Everyday PowerShell for Developers

Pluralsight

Course Summary

This course is about the stuff you do everyday - working with code and Visual Studio, source control, building software, etc - and how you can apply PowerShell to make these things easier on you.

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Course Description

This course is about the stuff you do every day - working with code and Visual Studio, source control, building software, etc - and how knowing just enough PowerShell can make these things easier on you. Each module of the course presents applied and practical uses of PowerShell to the everyday life of a software developer. You will be introduced to PowerShell, shown how to automate things you do in Windows Explorer, and how to leverage all of your .NET knowledge from the interactive PowerShell console. Then you will learn how to effectively use legacy console applications, how to customize the PowerShell environment. You’ll gain knowledge of how to use a multitude of third-party PowerShell modules and how to tame your software builds using the PSake PowerShell Module. You will finish off the course by looking at StudioShell.

Course Description

This course is about the stuff you do every day - working with code and Visual Studio, source control, building software, etc - and how knowing just enough PowerShell can make these things easier on you. Each module of the course presents applied and practical uses of PowerShell to the everyday life of a software developer. You will be introduced to PowerShell, shown how to automate things you do in Windows Explorer, and how to leverage all of your .NET knowledge from the interactive PowerShell console. Then you will learn how to effectively use legacy console applications, how to customize the PowerShell environment. You’ll gain knowledge of how to use a multitude of third-party PowerShell modules and how to tame your software builds using the PSake PowerShell Module. You will finish off the course by looking at StudioShell.

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Course Syllabus

Overview and PowerShell Primer
- 35m 56s

—Overview 5m 43s
—PowerShell Environments 2m 14s
—Expressions and Variables 4m 46s
—Flow Control 2m 2s
—Discover Stuff using Help 5m 11s
—Finding Commands and Making Mistakes 3m 34s
—Pipelines 2m 39s
—Members, Where-Object, and Foreach-Object 3m 36s
—Scripts and Execution Policy 2m 49s
—Module Summary 1m 4s
—Get-Help 2m 18s

Cutting Corners in Windows Explorer
- 22m 48s

—PowerShell and .NET 1m 56s
—Location, Location, Location 2m 20s
—PowerShell Drives 2m 19s
—The Item Cmdlets 1m 35s
—Invoke-Item 1m 26s
—Demo: Push-Project 2m 29s
—Functions 2m 21s
—Profiles 2m 10s
—Profiles and Hosts 2m 18s
—Push-Project Summary 0m 58s
—Module Summary 1m 54s
—Get-Help 1m 2s

Using .NET From PowerShell
- 33m 7s

—PowerShell and .NET 1m 46s
—Creating Objects 3m 41s
—Referencing Types 1m 8s
—Using Static Members 2m 4s
—Using Instance Members 0m 56s
—Handling Events 4m 22s
—More Handling Events 4m 18s
—Loading Assemblies 4m 24s
—Summary 1m 41s
—Demo: Sandbagging Automation 2m 53s
—The convertTo-Sandbags.ps1 Script 3m 46s
—Demo: Sandbagging Automation Revisited 1m 0s
—Get-Help 1m 8s

Creating a Rich Mercurial Environment in PowerShell
- 43m 5s

—PowerShell Commands vs. Console Applications 2m 35s
—Using Console Applications in PowerShell 3m 41s
—Demo: Capturing Commands as PowerShell Functions 3m 55s
—Supporting Pipeline Operations in Functions 5m 28s
—Customizing the PowerShell Prompt 4m 7s
—Demo: A Mercurial-Aware Prompt 4m 45s
—Demo: Automating Bisections - Introduction 6m 19s
—Demo: Automating Bisections - The Find-HgChangeset Function 4m 21s
—Demo: The Hg PowerShell Module 5m 13s
—Module Summary 1m 16s
—Get-Help 1m 25s

Expanding PowerShell with Existing Modules
- 26m 23s

—A Toast ... to PowerShell Modules! 5m 10s
—Where You Find PowerShell Modules 3m 45s
—Useful Modules for Software Developers 3m 7s
—Demo: Module Discovery 7m 11s
—Demo: Manual Module Installation 4m 27s
—Module Summary 1m 38s
—Get-Help 1m 5s

Automating Builds with Psake
- 36m 47s

—The nature of the Build 2m 18s
—Installing Psake 2m 55s
—Creating a Psake Build Script 2m 56s
—Running a Psake Build Script 3m 41s
—Documenting a Psake Build Script 1m 5s
—Building Visual Studio Projects 4m 54s
—Tangent: Why Psake > MSBuild 3m 27s
—Demo: The PackageZip Task 2m 47s
—Demo: Configuring the Build 6m 29s
—Demo: Running Psake Builds in TeamCity 3m 15s
—Module Summary 1m 26s
—Get-Help 1m 34s

Automating Visual Studio with StudioShell
- 45m 5s

—Introducing StudioShell 4m 1s
—Exploring Visual Studio Features with StudioShell 6m 37s
—Demo: Configuring Window Layouts 2m 59s
—Demo: Adding Psake Build Menu Items - Overview 5m 4s
—Demo: Adding Psake Build Menu Items 2m 57s
—Demo: Capturing Changes in a Solution Module 4m 24s
—Demo: Conditional Refactoring - Overview 4m 37s
—Demo: Conditional Refactoring - Strategy 8m 41s
—Demo: Conditional Refactoring - Scaling 2m 35s
—Module Summary 1m 0s
—Get-Help 2m 10s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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PowerShell

Visual Studio

Refactoring

Mercurial

MSBuild

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