In my previous posts in this series I discussed why you should care about PowerShell and I pointed to some resources to help you get started with PowerShell. This post will describe the syntax of the PowerShell language by comparing it with the syntax of C#. Recently the PowerShell language specification was released under the community promise, so if you want to learn everything there is to know about the PowerShell language look it up.…

After getting everybody warmed to the idea of learning PowerShell in part 0 of this series. Let’s dig into a couple of ways to get started with PowerShell. The resource list By now PowerShell has gained so much traction at this moment that I could probably fill several dozen pages with links, pointers to the excellent resources available on-line or in print. However I will refrain myself to a couple starting points.…

Being a big PowerShell fan but not seeing many fellow developers around me use it, I thought PowerShell could use some promotion among .NET developers. This inspired me to start a series of blog posts showing the great stuff PowerShell has to offer .NET developers. The outline I have defined up to now looks like this: Getting started with PowerShell PowerShell as a better shell The syntax of the PowerShell language Listing the Targets in your MSBuild file Getting an overview of your code-base Shutting down the pesky virus scanner with WMI events Looking into your MongoDB data with PowerShell Freeing yourself from xml build languages with psake Testing your .…