Writing Compiled PowerShell Cmdlets
summary
Shows how to write compiled PowerShell cmdlets in C# using the .NET Core SDK and VS Code, adding the PowerShell.Standard.Library package, running dotnet new / dotnet build and importing the resulting DLL as a module. Walks through a hello world cmdlet, consuming a provided DLL, a three parallel tasks multithread demo that runs three 5s sleeps in ~5s (not 15s), LINQ examples on ranges of 10 numbers, and adding a cat-fact cmdlet to PowerShell Core and building a local runtime.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 1:24Introduction to Powershell Commandlets in C Sharp
- 10:27Powershell Is a Gateway Language
- 11:07Dependencies
- 11:35.Net Core Sdk
- 12:49Create a New Class Library
- 16:01Hello World Example
- 19:45System Management
- 21:37Inheriting from the Ps Commandlet Class
- 32:23Local Nuget Repository
- 41:21When Should You Use Invoke
- 41:43Invoke Multi-Threading
- 55:35Enumerable Range
- 59:00Union
- 1:13:10Intro To Git and Github
- 1:27:04Powershell Discord
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