivity
• unit testing
  • about / Unit testing
  • rolling / Rolling your own unit tests
  • URL / Further reading
• untyped parameter
  • using / Using untyped or [object] parameters

V

• variable naming, naming convention
  • about / Variable naming
• variables
  • about / Variables
• VerbosePreference variable / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• verbs
  • URL / Cmdlets
  • unapproved / Unapproved verbs
• version control
  • about / Version control
  • using, with PowerShell / Using version control with PowerShell

W

• WarningPreference variable / What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• Web Services Management (WSMAN) / Validating operating system properties
• whatif
  • using / Using –confirm and –whatif
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) / Validating operating system properties
• Windows PowerShell
  • about / Introduction
  • cmdlets / Cmdlets
  • functions / Functions
  • scripts / Scripts
  • pipelines / Pipelines
  • variables / Variables
  • modules / Modules
• workstation/server version, operating system properties / Workstation/server version
• Write-* cmdlets
  • about / Using Write-* cmdlets, What about the other Write-* cmdlets?
• Write-Debug
  • about / Write-Debug
• Write-Error
  • about / Write-Error
• Write-Host
  • about / Write-Host
• Write-Output / Output – the correct way, Which Write should I use?
• Write-Progress
  • about / Write-Progress
• Write-Verbose
  • about / Write-Verbose
• Write-Warning
  • about / Write-Warning