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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

Handling events

An event is raised in a UI when a button is pressed, when a selection changes, when a key is pressed, and so on.

To react to an event, an event handler must be created and attached to the control that raises the event.

Event handlers must be added before ShowDialog() is run.

The list of possible events for the Window is extensive. Microsoft Docs lists the events and briefly describes each: https://docs.microsoft.com//dotnet/api/system.windows.window#events.

One possible event is pressing the Escape key while the UI has focus. It might be desirable to close the UI in this case. This is the KeyDown event and can be attached to the Window object.

For example, a KeyDown handler can be added to the following UI:

$xaml = '<?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...