Module 1: Tool Design
- Lesson 1: Tools do one thing
- Lesson 2: Tools are flexible
- Lesson 3: Tools look native
Module 2: Start with a Command
- Lesson 1: Why start with a command?
- Lesson 2: Discovery and experimentation
Module 3: Build a Basic Function and Module
- Lesson 1: Start with a basic function
- Lesson 2: Create a script module
- Lesson 3: Check prerequisites
- Lesson 4: Run the new command
Module 4: Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing
- Lesson 1: About CmdletBinding and common parameters
- Lesson 2: Accepting pipeline input
- Lesson 3: Mandatory-ness
- Lesson 4: Parameter validation
- Lesson 5: Parmeter aliases
Module 5: Emitting Objects as Output
- Lesson 1: Assembling information
- Lesson 2: Constructing and emitting output
- Lesson 3: Quick tests
Module 6: Interlude – Changing Your Approach
- Lesson 1: Examining a script
- Lesson 2: Critiquing a script
- Lesson 3: Revising the script
Module 7: Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output
- Lesson 1: Knowing the six channels
- Lesson 2: Adding verbose and warning output
- Lesson 3: Doing more with verbose output
- Lesson 4: Informational output
Module 8: Comment-Based Help
- Lesson 1: Where to put your help
- Lesson 2: Getting started
- Lesson 3: Going further with comment-based help
- Lesson 4: Broken help
Module 9: Handling Errors
- Lesson 1: Understanding errors and exceptions
- Lesson 2: Bad handling
- Lesson 3: Two reasons for exception handling
- Lesson 4: Handling exceptions in our tool
- Lesson 5: Capturing the actual exception
- Lesson 6: Handling exceptions for non-commands
- Lesson 7: Going further with exception handling
- Lesson 8: Deprecated exception handling
Module 10: Basic Debugging
- Lesson 1: Two kinds of bugs
- Lesson 2: The ultimate goal of debugging
- Lesson 3: Developing assumptions
- Lesson 4: Write-Debug
- Lesson 5: Set-PSBreakpoint
- Lesson 6: The PowerShell ISE
Module 11: Going Deeper with Parameters
- Lesson 1: Parameter positions
- Lesson 2: Validation
- Lesson 3: Multiple parameter sets
- Lesson 4: Value from remaining arguments
- Lesson 5: Help messages
- Lesson 6: Aliases
- Lesson 7: More CmdletBinding
Module 12: Writing Full Help
- Lesson 1: External help
- Lesson 2: Using PlatyPs
- Lesson 3: Supporting online help
- Lesson 4: “About” topics
- Lesson 5: Making your help updatable
Module 13: Unit Testing Your Code
- Lesson 1: Sketching out the test
- Lesson 2: Making something to test
- Lesson 3: Expanding the test
- Lesson 4: Going further with Pester
Module 14: Extending Output Types
- Lesson 1: Understanding types
- Lesson 2: The Extensible Type System
- Lesson 3: Extending an object
- Lesson 4: Using Update-TypeData
Module 15: Analyzing Your Script
- Lesson 1: Performing a basic analysis
- Lesson 2: Analyzing the analysis
Module 16: Publishing Your Tools
- Lesson 1: Begin with a manifest
- Lesson 2: Publishing to PowerShell Gallery
- Lesson 3: Publishing to private repositories
Module 17: Basic Controllers: Automation Scripts and Menus
- Lesson 1: Building a menu
- Lesson 2: Using UIChoice
- Lesson 3: Writing a process controller
Module 18: Proxy Functions
- Lesson 1: A proxy example
- Lesson 2: Creating the proxy base
- Lesson 3: Modifying the proxy
- Lesson 4: Adding or removing parameters
Module 19: Working with XML Data
- Lesson 1: Simple: CliXML
- Lesson 2: Importing native XML
- Lesson 3: ConvertTo-XML
- Lesson 4: Creating native XML from scratch
Module 20: Working with JSON Data
- Lesson 1: Converting to JSON
- Lesson 2: Converting from JSON
Module 21: Working with SQL Server Data
- Lesson 1: SQL Server terminology and facts
- Lesson 2: Connecting to the server and database
- Lesson 3: Writing a query
- Lesson 4: Running a query
- Lesson 5: Invoke-SqlCmd
- Lesson 6: Thinking about tool design patterns
Module 22: Final Exam
- Lesson 1: Lab problem
- Lesson 2: Break down the problem
- Lesson 3: Do the design
- Lesson 4: Test the commands
- Lesson 5: Code the tool
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