In Wrox's Professional PowerShell Programming, readers are treated to a guided tour of PowerShell from a programmer's perspective as Microsoft PowerShell development team member Arul Kumaravel skillfully guides readers through all the ins and outs of the PowerShell SDK, and shows them how to create extensions to PowerShell and integrate PowerShell capabilities into their own applications. Coverage includes:

* Extending PowerShell Engine with Snapins
* Adapter Implementations
* Developing Cmdlets
* Developing Providers - Drive, item, navigation, container Providers and more
* Hosting PowerShell Engine in applications
* Creating Applications that Use a Custom Host
* Extending Object Types and Formatting
* and more.

Companion website at Wrox.com includes complete source code downloads.


Providing you with the programmer's approach to understanding Windows PowerShell, this book introduces you to the concepts, components, and development techniques for building software packages that leverage the power of PowerShell. This author team of PowerShell experts shows you how PowerShell makes writing code easy by providing a runtime engine with its own parser, and you'll see how PowerShell offers functionality that enables you to add custom formatting when objects are displayed.

You'll find out how PowerShell's robust SDK allows you to take advantage of PowerShell within your own applications. Plus, you'll discover that with PowerShell, all of the .NET Framework objects become accessible via scripting, making PowerShell a very powerful addition to your toolbox and a popular choice for future development. Once you begin performing the tasks associated with writing command-line utilities, you'll quickly learn how PowerShell permits you to direct your attention to the business logic of your applications.

What you will learn from this book

* How to create a PowerShell snap-in
* Writing your own custom cmdlets
* Creating custom providers
* Calling to the PowerShell execution engine
* Implementing a host user interface
* Extending types and formatting

Who this book is for
This book is for developers and programmers who want to extend the functionality of Windows PowerShell technologies and extend their applications by using PowerShell.