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	Windows PowerShell in Action Bruce Payette Manning Publications, 2007 - 576 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Windows PowerShell in Action was written by Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. The book enables you to get the most out of the PowerShell environment. Using many examples, both small and large, this book illustrates the features of the language and environment and shows how to compose those features into solutions, quickly and effectively.

This book is designed for anyone who wants to learn PowerShell and use it well. Rather than simply being a book of recipes to read and apply, this book gives you the deep knowledge about how PowerShell works and how to apply it.

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The Powershell Bible

This is the only Powershell book you will ever need - until 2.0 comes out anyhow. Even then, this book builds the groundwork for using Powershell to automate all types of tasks and will be usable far into the future. I've used it to write a couple of Powershell applications so far and it's been worth every penny I paid already. After years of scripting in Windows shell, Perl, and some brief work with VBScript, Powershell is the way to go and this is the guide you need for it.


A master piece, great read and excellent content

I am reading many books about software development. This one is by far the best computer book that I've ever read. It starts of with the basic building blocks of powershell and ends with the Great finale of putting it all together. Wow, wow and wow. It's a feast.

By the way, I love Powershell.

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Excellent Reference - Not for Beginners

The book does an excellent job of detailing PS. I dutifully read through the entire Part 1 (9 of the 13 chapters) and then realized I still could not construct a basic script - the chapters did not build on each other. This was the intent of the author - he clearly states in the intro to Part 2, "Part 1 covered the Powershell language and runtime features in great detail however, those features were discussed mostly in isolation". That sentence right there is what I wished had been quoted in one of these other reviews - read it over again and decide for yourself if this is the book you want.

Unfortunately, Part 2 is not a gentle introduction and it dives into some excellent, but advanced applications of PS. I am more after some baby steps to learn PS (for perspective, I am an intermediate Python/Django/PostgreSQL user, so I'm not talking about computing/programming baby steps, just baby steps in PS).

I am glad I bought the book, but I see now I have to first learn/practice basic PS programming (looping, filtering, calling functions/methods, etc), then I can use this book for advanced detail when I get stuck. Towards that goal, I am having better luck with "Windows Powershell TFM" by Jones/Hicks.

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