The Zen of Powershell - PowerShell for the C# dev
summary
A practical guide for C# developers showing concrete PowerShell behaviours and fixes: parameter parsing treats commas create arrays while flags use spaces, .NET method invokes want bracketed argument arrays, and return writes to pipeline so assign or pipe to capture values; distinguish Write-Host vs Write-Output, use Verbose/Debug preferences or CmdletBinding for switches, and watch variable scope requiring script: scope needed for cross-function assignments. Demonstrates Pester tests with mocks, the TestDrive filesystem, code coverage, custom Format XML and a C# PSModule/PSCmdlet integration; demos run after stepwise fixes.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 9:10write some output out to the outside world
- 21:49run all the tests
- 26:04invoke casper from the command line
- 34:50passing in an array of ingredients
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