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Windows PowerShell for .NET Developers - Second Edition

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Windows PowerShell for .NET Developers - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Windows PowerShell 5.0 for .NET Developers is your self-start guide to performing automation using Windows PowerShell. This book will help you to understand the PowerShell syntax and grammar and will also teach you techniques to remove the rough edges of manual deployments. Packed with PowerShell scripts and sample C# codes to automate tasks, it also includes real-world scenarios such as administrating office servers to help you save time and perform deployments swiftly and efficiently. The book begins with the Windows PowerShell basics, explores the significant features of Windows Management Framework 5.0, covers the basic concepts of Desired State Configuration and the importance of idempotent deployments. By the end of the book, you will have a good understanding of Windows PowerShell’s features and will be able to automate your tasks and manage configuration effectively.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we explored a few, good features of Windows PowerShell, especially the ones related to web technologies. Using this, we can automate tasks such as installing or uninstalling PowerShell Web Access and configuring it, tasks related to web requests, and consuming web services to perform some tasks. As JSON is considered to be an alternative to XML, and is language–independent, we can use it in Windows PowerShell and perform our web-based queries or other tasks easily and effectively.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the usage of Application Programming Interfaces (API) in Windows PowerShell.