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Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Book Image

Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

About XAML

XAML is an XML document. XAML is used to describe the components or elements of a user interface. The following example describes a 350 by 350-pixel Window containing a Label:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Window
 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
 Width="350" Height="350">
    <Label Content="Hello world" />
</Window>

The two namespace declarations in the xmlns and xmlns:x attributes are mandatory and cannot be omitted.

The document must first be read into an XmlDocument; you can use the Xml type accelerator to do this. Then you must create a XmlNodeReader; this can be created by casting an XmlDocument. Finally, the document is parsed using the XamlReader to create the user interface controls from the document:

$xaml = [xml]'<?xml version="1.0" encoding...