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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
Book Image

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By: David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

Beginning with an overview of the different versions of PowerShell, Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 introduces you to VSCode and then dives into helping you understand the basic techniques in PowerShell scripting. You will cover advanced coding techniques, learn how to write reusable code as well as store and load data with PowerShell. This book will help you understand PowerShell security and Just Enough Administration, enabling you to create your own PowerShell repository. The last set of chapters will guide you in setting up, configuring, and working with Release Pipelines in VSCode and VSTS, and help you understand PowerShell DSC. In addition to this, you will learn how to use PowerShell with Windows, Azure, Microsoft Online Services, SCCM, and SQL Server. The final chapter will provide you with some use cases and pro tips. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional reusable code using security insight and knowledge of working with PowerShell Core 6.0 and its most important capabilities.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. PowerShell ISE Versus VSCode

In the last chapter, you learned about different PowerShell versions and how to use them. But one of the most important things for creating fast, reusable, high quality code work with good tools. As you know from the previous chapter, one of the most popular tools is the integrated PowerShell ISE in Windows. It provides an easy UI and also some debugging possibilities. Unfortunately, it has not received many updates since it was initially released. This is why other tools were raised in the meantime. One of the most important ones is Visual Studio Code. This chapter will show the differences between the two tools and introduce VSCode. In Chapter 11, VSCode and PowerShell Release Pipelines, this is going to be continued and some advanced techniques with VSCode will be described.

These are the topics we'll be covering in this chapter:

  • Introduction to currently available tools
  • The PowerShell ISE
  • VSCode:
    • Introduction
    • Download
    • Installation
    • First Start
    • Basics
  • The...