Tool Design

• Tools do one thing
• Tools are flexible
• Tools look native

Start with a Command

• Why start with a command
• Discovery and experimentation

Build a Basic Function and Module

• Start with a basic function
• Create a script module
• Check prerequisites
• Run the new command

Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing

• About CmdletBinding and common parameters
• Accepting pipeline input
• Mandatory-ness
• Parameter validation
• Parmeter aliases

Emitting Objects as Output

• Assembling information
• Constructing and emitting output
• Quick tests

An Interlude: Changing Your Approach

• Examining a script
• Critiquing a script
• Revising the script

Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output

• Knowing the six channels
• Adding verbose and warning output
• Doing more with verbose output
• Informational output

Comment-Based Help

• Where to put your help
• Getting started
• Going further with comment-based help
• Broken help

Handling Errors

• Understanding errors and exceptions
  Bad handling
  Two reasons for exception handling
  Handling exceptions in our tool
  Capturing the actual exception
  Handling exceptions for non-commands
  Going further with exception handling
  Deprecated exception handling

Basic Debugging

• Two kinds of bugs
• The ultimate goal of debugging
• Developing assumptions
• Write-Debug
• Set-PSBreakpoint
• The PowerShell ISE

Going Deeper with Parameters

• Parameter positions
• Validation
• Multiple parameter sets
• Value from remaining arguments
• Help messages
• Aliases
• More CmdletBinding

Writing Full Help

• External help
• Using PlatyPs
• Supporting online help
• About topics
• Making your help updatable

Unit Testing Your Code

• Sketching out the test
• Making something to test
• Expanding the test
• Going further with Pester

Extending Output Types

• Understanding types
• The Extensible Type System
• Extending an object
• Using Update-TypeData

Analyzing Your Script

• Performing a basic analysis
• Analyzing the analysis

Publishing Your Tools

• Begin with a manifest
• Publishing to PowerShell Gallery
• Publishing to private repositories

Basic Controllers: Automation Scripts and Menus

• Building a menu
• Using UIChoice
• Writing a process controller

Proxy Functions

• A proxy example
• Creating the proxy base
• Modifying the proxy
• Adding or removing parameters

Working with XML Data

• Simple: CliXML
• Importing native XML
• ConvertTo-XML
• Creating native XML from scratch

Working with JSON Data

• Converting to JSON
• Converting from JSON

Working with SQL Server Data

• SQL Server terminology and facts
• Connecting to the server and database
• Writing a query
• Running a query
• Invoke-SqlCmd
• Thinking about tool design patterns
• Design tools that use SQL Server for data storage

Final Exam

• Lab problem
• Break down the problem
• Do the design
• Test the commands
• Code the tool

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