Scott Hanselman's first couple of videos on Wrox.com have really been popular. I suspect installment number 3 on Windows PowerShell is going to be the most popular installment to date. I have to admit, when I first started watching the complete video (recorded at his beantown.net user group presentation in June) and heard PowerShell, I thought uh-oh, where is this going. I hadn't been paying much attention to PowerShell, thinking it was mostly an admin tool.
Wow, how wrong I am. Scott really dives into some interesting .NET aspects of PowerShell. If you haven't seen this yet, you're going to want to. Sure, there's some great stuff that will be useful to admins (and Scott has tips useful to anyone) but .NET developers - don't ignore PowerShell.
Here's the brief synopsis of this segment of the video.
Time: 30 minutes
Format: Windows Media (.wmv)
Resolution:1024x768
Size: 38MB
Timeline:
Mm:ss
- 00:00 Title
- 00:23 Scott's introduction (repeated from the first video segment)
- 00:55 Let's look at PowerShell
- 02:45 Starting to show some code in PowerShell - "It's .NET at the command line."
- 07:10 PowerShell Type extensions
- 13:40 cd into the registry, files, and more
- 17:00 Calling an existing .NET object (an RSS feed) and putting it in a variable
Oh, and I'm not ignoring Scott's suggestion to try producing the videos in flash too. I'll get to that, just haven't yet. If it works better I'll probably go through and add flash versions to all of them.
BTW, we're only a little more than a month away from you being able to get your hands on the new updated Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition. Scott, Bill, and Devin did a great job adding a ton of new material to this new edition as I've mentioned before. I've got that complete list of major updates mostly done now so I'll post a more complete version of the additions.
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