Windows PowerShell for .NET developers : efficiently administer and maintain your development environment with Windows PowerShell / Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat ; foreword by Sherif Talaat.

Online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed November 16, 2015).

Includes index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell; Scripting the cmdlet style; Introducing Windows PowerShell; Installing Windows Management Framework 5.0; The Windows PowerShell consoles; The Windows PowerShell console host; Using an interactive shell; Windows PowerShell cmdlets; Getting help; Understanding aliases; Understanding expressions; Understanding objects; Understanding pipelines; Exporting a running process to a CSV file

Understanding filtering and formattingPowerShell formatting; Exploring snippets in the PowerShell ISE; Getting started with PowerShell scripting; Summary; Chapter 2: Unleashing Development Skills Using Windows PowerShell 5.0; Basics of WMI and CIM; Working with XML and COM; Exploring COM and Automation; Exploring .NET objects; Creating .NET objects; Extending .NET objects for Administrations and Development tasks; Extending the .NET Framework types; Building advanced scripts and modules; Exploring Windows PowerShell 5.0; The basics of Desired State Configuration; The Authoring phase

The Staging phaseThe ""Make it so"" phase; Use case of classes in WMF 5.0; Constructors; Parsing structured objects using PowerShell; Exploring Package Management; Exploring PowerShellGet; Understanding PowerShell modules; Introduction to modules; Script modules; Binary modules; Manifest modules; Dynamic modules; Script debugging; Managing breakpoints; Line breakpoints; Variable breakpoints; Command breakpoints; Debugging scripts; Summary; Chapter 3: Exploring Desired State Configuration; Prerequisites; Installing the WMF 5.0 April 2015 preview; Imperative versus declarative programming

Getting started with DSCThe Authoring phase; The Staging phase; The ""Make it so"" phase; Local Configuration Manager; Parameterizing the configuration script; Understanding MOF; Exploring Windows Remote Management and CIM; Windows PowerShell remoting; Exploring WSMan cmdlets; HTTP/HTTPS Listener; Exploring CIM commands; Exploring CIM methods; Querying the remote machines using CIM; Creating configuration scripts; Creating a configuration with MOF; Creating a Class-defined DSC resource; Types of deployment modes; The push mode; The pull mode; Creating a pull server using the SMB share

Creating the pull server using HTTP and HTTPSSummary; Chapter 4: PowerShell and Web Technologies; PowerShell Web Access; Installing PowerShell Web Access; Configuring PowerShell Web Access; Applying authorization rules; Management OData IIS Extensions; Creating the Management OData web service; Exploring web requests; Downloading files from the Internet; Reading a file from the Internet; Exploring web services; Using web services; Building web services; Exploring the REST API; Using the Azure REST API in PowerShell; Exploring JSON; Summary

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