<DIV><p><b>About this Book</b></p><p>You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker.</p><p><i>Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches</i> is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files and documentation and more.</p><p> Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.</p><p><b>What's Inside</b></p><ul><li>Build your own administrative tools</li> <li>Learn by doing with hands-on labs</li> <li>Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets</li></ul><p>This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.</p><p><b>About the Authors</b></p><p><b>Don Jones</b> is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. <b>Jeffery Hicks</b> is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored <i>Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition</i> (Manning 2012) and <i>PowerShell in Depth</i> (Manning 2013).</p><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p>PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING<ol><li>Before you begin</li> <li>PowerShell scripting overview</li> <li>PowerShell's scripting language</li> <li>Simple scripts and functions</li> <li>Scope</li> <h5>PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL</h5> <li>Tool design guidelines</li> <li>Advanced functions, part 1</li> <li>Advanced functions, part 2</li> <li>Writing help</li> <li>Error handling</li> <li>Debugging techniques</li> <li>Creating custom format views</li> <li>Script and manifest modules</li> <li>Adding database access</li> <li>Interlude: creating a new tool 157</li> <h5>PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES</h5> <li>Making tools that make changes</li><br/><li>Creating a custom type extension</li><br/><li>Creating PowerShell workflows</li><br/><li>Troubleshooting pipeline input</li><br/><li>Using object hierarchies for complex output</li> <li>Globalizing a function</li> <li>Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework</li> <h5>PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION</h5> <li>Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI</li> <li>Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code</li> <li>Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output</li> <li>Creating proxy functions</li> <li>Setting up constrained removing endpoints</li> <li>Never the end</li></ol></div>