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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

Summary

User interfaces are a common requirement in PowerShell, and even though PowerShell is written to run as a shell it is still possible to create advanced user interfaces.

WPF includes a wide variety of different controls that can be combined to build a user interface. The initial layout of a WPF UI can be described in a XAML document, reducing the amount of code required to create the interface. A designer can be used to help generate the XAML content if required.

Simple controls such as Grid, StackPanel, and DockPanel can be used to place controls without a need to resort to absolute or coordinate-based positioning within an interface.

Controls can be given names within the XAML document allowing PowerShell to find controls to attach event handlers or change values at runtime.

Elements of the user interface can be added or changed in event handlers. A ListView control was used to demonstrate a dynamically created view of an object created in PowerShell.

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